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Friday 27th October, 2017 #

  • My approach to using z-index
  • How to Read the JFK Assassination Files
  • To Settle Infinity Dispute, a New Law of Logic
  • Aggregate pipeline groups by day but projects a null date
  • Write tests - Not too many - Mostly integration
  • George Clooney calls out 'the other people' involved in Weinstein scandal
  • "It wasn’t just sexual abuse. Everyone got abused. It didn’t really matter how high up you were, you got the same treatment"
  • Corey Feldman launches campaign to expose Hollywood paedophilia
  • Brexit - EU bank may not fully repay UK until 2054
  • Quest to depict CG sperm leads to real biological advances
  • 18 pessimistic opinions on the next 10 years of fake news (and 5 optimistic ones)
  • The Tube Map As You've Never Seen It Before
  • Authentication now comes with a wave of your hand
  • Who Was The Real Fagin?
  • James Comey confirms he is Reinhold Niebuhr on Twitter
  • Bill O’Reilly points finger at “God” after accusations of sexual harassment
  • Statue Of Eros - Does Anyone Know Who It Really Is?
  • London Runs Out Of Pithy Three-Word Names For Bars
  • San Francisco just took a huge step toward internet utopia
  • Fats Domino, RIP
  • The history of the web in 20 seconds
  • Hollywood sex scandal predators go unnamed and unashamed in this week’s tabloids
  • Video Games Are Destroying the People Who Make Them
  • Watch a real rocket scientist figure out (and beat) carnival scams
  • Vintage news blooper of anchor hysterically laughing about a person's tumor removal
  • Tiny RoboBee flies, swims, and launches itself out of water back into the air
  • Young people 'not receiving mental health care they need'
  • A Halloween guide to being scary in six easy steps
  • Australia deputy PM disqualified from office
  • Next German government could revive plan to tackle botnets
  • Luther’s legacy - Did a religious revolt create science?
  • The Register - we are already through the looking glass and down the rabbit hole at this point, so let's see what else Scoble has for us
  • Piccadilly Circus lights switched back on after renovations
  • Whois? No, Whowas: Incoming Euro privacy rules torpedo domain registration system
  • Selma Blair - James Toback threatened to kill me after sexual harassment
  • New Zealand Government to ban foreigners from buying property
  • Iron Maiden - Can I Play With Madness (Official Video)
  • Mapping in HTML - a proposal for a new element
  • Small Asteroid or Comet 'Visits' from Beyond the Solar System
  • Radiolab Presents - More Perfect - American Pendulum I - Korematsu v. United States
  • Suicide Linux
  • We made a bot that hunts bots
  • Twitter decides to ban advertising from all accounts owned by Russia Today and Sputnik and will donate estimated $1.9M earnings since 2011 to misinfo research 
  • Can Flies Actually Fly in a Vacuum Chamber?
  • Pope's tough question for International Space Station crew
  • JFK assassination - Trump declassifies some documents
  • Catalan crisis - Regional MPs debate Spain takeover bid
  • Trump - Opioid 'national shame' a public health emergency