h2g2bob @h2g2bob@mastodon.dbatley.com

The UK's covid rules are made law (with minimal review) as Statutory Instruments, which you can read online https://statutoryinstruments.parliament.uk/ #ukpol

Space Rogue goes to the Polls
https://www.spacerogue.net/wordpress/?p=681

Map showing wealth and poverty in the UK (index of multiple deprivation)
https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2019/10/index-of-multiple-deprivation.html #map #london

Cryptography: a number station was less random than expected https://www.mattblaze.org/blog/neinnines/

London's biggest circles
https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2020/02/londons-largest-circles.html #london

More coronavirus testing means more positive tests, so can we make any comparisons with the spring? Nothing beats putting numbers in a spreadsheet and giving it a go! https://dbatley.com/blog/2020/09/covid-population-rates.html #covid

Congo red and other colours
https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/02/26/congo-red #chemisty

An interesting prediction: "By 2030, half of the UK adult population will be vegan." Disagree? Challenge for the prestige (as the money goes to charity!) https://longbets.org/845/

Fine-tuning versus naturalness in scientific theories
https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/fine-tuning-versus-naturalness #science

Phosphine, Life, and Venus
https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/09/15/phosphine-life-and-venus

Tonight is the Ig Nobel prize ceremony, a celebration of the most interesting scientific discoveries of our age. 11pm London time (6pm New York time) https://www.improbable.com/ig-about/the-30th-first-annual-ig-nobel-prize-ceremony/​

2020 Elections in New Jersey; everyone gets a mail-in ballot https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2020/09/12/voting-by-mail-in-nj-2020/

This Thursday at 11pm London time is the 30th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize, streamed live on the Internet. Previously: magnetized cockroaches, spilling coffee and the personalities of rocks. https://www.improbable.com/ig-about/the-30th-first-annual-ig-nobel-prize-ceremony/

How to not encrypt - Matt Blaze on police radios in the US https://www.mattblaze.org/blog/p25/

How sun-dried tomatoes are made https://youtu.be/G6R21t4jWLUb

.local domains can be resolved by multicast dns, either with avahi or libnss-mdns http://www.enricozini.org/blog/2019/himblick/multicast-dns #networking

The XKCD Map Age flowchart helped me date this globe https://xkcd.com/1688/

Fairtrade means growers get a fair price for tea, coffee and chocolate https://www.fairtrade.net/about/how-fairtrade-works