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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

Encouraging News About Coronavirus Immunity
https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/08/18/encouraging-news-about-coronavirus-immunity

The adorable ABCs of Particle Physics - elementary particles have never been more cute
https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/particle-physics-abcs/phone/index.html #physics

Chrome does not have tracking protection
https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2019/08/23/deconstructing-googles-excuses-on-tracking-protection/ #internet

Only one company is able to grow defect-free crystals used for graphene research https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2019/08/27/the-one-source-of-perfect-crystals #chemistry

Less CSRF, more SameSite cookies
https://scotthelme.co.uk/csrf-is-really-dead/ #webdev

Which countries are most densely populated?
https://ourworldindata.org/world-population-growth#which-countries-are-most-densely-populated

LibreOffice Personal Edition, and making sure the developers get paid https://lwn.net/Articles/825598/

Debugging an airplane
http://austinmeyer.com/2019/10/23/when-is-a-pt-6-like-a-barbeque/

Some thoughts on who we are
https://lustigletter.blogspot.com/2020/08/some-thoughts-on-who-we-are.html #ukpol