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Becoming Atheist: Humanism and the Secular West | Reviews in History: Russel Blackford reviews a book about the social history of atheism in the 20th Century in the West, looking especially at the gender differences in how interviewees expressed their reasons for leaving religion.
(tags: atheism history gender russell-blackford)
The Evolution of Trust: Interactive exploration of repeated Prisoner’s dilemma type games, where you can play with payoffs and strategies.
(tags: trust game mathematics maths)
Broadpwn: Remotely Compromising Android and iOS via a Bug in Broadcom’s Wi-Fi Chipsets | Exodus Intelligence: Broadcom kicking it old school: “In order to facilitate patching, an extensive thunk table is used in RAM, and calls are made into that table at specific points during execution. Should a bug fix be issued, the thunk table could be changed to redirect to the newer code.”
(tags: android wifi broadcom broadpwn security)
Circles Sines and Signals – Introduction: Some nice graphics introducing the Discrete Fourier Transform.
(tags: learning fourier-transform signal dsp)

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Bit Twiddling Hacks: A collection of code snippets for doing useful things (sign extension, determine whether a number is a power of two, and so on).
(tags: bit-twiddling programming algorithms c hacks twiddling)
Anti-Brexit traitors outed on twitter: UKIP voters in “shit thick” shocker. Also features Louise Mensch.
(tags: twitter ukip funny brexit satire)
Horse! | Start here: See horse, Say Horse! – The Rules of Horse!: Horse!
(tags: funny game horse)

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What We Can Learn from the Paris Attacks (Without Ignoring the Elephant in the Room): Yep, this is more or less what I think.
(tags: paris terrorism islam islamism religion politics)
What is emotional labor?: A term that once described jobs where being friendly and cheerful was seen as part of the job has apparently been co-opted to mean “someone expects me to do something”.
(tags: emotion labour work relationships)
Guide to software developer job advertisements: andrewducker: Seems legit.
(tags: software software-engineering jobs adverts careers)
My first 10 day Vipassana retreat: Not *my* retreat. Some bloke’s. It’s an interesting article about the experience though.
(tags: meditation buddhism mindfulness retreat)
An alias for when you really need it done…: I’m totally setting this up.
(tags: funny computers unix sudo)
The Deadlock Empire: A nice little web game where you try to break a threaded program by executing a critical section in two threads at once. It’s pretty neat.
(tags: programming threads concurrency locks game)

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