A defense of jaywalking. - By Tom Vanderbilt - Slate Magazine
november 2009 by jtth
A historical look at jaywalking.
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november 2009 by jtth
A Guide to Alternative Handwriting and Shorthand Systems
august 2009 by jtth
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
Pink: Apple's First Stab at a Modern Operating System
april 2009 by jtth
A division-wide staff meeting was held to determine the scope of the newly organized divisions. The developers were all given stacks of red, pink, and blue index cards and were asked to write their proposals for new operating systems on them. On the red cards, they wrote down features that could only be implemented in the far future, the pink cards were for a major revision of Mac OS not so far in the future, and the blue cards held proposals for System 4
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april 2009 by jtth
Jennifer 8. Lee hunts for General Tso | Video on TED.com
april 2009 by jtth
Reporter Jennifer 8. Lee talks about her hunt for the origins of familiar Chinese-American dishes -- exploring the hidden spots where these two cultures have (so tastily) combined to form a new cuisine.
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april 2009 by jtth
Floodgap Mosaic-CK: an unsupported updated port of the NCSA Mosaic web browser
april 2009 by jtth
Welcome to Floodgap's Mosaic-CK page, my local hacked-up port of Mosaic to bring it into the modern World Wide Web context. Although Mosaic-CK started as my simple effort to port NCSA Mosaic to my Power MachTen systems, I have decided to expand the project to allow people to experiment and play with this historic browser package in the 21st century.
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april 2009 by jtth
CensorZilla
january 2009 by jtth
When we created mozilla.org and released (most of) the source code to Netscape Confusicator 4.x, Netscape's lawyers made us go through a big "sanitization" process on the source code. Largely this consisted of making sure we had the legal rights to all the code we were releasing, and making sure every file had proper and accurate copyright statements; but they also made us take out all the dirty words. Specifically, "any text containing vulgar or offensive words or expressions; any text that might be slanderous or libelous to individuals and/or institutions."
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january 2009 by jtth
Damn Interesting » On the Origin of Circuits
december 2008 by jtth
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
The Agrippa Files
december 2008 by jtth
Agrippa (a book of the dead) appeared in 1992 as a collaboration between artist Dennis Ashbaugh, author William Gibson, and publisher Kevin Begos, Jr. The Agrippa Files is a scholarly site that presents selected pages from the original art book; a unique archive of materials dating from the book’s creation and early reception; an emulation of Gibson’s included poem in its original born-and-die-digital form (it ran from a diskette once before encrypting itself into oblivion); a simulation of what the book’s intended “fading images” might have looked like; a video of the 1992 “transmission” of the work; a “virtual lightbox” for comparing and studying pages; full-text scholarly essays and interviews; an annotated bibliography of scholarship, press coverage, interviews, and other material; a detailed bibliographic description of the book; and a discussion forum.
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december 2008 by jtth
The Making of... Dune II | Edge Online
december 2008 by jtth
Talks about how the Mac UI was an inspiring factor in the design of the progenitor of RTS games.
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december 2008 by jtth
Drugs uncovered: A brief history of drugs in literature | Society | The Observer
december 2008 by jtth
A wonderful cornucopia of writers who used drugs, and their drugs of choice.
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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
Boris Artzybasheff
november 2008 by jtth
Fought with anti-communist White Russians before immigrating to US (he spoke no English and arrived with 14 cents). A chameleon, able to adapt different styles, from children's books to portraits. Renowned for his ability to turn machines into living beings (and living beings into who-knows-what). Advisor to the Psychological Warfare branch during WW II. A profuse illustrator for the majors: Life, Fortune, and Time (producing 200+ covers for the last). Illustrated 50 books, including those he wrote himself, notably "As I See." Plentiful ad work for Xerox, Shell Oil, Pan Am, Casco Power Tools, Alcoa Steamship lines, Parke Davis, Avco Manufacturing, Scotch Tape, Wickwire Spencer Steele, Vultee Aircraft, World Airways, and Parker Pens. Mechanics Illustrated profiled him with a cover story in 1954, "When Machines Come to Life."
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november 2008 by jtth
Wanderlust: GOOD traces the most famous trips in history
august 2008 by jtth
Maps of the most famous journeys of history.
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august 2008 by jtth
The Periodic Table of Videos - University of Nottingham
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august 2008 by jtth
science reference cool interesting tutorial video fun visualization history education academic youtube resources teaching tutorials videos online elements periodic chemistry film table periodictable periodic_table school geek elearning
august 2008 by jtth
[exclusive] Over 400 forms used by the National Security Agency
july 2008 by jtth
Via a Freedom of Information Act request (which involved paying $700 and waiting almost 4 years), The Memory Hole has obtained blank copies of most forms used by the National Security Agency).
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july 2008 by jtth
The Mike Wallace Interview
april 2008 by jtth
There are 65 interviews in the Ransom Center's collection. Five are on audio tape, and the others are kinescopes, 16mm recordings of the television programs made by filming the picture from a video monitor. These 16mm films were transferred to video and,
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april 2008 by jtth
JUST VISION
february 2008 by jtth
A visual representation of the ongoing Arab-Israeli conflict.
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february 2008 by jtth
Edge: Cover Story - Publico Sunday Magazine
february 2008 by jtth
Prominent scientists write a paragraph describing how they've changed their minds recently.
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february 2008 by jtth
Neatorama » Blog Archive » The Evolution of Tech Companies Logos
february 2008 by jtth
Awesome historical perspective on the logos of many successful tech companies of the twentieth century.
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february 2008 by jtth
Internet '96
january 2008 by jtth
What the websites of some corporate pages looked like in '96.
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january 2008 by jtth
Internet Archive: Million Book Project
november 2007 by jtth
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
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november 2007 by jtth
History of Religion
october 2007 by jtth
How has the geography of religion evolved over the centuries, and where has it sparked wars? Our map gives us a brief history of the world's most well-known religions: Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Judaism. Selected periods of inter-religio
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october 2007 by jtth
Jack Herer - Chapters
october 2007 by jtth
This is the book that started the hemp revolution. More than 600,000 copies have been sold to date. The print version of The Emperor Wears No Clothes is available in Jack's Hemporium. Jack wants this information to be available to everyone, so he has publ
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october 2007 by jtth
The Great Iraq Swindle: : Rolling Stone
september 2007 by jtth
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
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september 2007 by jtth
Election 2004 Results
september 2007 by jtth
Maps of elections since 1960.
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september 2007 by jtth
Best Free Documentaries: Dangerous Knowledge - Full Documentary
september 2007 by jtth
In this one-off documentary, David Malone looks at four brilliant mathematicians - Georg Cantor, Ludwig Boltzmann, Kurt Gödel and Alan ... all » Turing - whose genius has profoundly affected us, but which tragically drove them insane and eventually led
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september 2007 by jtth
Indians predated Newton 'discovery' by 250 years
august 2007 by jtth
He added: "For some unfathomable reasons, the standard of evidence required to claim transmission of knowledge from East to West is greater than the standard of evidence required to knowledge from West to East.
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august 2007 by jtth
An illustrated history of trepanation « Neurophilosophy
june 2007 by jtth
Just like the title says.
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june 2007 by jtth
Latin Sayings
may 2007 by jtth
Some interesting and useful latin sayings.
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may 2007 by jtth
The Straight Dope: What does "OK" stand for?
april 2007 by jtth
The history of the phrase "OK."
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april 2007 by jtth
Neural Networks at your Fingertips
april 2007 by jtth
A list of many famous neural networks.
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april 2007 by jtth
The Mothership! The Apple Lisa and Early Macintosh Archive!
april 2007 by jtth
An Apple Ad Archive.
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april 2007 by jtth
LiveScience.com - Sparta, Spandex and Disturbing Distortions of '300'
march 2007 by jtth
A clarification of the hellenistic history of the blockbuster movie '300'.
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march 2007 by jtth
NYPL Digital Gallery | Home
november 2006 by jtth
NYPL Digital Gallery provides access to over 520,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library.
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november 2006 by jtth
Hot Library Smut
october 2006 by jtth
Delicious pictures of libraries around the world.
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october 2006 by jtth
"I felt that something unusual was happening, that I had never heard the piano played like this." | MetaFilter
may 2006 by jtth
Dinu Lipatti could play the piano before he could smile.
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may 2006 by jtth
The ghostly salt city beneath Detroit
april 2006 by jtth
An article discussing the large salt mine city beneath Detroit.
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april 2006 by jtth
Damn Interesting » Let Slip the Dogs of War
april 2006 by jtth
The Nazi Blitzkrieg was a revolution in warfare that forced the rest of the world into a wild scramble to figure out how to dam the onslaught. The German tanks were fast and powerful, and very difficult for the conventional weapons of 1939 to repel. They
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april 2006 by jtth
Frequently Asked Questions about Caffeine
january 2006 by jtth
This FAQ is dedicated to all beverages and products that contain caffeine; including tea, coffee, chocolate, mate, caffeinated soft drinks, caffeinated pills, coffee beans, etc.
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january 2006 by jtth
Atomic Bomb detonation by Harold Edgerton
january 2006 by jtth
Automatic Camera situated 7 miles from blast with 10 foot lens. Shutter speed equaled 1/1000,000,000 of-a-second exposure.
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january 2006 by jtth
DIE OFF - a population crash resource page
december 2005 by jtth
DIE OFF "If a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst." -- Thomas Hardy Petroleum geologists have known for 50 years that global oil production would "peak" and begin its inevitable decline within a decade of the year 2000. Mo
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december 2005 by jtth
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