Linkdump 23-11-2018

• How Do You Test Out A New Look? Dating Apps! | Application Science 
  Dude uses A/B testing and Tinder to determine the attractiveness of his beard. With graphs. TLDR: beards are awesome.
  (tags: dataisbeautiful nerd tech relationships )
• Fake Britain: A Map Of Fictional Locations | Londonist 
  Includes Leadworth, Scarfolk, Qwghlm, Beanotown, and, of course, Llareggub, but is unaccountably lacking in Little Bazeley and Little-Storping-in-the-Swuff, and I was hoping that it might finally tell me where the Village is.
  (tags: maps britishness silly literature incrediblyobscurereference tv natureoftruth )
• Are Pop Lyrics Getting More Repetitive? | The Pudding 
  Pithier. They're getting pithier. This article, while awesome, seems to suffer from the common delusion that repetition in music is somehow undesirable. It's called 'melody' and it's kinda fundamental. Go count the number of times Beethoven said "da da da dum" and then get back to me about repetition in music.
  (tags: music dataisbeautiful nerd )
• Video Games In East Germany: The Stasi Played Along | ZEIT online 
  Happy teenage memories of respite from the daily drudgery of life under an autocratic regime. pew pew
  (tags: gaming history coldwardinosaur computing tech nerd socialism )
• Extinction Rebellion protest: Jim Davidson blasts 'horrid' demonstrators in angry tirade | Evening Standard 
  Anything that pisses Jim Davidson off is an inherently noble act.
  (tags: ecology activism news climate )
• Why 536 was ‘the worst year to be alive’ | Science 
  Unless you were alive during the Younger Dryas impact, or the Toba Catastrophe, or the Late Bronze Age Collapse.
  (tags: history archaeology science doom )