These are my old links. I now keep them with pinboard (see my pinboard bookmarks) and archive them on this site (see the Links page).
Categories
- Unclassified
- Science and Technology
- Sandbox - Links I've not read yet but look potentially good.
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- National Statistics Online – Official UK statistics.
- YAPH: Management Techniques – Management Techniques of the Bottom 95% of U.S. Corporations. I was going to put this in the Junk Links, but these "techniques" are unfortuately being used by crap companies.
- The Brights' Net – A movement to address the problem whereby the naturalistic worldview is insufficiently expressed within most cultures, even politically/socially repressed.
- Martial Arts Videos – Martial arts videos. For example, Aikido videos.
- You've got to find what you love – The text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005.
- The Complete Works of William Shakespeare – The complete works of Shakespeare in html format.
- similarminds.com – Personality (and intelligence) tests and tools.
- irrepressible.info – An Amnesty International campaign. Sign a pledge on Internet freedom, undermine censorship by posting fragments of censored material on your own site and write to the Chinese government to help free the journalist Shi Tao.
- Retouch – Fascinating illustration of the retouching that will be done to a model's photograph. I believe it was commissioned by the Swedish Ministry of Health and Social Affairs. The top level page is here
- Could Google be involved in the copyright case of the century? – An article about the copyright infringement lawsuit brought about by the US Authors Guild against Google.
- Rob Manuel – A blog from Rob Manuel, one of the founders of B3TA.
- The Happiness Formula – Why being happy is so important. In particular, see Happiness and public policy.
- geeklawyer.org – Articles about law. They've also got an interesting blog.
- Animated Engines – Animations of common engines, like the 4-stroke, 2-stroke, jet, locomotive, etc.
- 0 eCard Sites To Stay Away From This Mother’s Day – The reason why you should sign up for as little as possible online.
- Here's to Beer – All about beer.
- Strandbeest – Giant wind powered walking skeletal machines, made by Theo Jansen.
- Flash Earth – Browse planet Earth using a different interface to Google's data.
- The Gateway To Astronaut Photography – Online collection of astronaut photographs of the Earth.
- Cloud Appreciation Society – A society whos manifesto begins "We believe that clouds are unjustly maligned and that life would be immeasurably poorer without them".
- The Consumerist – Shoppers bite back.
- Blair's Folly – Why ID cards should not be introduced in the UK.
- Sex 'cuts public speaking stress' – Having sex may be the best way to prepare for giving a speech
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- Unintelligent Design – Why viruses may have been the precursors of all life on Earth. This article also serves as a basic introduction to viruses and types of microscopic life.
- No paradox for time travellers – Article from 2005 that suggests time travel paradoxes may be ruled out by the laws of quantum physics. The source paper is here: Quantum Theory Looks at Time Travel.
- Womb environment 'makes men gay' – Interesting finding that supports a prenatal origin to sexual orientation development in men. i.e. nature over nurture.
- Improbable Research – Informing you about the weird and wonderful world of scientific research. They also administer the Ig Nobel Prizes.
- Geekologie – Blog about techy stuff.
- Evolutionary Timeline – Timeline from first life-forms to homo sapiens.
- No-Contact Jacket – A wearable defensive jacket created to aid women in their struggle for protection from violence.
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Links I've not read yet but look potentially good.
- EcoGeek – Blog about echo-friendly technology.
- Hooking Up: Protective Pairing for Punks – Advice from the Stop Prison Rape organisation, written for incarcerated heterosexual male survivors of prisoner rape, suggseting 'pairing up' as a method for avoiding rape!
- World's First Fuel Cell Motorcycle Unveiled – World's First Fuel Cell Motorcycle Unveiled
- Typed too fast? Google profits from your typo – How Google is making millions of dollars a year by filling otherwise unused Web sites with ads.
- The Disability Rights Commission – An independent body established in April 2000 by Act of Parliament to stop discrimination and promote equality of opportunity for disabled people.
