Links

[redfiona99]

Comics:

Unmasking the hidden comic book heroes - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-34226071

Miscellaneous:

Guy Makes Custom Thor Hammer That Only He Can Lift - http://twistedsifter.com/videos/guy-makes-custom-thor-hammer-that-only-he-can-lift/

Miscellaneous:

Britain's oldest rollercoaster Scenic Railway reopens - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-34533231

In which Gandini juggling continue to be amazing - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MfJVROQy8Q

Dog helps Isle of Wight couple double Euromillions win - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-34529519

A Stock Market Trading Game - http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015-stock-chart-trading-game/

Tracing the history of the popularity of a varity of first names in Moscow - https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/3phdnh/popularity_of_names_in_moscow_russia/

The multi-million pound business started as a laugh- http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-34504174

The polar bears are coming to town - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-34490185

Visual Information Theory - http://colah.github.io/posts/2015-09-Visual-Information/

A dozen notorious crimes - the evidence that helped solve them - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-34464509

5 things TV crime dramas get wrong - http://happyeverafter.usatoday.com/2015/05/20/allison-leotta-a-good-killing-unrealistic-tv-crime-dramas/

Auto-Generating Clickbait With Recurrent Neural Networks - http://larseidnes.com/2015/10/13/auto-generating-clickbait-with-recurrent-neural-networks/

Photography:

How your life story is told by your hands - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-34452745

Religion:

Faith, hope and Call of Duty: 21st century spirituality - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-34549270

Science:

The Most Mysterious Star in Our Galaxy - http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2015/10/the-most-interesting-star-in-our-galaxy/410023/ Extra mysterious as The Atlantic haven't deigned to mention its name in the article.

The Rising Placebo Effect - http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2015/10/15/the-rising-placebo-effect

Why hasn't the US eradicated the plague? - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-34398099 Warning, icky picture at the beginning

Sports:

Cycling:

Six-day racing: Madisons, mayhem and the Ministry of Sound - http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/cycling/34523115

Football:

Manchester United stars Neville and Giggs tell hotel squatters: stay for winter - http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/oct/18/former-manchester-united-star-occupiers-of-hotel-winter-ryan-giggs-gary-neville Or damn it, I might have to be nice about Red Nev and Giggsy.

Forlan names Paul Scholes as 'best I ever played with' - http://www.eurosport.co.uk/football/premier-league/2015-2016/forlan-names-paul-scholes-as-best-i-ever-played-with_sto4950048/story.shtml mostly for thedevilchicken

Newcastle United - A blessed club with the most damned fans? - http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/34520083 or a peculiar existential hell that several sportsfan will recognise.

Technology:

If You’re Not Paranoid, You’re Crazy: As government agencies and tech companies develop more and more intrusive means of watching and influencing people, how can we live free lives? - http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/11/if-youre-not-paranoid-youre-crazy/407833/ via nwhyte and definitely being used in my 'I'm not crazy, GCHQ are watching me' defence.

How Machines Learn (And You Win) - https://hbr.org/2015/11/how-machines-learn-and-you-win

Her Code Got Humans on the Moon—And Invented Software Itself - http://www.wired.com/2015/10/margaret-hamilton-nasa-apollo/ via nwhyte

Sorry, ad blockers: German news site Bild says nein - http://www.pcworld.com/article/2992434/browsers/sorry-ad-blockers-german-news-site-bild-says-nein.html Now this is interesting. I mean, I don't mind ads because they pay for content so I don't have an ad-blocker and I can see why Bild and other papers might do this.

Theatre:

Music writing masterclass: Bernard Levin and the Wexford lemon juice - http://jessicamusic.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/music-writing-masterclass-bernard-levin.html?m=1 via nwhyte and to be saved for cheering people up on a rainy day.

Arthur Miller: A hundred years young - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-34538558

Comments

[lilacsigil.livejournal.com]

I use ad blockers because I have chronic vertigo, and fast moving or flashing ads are a trigger for that. I'm still pissed that the one newspaper I do subscribe to online STILL has ads! I don't think it's unreasonable for sites to pay for their content via advertising, but there is an accessibility issue as well. If I could guarantee no pop-ups, no flashing and no sudden movements, I would whitelist. But this just doesn't happen.

[redfiona99.livejournal.com]

Thanks for replying because I've just realised I missed the end off that sentence. That'll teach me to post late at night ;)

I do almost wish (although I know there'd be no way of doing it) that there was an official medical grounds ad-block that would be white-listed by websites, and that it'd only be other ad-blockers that were counter-blocked.