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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.
article  reference  articles  humor  politics  health  usa  info  uk  conservative  canada  europe  fivethirtyeight  healthcare 
august 2009 by jtth
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.
accessibility  eyetracking  nielsen  reading  ui  marketing  website  patterns  layout  pattern  usability  content  interface  webdev  webdesign  writing  visualization  research  psychology  tips  development  internet  articles  technology  web  interesting  design  reference  article  science 
july 2009 by jtth
You should follow me on Twitter | Dustin Curtis
I actually tried many more permutations than I show here. I only discuss the most interesting ones below and describe my thought process along the way.
blog  web  design  psychology  articles  writing  webdesign  ui  usability  blogging  data  inspiration  language  statistics  communication  optimization  marketing  conversion  testing  twitter  persuasion  copywriting  socialmedia  action  ux  clickthrough  abtesting  measurement  calltoaction  wording 
july 2009 by jtth
The Making of... Dune II | Edge Online
Talks about how the Mac UI was an inspiring factor in the design of the progenitor of RTS games.
design  computer  articles  history  games  computers  interface  gaming  videogames  ui  edge  interaction  hci  strategy  rts 
december 2008 by jtth
Maxing out your Triangle — jackcheng.com
These three things fulfill some of our very basic needs—they give us stability, excitement, ways to contribute and opportunities to grow. If you’re with me so far, then allow me to present exhibit A, the love-growth-cash triangle:
reference  design  cool  tips  interesting  fun  articles  visualization  lifehacks  productivity  work  philosophy  gtd  money  life  project  inspiration  career  reading  graphs  jobs  happiness  lifehack  love  job  charts  triangle  infographics  growth  love-growth-cash 
november 2008 by jtth
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.
article  cool  research  humor  articles  history  writing  music  read  magazine  english  essay  reading  journalism  esquire  profile  sinatra  franksinatra  newjournalism  essays  gaytalese  cold  talese 
november 2008 by jtth
McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Physical Theories as Women
3. Quantum mechanics is the girl you meet at the poetry reading. Everyone thinks she's really interesting and people you don't know are obsessed about her. You go out.
art  articles  dating  funny  fun  humor  geek  humour  women  science  physics 
july 2008 by jtth
The American Scholar - The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - By William Deresiewicz
A codemnation of the Ivy League American schools from one of their own. He sounds like one, too: An elite education gives you the chance to be rich but it takes away the chance not to be.
academia  academics  america  articles  blog  book  education  culture  college  essay  class  school  politics  art 
july 2008 by jtth
Internet Archive: Million Book Project
An early collection of books from the Indian scanning centers of the Universal Library Project or sometimes called the Million Books Project. Many of these books are not complete or in good shape. The Internet Archive looks to work with volunteers to find
books  ebooks  library  reference  free  ebook  history  website  mellon  carnegie  education  resources  research  repository  reading  online  academic  archive  articles  book  scanning  search 
november 2007 by jtth
The Great Iraq Swindle: : Rolling Stone
How is it done? How do you screw the taxpayer for millions, get away with it and then ride off into the sunset with one middle finger extended, the other wrapped around a chilled martini? Ask Earnest O. Robbins -- he knows all about being a successful con
Iraq  politics  corruption  war  bush  government  money  fuck  future  evil  economy  economics  disaster  administration  america  army  article  articles  blogs  business  crazy  crime  wtf  world  usa  taxes  sad  research  reference  read  profiteering  planning  international  idea  history  journalism 
september 2007 by jtth
IUJCS Volume 1 - Fall, 2006
The latest version of the IUJCS, the Indiana Undergraduate Journal of Cognitive Science.
undergrad  articles  journal  cogsci  cognitive  science  cognitivescience  neuralnet  neural  music  bach  ai  philosophy 
october 2006 by jtth
The Shreveport Times
Black kids were forced to give up their seats and move to the back of the bus, where they had to sit atop one another.
injustice  racism  weird  articles 
august 2006 by jtth
Masked crusader
A masked man patrols our capital city!
articles  comic  cool  culture  funny  interesting  news  Psychology  weird  superhero 
july 2006 by jtth
Pink Tentacle
These creatures were made with paper and a gigantic imagination.
art  weird  sculpture  japan  monster  papercraft  cool  design  blog  awesome  articles  animals  interesting  fun  media  photographs  photography  photos  strange 
july 2006 by jtth
Where Is Consciousness? I've Lost It!
A neurologist studying people with hydrocephalus found that half of his most severe cases had IQs greater than 100, even though they had 95% of their cranial cavity filled with cerebrospinal fluid. One of them was a student who had an IQ of 126 and had a
article  articles  brain  health  medicine  interesting  mind  neuroscience  Psychology  science  wtf  cognition  consciousness 
june 2006 by jtth
Wired 9.12: Take The AQ Test
A test determining your autism spectrum quotient. I scored a 19, but I am suspected to have mild Aspurger's.
article  articles  brain  gentoo  health  fun  intelligence  interesting  mind  mental  psychology  social  quiz  thinking  wired 
april 2006 by jtth
The ghostly salt city beneath Detroit
An article discussing the large salt mine city beneath Detroit.
articles  history 
april 2006 by jtth
Erowid Library : Online Books
The full text of many ethnopharmacological pertinent books.
drugs  books  articles 
february 2006 by jtth
LA Weekly: Features: Death Race 2000
Death Race 2000 Horror filmmaker Eric Red crashed his Jeep, killing two. Then he slit his own throat. That was only the beginning by PAUL CULLUM
articles  interesting  news  writing  suicide  crime  film  horror  movies 
january 2006 by jtth
OSx86 Project - Apple's Hidden Message to Hackers: "Dont Steal Mac OS X"
We’ve received some information regarding Apple's newest portable, the MacBook Pro, and with it a hidden message for would-be hackers. We were made privy to a text dump from the System Profiler of one of the new MacBooks and, naturally, couldn’t wait
articles  apple 
january 2006 by jtth
BBC NEWS | World | Asia-Pacific | Taiwan breeds green-glowing pigs
Scientists in Taiwan say they have bred three pigs that glow in the dark. They claim that while other researchers have bred partly fluorescent pigs, theirs are the only pigs in the world which are green through and through.
animals  articles  cool  drugs  food  fun  funny  interesting  journalism  news  science  technology  weird  wtf  green  genetics  pigs 
january 2006 by jtth
Yahoo! News Photo
Cy, short for Cyclopes, a kitten born with only one eye and no nose, is shown in this photo provided by its owner in Redmond, Oregon, on Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2005. The kitten, a ragdoll breed, which died after living for one day, was one of two in the litt
articles  weird  animals  cats  cool  photo  cat  cyclops  photos  cute 
january 2006 by jtth
True Facts
Random True facts to amaze your friends.
articles  trivia  facts  cool  fun  humor  interesting  reference  funny  make  web 
december 2005 by jtth
aboutAI.net
A portal to lots of articles concerning artifical intelligence and cognitive science.
cogsci  q240  ai  articles 
december 2005 by jtth

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