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Staying on Top – Daily Morning Review Routine with OmniFocus
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march 2011 by jtth

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Philip Guo - Geek behaviors present during conversations

This article presents some common behaviors I've observed from my past few years of interactions with geeks, nerds, and other highly-smart technical people. For brevity, I will simply use the term "geek" throughout this article as a catch-all term for such people. I don't mean to pass any value judgments on people who exhibit such behaviors; these are simply my observations and personal theories for why these behaviors occur

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january 2010 by jtth

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A Day In The Life Of Hines Ward - Behind the Steel Curtain

4:47 AM Hines wakes form a dream of broken linebackers and corners in wheel Chairs. The words, "Hark, someone is in trouble", are uttered.

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january 2010 by jtth

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Everything You Want To Know About The Most Secretive Startup In The World (Next Jump)

In the annals of stealth startups, Next Jump deserves its own chapter. It’s not often that a company can build a large and successful business for 15 years, raise $45 million in venture capital, hire 225 people, and sign up 60 percent of the Fortune 500 as customers without anybody ever hearing about it. Yet that is exactly what Next Jump did until the first story ever written about the company appeared in the New York Times last month. The $45 million came over the course of 8 rounds and all from angel investors, including early Google investor Ram Shriramand Deutsche Bank asset management chief Kevin Parker (who are both board members).

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january 2010 by jtth

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The Wagnerian Method § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM

Composers generally cope with this problem by writing lyrics for sopranos that are not essential to their operas’ plots. But Smith and Wolfe began to wonder whether some hadn’t found a better solution. They realized that composers could actually avoid the problem completely by pairing words with notes at which the vowel sounds resonated naturally in a singer’s mouth. Smith saw Wagner—a perfectionist notorious for writing long and demanding soprano roles—as an obvious candidate on which he and Wolfe could test their theory.

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january 2010 by jtth

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Another Antimatter Supernova Discovered | Universe Today

The star Y-155 was a whopping large star, with a mass of over 200 times that of our Sun. In these types of stars, energetic gamma rays can be created by the intense heat in the core of the star. These gamma rays in turn make pairs of electrons and positrons, or antimatter pairs. Since so much energy goes to the creation of these pairs, the pressure pushing outwards on the star weakens, and gravity swoops in to collapse the star, generating a supernova of enormous proportions.

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january 2010 by jtth

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The Card Game - How Visa, Using Fees Behind Its Debit Card, Dominates a Market - Series - NYTimes.com

Every day, millions of Americans stand at store checkout counters and make a seemingly random decision: after swiping their debit card, they choose whether to punch in a code, or to sign their name. It is a pointless distinction to most consumers, since the price is the same either way. But behind the scenes, billions of dollars are at stake.

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january 2010 by jtth

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Gmail and Google Apps Account Hacked But Restored Soon After
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december 2009 by jtth

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Print: Gladwell for Dummies

The best book report ever written.

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november 2009 by jtth

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A defense of jaywalking. - By Tom Vanderbilt - Slate Magazine

A historical look at jaywalking.

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november 2009 by jtth

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The Encultured Brain: Why Neuroanthropology? Why Now? « Neuroanthropology

Neuroanthropology places the brain and nervous system at the center of discussions about human nature, recognizing that much of what makes us distinctive inheres in the size, specialization, and dynamic openness of the human nervous system. By starting with neural physiology and its variability, neuroanthropology situates itself from the beginning in the interaction of nature and culture, the inextricable interweaving of developmental unfolding and evolutionary endowment.

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october 2009 by jtth

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How does the music-identifying app Shazam work its magic? - By Farhad Manjoo - Slate Magazine

The company is also planning to add a lot more services to its apps—a recommendations engine, a way to let you share your musical tastes with your friends, and charts that show the songs that people are searching for. Every Monday, Shazam sends out its charts to record labels, and execs have been known to sign artists based on the data. This has led to a new way for artists to break into the mainstream: getting featured in TV ads. In 2005, for instance, Volkswagen ran an ad in Europe for the Golf GTI that featured a remixed version of "Singin' in the Rain" by Mint Royale. The song inspired a lot of searching on Shazam—and prompted the band's label to release the track, which then shot to the top of the European charts. "We probably see that at least once a month around the world," Fisher says. In other words, Shazam doesn't only help an audience find music. Sometimes it helps music find an audience.

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october 2009 by jtth

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Why I Slept with 1300 Women | OPEN Magazine

The affections of a woman have to be won through the peacock dance of success and refinement, or through the deceit of lies. And then sustained for years through many strange virtues, or more lies. The price of love, above all, is monogamy. One man decided to break free. And he slept with over 1,300 women paying them over £115,000. This is his story.

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october 2009 by jtth

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Surprises in Mathematics and Theory « Gödel’s Lost Letter and P=NP
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september 2009 by jtth

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The Font War: Ikea Fans Fume over Switch to Verdana - TIME
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september 2009 by jtth

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A Guide to Alternative Handwriting and Shorthand Systems

The letters you are now reading, while well adapted to the eye to be read, are so ill adapted to the hand to be written that schools teach longhand as an alternative to printing them. The more cursive longhand is easy to learn, but only about 10% faster than printing. Alternative handwriting systems offer 100% or better improvements in handwriting ease and speed. If you could spend the rest of your life taking notes or keeping a journal/diary while writing two or three times faster, then, gee, why not?

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august 2009 by jtth

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FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: Not All Socialist Countries are Alike

Breakdown of the difference between "Single-payer" and "socialized healthcare" between Canada and the UK.

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august 2009 by jtth

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Security Camera Hack Conceals Heists Behind Dummy Video | Threat Level | Wired.com
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august 2009 by jtth

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F-Shaped Pattern For Reading Web Content (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)

F for fast. That's how users read your precious content. In a few seconds, their eyes move at amazing speeds across your website’s words in a pattern that's very different from what you learned in school.

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july 2009 by jtth

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Unqualified Reservations: Wolfram Alpha and hubristic user interfaces

My guess is that if there is any "next thing" in search interfaces, it will come not from smarter UIs, but from dumber ones in which the user does more work - the Graffiti effect. If a small quantity of user effort can produce a substantial improvement in user experience (which is a big if), the user will accept the bargain. Hey, it made Jeff Hawkins rich.

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july 2009 by jtth

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The Learjet repo man | Salon News
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june 2009 by jtth

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Annals of Innovation: How David Beats Goliath: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker

Davids win all the time. The political scientist Ivan Arreguín-Toft recently looked at every war fought in the past two hundred years between strong and weak combatants. The Goliaths, he found, won in 71.5 per cent of the cases. That is a remarkable fact. Arreguín-Toft was analyzing conflicts in which one side was at least ten times as powerful—in terms of armed might and population—as its opponent, and even in those lopsided contests the underdog won almost a third of the time.

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june 2009 by jtth

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Heavy Rain at E3: personal, third-person journey into hell - Ars Technica

Exploring, trying different things, and accepting the outcomes are all part of the game. "There's no such thing as failure or winning or losing, you're creating a story. We have four characters, and any one of them can die at any point, and the story continues. It's just that character's storyline has been removed from your story." There will be autosaves, and if you fall into an outcome that bothers you, it's possible to go back and replay it. The hope is that you'll just come to terms with having a dark story, and not use the auto-save often. So what happens if everyone dies? "You haven't failed. You've created a tragedy," Piaseckyz told me.

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june 2009 by jtth

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Personal Health - Program Tries to Identify Problem Drinkers Before Problems Start - NYTimes.com

Most people who drink alcohol are not alcoholics and never will be. But the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism knows all too well that millions of Americans drink in amounts or patterns that put them at risk of developing a dependence on alcohol and having to face the attendant medical, legal and social problems.

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may 2009 by jtth

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Electrical stimulation produces feelings of free will : Not Exactly Rocket Science

Nerves in the limb send messages back to your brain, but the subjective experience you have of stretching isn't due to these signals. The feeling that you willed your arm into motion, and the realisation that you moved it at all, are both the result of an area at the back of your brain called the posterior parietal cortex. This region helped to produce the intention to move, and predicted what the movement would feel like, all before you twitched a single muscle.

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may 2009 by jtth

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Security Fix - ZeusTracker and the Nuclear Option

But try telling that to Roman Hüssy, a 21-year-old Swiss information technology expert, who last month witnessed a collection of more than 100,000 hacked Microsoft Windows systems tearing themselves apart at the command of their cyber criminal overlords.

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may 2009 by jtth

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Chemical 'caterpillar' points to electronics-free robots - tech - 28 April 2009 - New Scientist
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may 2009 by jtth

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graphpaper.com - Who Watches the Watchman?
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may 2009 by jtth

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Exclusive: 'Aqua Teen Hunger Force' live-action episode, starring T-Pain as the Fryman | PopWatch Blog | EW.com

But even if the show is starting to show its age, you gotta hand it to these stoners for continuing to come up with weird-ass stuff, like the upcoming live-action episode on May 31, which stars T-Pain as Frylock (pictured). Apparently, Pain is a huge fan of the show (he often wears an Ignignokt pendant around his neck and actually did the voice for the "Die" ventriloquist dummy for the "Dummy Love" ep) so he was more than happy to wear his signature stovepipe hat in french-fry yellow for the part.

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may 2009 by jtth

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IU Bloomington and IUPUI to host free electronic waste recycling days: IU News Room: Indiana University

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Electronic Waste Collection Days, a free electronic waste recycling drive hosted by Indiana University Bloomington and Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, will take place in both Bloomington and Indianapolis on April 30 through May 2.

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april 2009 by jtth

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IU's Hofstadter among elite group named 2009 Academy of Arts and Sciences fellows: IU News Room: Indiana University

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Pulitzer Prize winning author and Indiana University College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Science Douglas Hofstadter has been elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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april 2009 by jtth

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Oracle Agrees to Acquire Sun Microsystems - NYTimes.com

The Oracle Corporation, the technology information company, announced Monday that it would acquire a rival, Sun Microsystems, for $9.50 a share, or about $7.4 billion.

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april 2009 by jtth

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idsnews.com | Indiana Daily Student |
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april 2009 by jtth

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etalog: Psychology research with Mechanical Turk

With Mechanical Turk, it's possible to do in one shot a study that would otherwise require a meta-analysis of several studies across particular locations or demographics. With more consistent data and larger populations, data can be reusable.

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april 2009 by jtth

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Bike rally to raise funds for nonprofit - tmnews.com

Critical-mass in BEDFORD, of all places.

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april 2009 by jtth

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Prints Show a Modern Foot in Prehumans - NYTimes.com

Footprints uncovered in Kenya show that as early as 1.5 million years ago an ancestral species, almost certainly Homo erectus, had already evolved the feet and walking gait of modern humans.

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february 2009 by jtth

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It’s Not Going to Be OK : Information

How will we cope with our decline? Will we cling to the absurd dreams of a superpower and a glorious tomorrow or will we responsibly face our stark new limitations? Will we heed those who are sober and rational, those who speak of a new simplicity and humility, or will we follow the demagogues and charlatans who rise up out of the slime in moments of crisis to offer fantastic visions? Will we radically transform our system to one that protects the ordinary citizen and fosters the common good, that defies the corporate state, or will we employ the brutality and technology of our internal security and surveillance apparatus to crush all dissent? We won't have to wait long to find out.

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february 2009 by jtth

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Voodoo Correlations: Have the Results of Some Brain Scanning Experiments Been Overstated?: Scientific American

VUL: We use that term as a humorous way to describe mysteriously high correlations produced by complicated statistical methods (which usually were never clearly described in the scientific papers we examined)—and which turn out unfortunately to yield some very misleading results. The specific issue we focus on, which is responsible for a great many mysterious correlations, is something we call “non-independent” testing and measurement of correlations. Basically, this involves inadvertently cherry-picking data and it results in inflated estimates of correlations.

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february 2009 by jtth

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Gulf Oil States Seeking a Lead in Clean Energy - NYTimes.com

The crown prince of Abu Dhabi, the wealthiest of the seven emirates that make up the United Arab Emirates, announced last January that he would invest $15 billion in renewable energy. That is the same amount that President-elect Obama has proposed investing — in the entire United States — “to catalyze private sector efforts to build a clean energy future.”

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january 2009 by jtth

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Diary of a Self-Help Dropout: Flirting With the 4-Hour Workweek

Allen, Morgenstern, and Ferriss are a nicely compatible family unit: David Allen is the practical dad who reminds you not to overcomplicate things; just get the job done. Julie Morgenstern is the encouraging mom who, while hugging you, says, "It'll be all right; you just need to focus on what's important here." And Tim Ferriss is the upstart kid who cries, "Think outside the box, man!"

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december 2008 by jtth

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Bill Higgins :: the Uncanny Valley of user interface design

There’s a lesson here for software designers, and one that I’ve talked about recently - we must ensure that we design our applications to remain consistent with the environment in which our software runs. In more concrete terms: a Windows application should look and feel like a Windows application, a Mac application should look and feel like a Mac application, and a web application should look and feel like a web application.

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december 2008 by jtth

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Technology helps Santa make magic, scientist says - Yahoo! News
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december 2008 by jtth

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Damn Interesting » On the Origin of Circuits

It seems that evolution had not merely selected the best code for the task, it had also advocated those programs which took advantage of the electromagnetic quirks of that specific microchip environment. The five separate logic cells were clearly crucial to the chip's operation, but they were interacting with the main circuitry through some unorthodox method– most likely via the subtle magnetic fields that are created when electrons flow through circuitry, an effect known as magnetic flux. There was also evidence that the circuit was not relying solely on the transistors' absolute ON and OFF positions like a typical chip; it was capitalizing upon analogue shades of gray along with the digital black and white.

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december 2008 by jtth

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NumberSpiral.com - Home

Really cool number spiral play.

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december 2008 by jtth

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C++ FQA Lite: Defective C++

This page summarizes the major defects of the C++ programming language (listing all minor quirks would take eternity). To be fair, some of the items by themselves could be design choices, not bugs. For example, a programming language doesn't have to provide garbage collection. It's the combination of the things that makes them all problematic. For example, the lack of garbage collection makes C++ exceptions and operator overloading inherently defective. Therefore, the problems are not listed in the order of "importance" (which is subjective anyway - different people are hit the hardest by different problems). Instead, most defects are followed by one of their complementary defects, so that when a defect causes a problem, the next defect in the list makes it worse.

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december 2008 by jtth

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Drugs uncovered: The link between drugs and music | Society | The Observer

This is an amazing article. It discusses social orders, their drugs, and the music they spawned. It shows the beautiful feedback loop that results from all this. It lacks one critical piece of information: what's happening currently with experimental drugs whose names and natures aren't known outside of readers of Shulgin or Bluelight.

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december 2008 by jtth

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The “broken windows” theory of crime is correct | Can the can | The Economist

Clearly, cyclists are easily influenced by their surroundings.

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november 2008 by jtth

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Questions for David Lynch - The Visionary - Deborah Solomon - Interview - NYTimes.com
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november 2008 by jtth

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Frank Sinatra Has a Cold - Gay Talese - Best Profile of Sinatra - Esquire

"Frank Sinatra Has a Cold" ran in April 1966 and became one of the most celebrated magazine stories ever published, a pioneering example of what came to be called New Journalism -- a work of rigorously faithful fact enlivened with the kind of vivid storytelling that had previously been reserved for fiction.

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november 2008 by jtth

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Intentional action and Asperger Syndrome | Psychology Today Blogs

Try it for yourself. My perception of intentionality isn't 'normal.'

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november 2008 by jtth

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The Robin - Adorable hipsters fall victim to tragic bike accidents again and again

Hilarious. This site is a gem.

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november 2008 by jtth

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Aermacchi Motorcycles - The Kneeslider

Aermacchi isn’t a name you see very often these days unless you spend your time at vintage race events but Aermacchi motorcycles are some of the sweetest looking little machines around. Aermacchi made and still makes aircraft over in Italy. Back around 1950, they got into the motorcycle business and started building small displacement motorcycles, somewhere in the 50cc to 350cc range. About ten years later, Harley Davidson got involved in the company and they produced what most folks in the U.S. are familiar with, the Aermacchi Harley Davidsons. These little guys are just clean and elegant little single cylinder motorcycles, the kind of bike you could really have some fun with.

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november 2008 by jtth

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'Rimbaud: The Double Life of a Rebel' - 'Emily Post: Daughter of the Gilded Age, Mistress of American Manners' - 'Mr. Playboy: Hugh Hefner and the American Dream' - 'John Lennon: The Life' - 'The Way I Am' -- New York Magazine Book Review

The pop-psychological common denominator in these five lives seems to be an absent father. (As Eminem puts it, with his signature grace: “It takes a real special kind of asshole to abandon a kid.”) Rimbaud’s father walked out on his family when Arthur was 6, leaving the boy all alone to systematically outrage his unsmiling, conservative mother.

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october 2008 by jtth

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Study finds genomic changes in the brains of people who commit suicide
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october 2008 by jtth

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The fallibility of scientific journals | Publish and be wrong | The Economist
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october 2008 by jtth

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The Things He Carried - The Atlantic (November 2008)

Airport security in America is a sham—“security theater” designed to make travelers feel better and catch stupid terrorists. Smart ones can get through security with fake boarding passes and all manner of prohibited items—as our correspondent did with ease.

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october 2008 by jtth

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Barack's Brilliant Economic Plan Would Be A True Game Changer, In A Good Way

Obamanomics sounds pretty nice, and refreshing. It's different than standard Democrat or Republican rhetoric. Other than the lending institution for governments at the state and local level, allowing you to withdrawal from your retirement savings (just a little) sounds kind of like a pragmatic libertarian. And it might work.

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october 2008 by jtth

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Kevin Kelly -- The Technium

The Baby Boom generation (a world-wide phenomenon) has an expected life span of about 80 years. Born about 1950, most baby boomers should be dead by 2040. However all kinds of other powerful things are expected to happen by 2040. China’s economy is due to overtake the US in 2040. 2040 is the average date when the Singularity is supposed to happen. 2040 is when we expect Moore's Law to reach the computational power of a human on a desk top. 2040 is also about when the population of the world is supposed to peak once and for all, and environmental pressure decrease. This grand convergence of global scale disruptors are all scheduled to appear – no surprise – at exactly the date of this generation’s Maes-Garreau Point: 2040.

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october 2008 by jtth

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Doctors who kill themselves: a study of the methods used for suicide -- HAWTON et al. 93 (6): 351 -- QJM

Medical practitioners have a relatively high rate of suicide. Death entry data for doctors who died by suicide or undetermined cause between 1979 and 1995 in England and Wales were used to compare methods used for suicide by doctors with those used by the general population. Methods used were analysed according to gender, occupational status and speciality, to assess the extent to which access to dangerous means influences the pattern of suicide.