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Google Tech TalksJuly 23, 2007ABSTRACTMerlin Mann, a well known productivity guru and creator of the popular 43 folders website will talk about Getting Thing...

"One can easily see Trotsky at Burning Man."

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the website of writer and philosopher Julian Baggini

Things hid and barr'd from common sense

The LP is out on March 1st via Warp.

Modern culture whispers in your ears. If you listen closely, you can hear it everywhere. In ads on the Internet. From parents and coaches. From professors, politicians, and preachers. Be an entrepr…

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Are database benchmarks still relevant ? Let's understand why it's a poor way to choose a database.

Dmitry.GR: A successful experiment in running real Linux on an 8-bit AVR.

Nice language, but unsuitable for most professional purposes

It's a C test. If you think you know C, take this test. It only has 5 questions.

An online book about collision detection using Processing.

It’s like a novel, Mary McCarthy observed of the completed edition of The Origins of Totalitarianism. Arendt and McCarthy had clashed in 1945 when they first met at a New York party hosted by Parti…

In 1990, the American economist Paul Samuelson wrote, “I don’t care who writes a nation’s laws—or crafts its advanced treaties—if I can write its economics textbooks.” Samuelson’s Economics, first …

The legendary cultural critic on finding a life’s work.

A track made while waiting for a ride to a festival is the latest world-conquering Joy O anthem.

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Developer Roy Longbottom, who has been personally benchmarking computer systems large and small for more than 50 years, has published a look at how the venerable Cray-1 supercomputer stacks up agai…

Everything you need to know about making a career at 37signals.

Is ATC getting harder to understand?

I'm stuck in 1999 on GeoCities! I've made this time portal so you future people can visit my site.

Long ago, in a parallel universe three doors down and one to the left of our own, OpenAI headquarters found itself in chaos. A klaxon blared overhead as red lights began flashing. A message played over a loud-speaker: “Warning! Warning! This is not a drill! Artificial General Intelligence window closing!

One question that routinely comes up in genealogy research: why is the family’s surname different from its (presumed) original form? Most people have heard one explanation: those names were “changed at Ellis Island,” altered either maliciously or ignorantly by port officials when the immigrant passed through. The charge against immigration officials, however, is provably false: no names were written down at Ellis Island, and thus no names were changed there. The names of arriving passengers were already written down on manifests required by the federal government, lists which crossed the ocean with the passengers. Records kept by the government demonstrate conclusively that immigrants left Ellis Island with the same surnames they had arrived with. The idea that names were changed at the point of entry is a myth, an urban legend promoted by a popular film. Changes were made later, by the immigrants themselves, usually during the naturalization process.

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"How the internet reshaped itself around Google’s search algorithms — and into a world where websites look the same."

"Tech and the liberal arts have always been at war. Don’t assume Silicon Valley will win."