April 2009
17 posts
The Collyer Brothers : clusterflock →
Crazy early 20th century hoarders.
Skew, The Frontend Engineer's Misery @ Irrational... →
“man, too true”
Literacy in America →
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Man. Read more, people.
Below Basic: no more than the most simple and concrete literacy skills Basic: can perform simple and everyday literacy activities Intermediate: can…
BaconCamp: the Bacone →
Why NPR is Thriving (They’re Not Afraid of Digital... →
"PSD is not my favourite file format" →
Now that is a good use of file comments.
F-Secure says stop using Adobe Acrobat Reader →
Sound advice. Haven’t used it in years.
$7 An Hour To Sit In A Gin And Tonic Mist →
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Wow. When actually drinking your booze is just too much work.
We’ve already featured a gin and tonic fog room before, but that was part of an art installation, and this…
Our Psychotropic Lives →
Article about the book “On Deep History and the Brain” by Daniel Smail, which argues that human evolution and drug-induced stimuli may be more closely related than we think.
rev=canonical →
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wisdom.
I have a few things to say about the rev=canonical proposal:
The canonical link relation is defined to be same-origin. That does not work well for what people want…
State goes after legendary all-ages music clubs →
Bullshit.
The Ultimate Con-Job: Sold into Slavery in Dubai →
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You mean a country with a dubious human rights record is abusing workers? Shocked.
An incredible article over at the Independent. It’s quite long, but investigative journalism at…
SR-71 Break-Up →
Incredible story of a Lockheed test pilot surviving a total plane disintegration.
Study: surfing the Internet at work boosts... →
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ah ha!
Workers are more productive when they are able to occasionally do non-work stuff online, researchers at the University of Melbourne have found. Dr. Brent Coker…
goopymart: if i die by spontaneous combustion one... →
Boohbah Zone →
I… I have no words to describe this.