Interesting Links for 13-07-2017

[andrewducker]

How video encoding works (a very simple introduction) (tags: video Technology ) The touching effect of putting an autistic hero into a computer game (tags: games diversity autism ) Overwatch: Bigger than the Premier League? (No. But people are trying...) (tags: games sports money competition ) Is Decentralized Storage Sustainable? (tags: design storage internet economics decentralisation ) Greening announces 'evidence champion' for schools (tags: Education ) Pthalates linked to chronic disease in men (tags: pthalates plastic disease ) Government refuses to release report into Saudi Arabia’s funding of Islamist extremism in UK (tags: saudiarabia terrorism politics uk ) Inside the World of Chinese Bitcoin ‘Mining’ (Some great photos) (tags: bitcoin china ) At 56, a ‘Light Bulb’ Goes Off and a Firefighter Emerges (tags: fire age life ) The British View the War of 1812 Quite Differently Than Americans Do As a Brit I have to admit that I had no idea that there _was_ a war with America in 1812
(tags: war uk usa france canada history ) The Facebook Algorithm Mom Problem (tags: facebook algorithm mother OhForFucksSake fail ) Radiohead releases a surprise ZX Spectrum program for OK Computer anniversary (tags: music software ) Visa To Pay Restaurants To Stop Taking Cash (tags: restaurant money Technology ) A Kingdom for a Horse: Kokpar and the Future of Kazakhstan “There are no Kazakhs,” he says. “Stalin made us up.”
(tags: kazakhstan horses ) Scientists replay movie encoded in DNA (tags: dna genetics movies ) "I think I am becoming accustomed to the sight of guns." (tags: guns society UK France Scotland ) Unix Time 1,500M - Friday July 14 02:40GMT (tags: time unix thefuture ) New corporate criminal offences of failure to prevent tax evasion effective from 30 September (tags: law tax uk ) Post-apocalyptic Dilbert (tags: dilbert apocalypse comic ) Original post on Dreamwidth - there are
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