Kickingbear» Blog Archive » Software Sea Change
january 2010 by jtth
The mid to late 90’s saw an abomination arise. An abomination so large that no matter where you hid eventually you would be splattered in its shit. Wave upon wave of fucked up tastelessness washed up upon our shores. It clung to our Navigator windows screaming, “Under Construction!!!” in three different colours, each bolded, with at least one blinking. Our browsers cried out in pain as pages upon pages were rendered in agonizing animated gif detail, virtually vomiting out reams of star-field backed text – “AltaVista Indexed”!
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january 2010 by jtth
Print: Gladwell for Dummies
november 2009 by jtth
The best book report ever written.
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november 2009 by jtth
Unqualified Reservations: Wolfram Alpha and hubristic user interfaces
july 2009 by jtth
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
The Bride Was Beautiful
april 2009 by jtth
Katie Kirkpatrick, 21, held off cancer to celebrate the happiest day of her life. [...] Her organs were shutting down but it would not stop her from marrying Nick Godwin, 23, who was in love with Katie since 11th grade.
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cancer
april 2009 by jtth
Modern Love - Why Spoil Great Sex by Dating? - NYTimes.com
february 2009 by jtth
Modern dating is awesome.
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february 2009 by jtth
Rands In Repose: A Signature Cadence
december 2008 by jtth
Reasons why Web 2.0 is genuine, or at least feels as such.
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december 2008 by jtth
Frank Sinatra Has a Cold - Gay Talese - Best Profile of Sinatra - Esquire
november 2008 by jtth
"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
Cato Unbound » Blog Archive » Towards a Culture of Responsible Psychoactive Drug Use
september 2008 by jtth
The caretakers of erowid discuss their topic well.
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psychoactives
september 2008 by jtth
The American Scholar - The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - By William Deresiewicz
july 2008 by jtth
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.
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july 2008 by jtth
The Soul Is Software
september 2007 by jtth
What is the soul? The soul is not a supernatural construct. I see the soul as one's personality, including deeper levels that are typically beyond conscious awareness. The soul is embodied within us as software, running on the hardware of our brains and b
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september 2007 by jtth
Enough With It!
may 2007 by jtth
Taken as a whole, the last 100 years of design history can be seen as a violent abstraction from passion, from the bondage of longing, from needing. Certainly early Modernists professed ideals about community, sharing, and individualism. But they were afr
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may 2007 by jtth
Do the Impossible: Know Thyself - New English Review
march 2007 by jtth
Theodore Dalrymple argues that neuroscience is not the final answer to humanity's existential quest to know itself.
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science
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march 2007 by jtth
Ode to the Extra Life :: DESTRUCTOID :: Hardcore video game blog
february 2007 by jtth
An ode to the extra life: its origins, history, and life.
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game
games
blog
february 2007 by jtth
stevenberlinjohnson.com: Tool For Thought
november 2006 by jtth
Steven Berlin Johnson shows how he uses DEVONthink.
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november 2006 by jtth
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