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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- Extinction Rebellion protest: Jim Davidson blasts 'horrid' demonstrators in angry tirade | Evening Standard
Anything that pisses Jim Davidson off is an inherently noble act.
- 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.