Pinboard: bookmarks for jtth tagged 'interesting'

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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Where I Write

SF writers in their nests.

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august 2009 by jtth

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Google Similar Images

Similar Images allows you to search for images using pictures rather than words. Click the "Similar images" link under an image to find other images that look like it. Try a search of your own or click on an example below.

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august 2009 by jtth

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ZAP Reader

ZAP Reader is a web based speed reading program that will change the way you read on your computer. Current beta testers report reading twice as much in half the time—that's a 300% increase in reading speed, without any loss in comprehension! There is nothing to install, it works with most popular browsers, and it's totally free!

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july 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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What Happens When Larry and Sergey Die? | The Big Money

Google, Darnton ultimately worries, cannot be trusted. Because the history of literature and publishing since the Enlightenment shows that no one, however noble, can be trusted with control of the entire corpus of human thought.

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may 2009 by jtth

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Jake and Dinos Chapman - Fucking Hell

Not sure what this is, but I enjoyed it.

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april 2009 by jtth

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tweenbots | kacie kinzer

In New York, we are very occupied with getting from one place to another. I wondered: could a human-like object traverse sidewalks and streets along with us, and in so doing, create a narrative about our relationship to space and our willingness to interact with what we find in it? More importantly, how could our actions be seen within a larger context of human connection that emerges from the complexity of the city itself? To answer these questions, I built robots.

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april 2009 by jtth

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Edict of Prices
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february 2009 by jtth

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Cuil Theory: Cuil Theory Home and News
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january 2009 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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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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Daily Routines

The daily routines of famous people, mostly writers.

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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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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:

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november 2008 by jtth

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The underground houses of Coober Pedy - 35 millimeter

It's like fallout, only real and well-lit.

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november 2008 by jtth

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Boris Artzybasheff

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

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Presidential Election 2008 FAQ

This is an FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions list) for the 2008 United States Presidential Election. I need to disclose up front that I am an Obama supporter. However, with the exception of the very last question, this FAQ is designed as a collection of factual information (such as the latest poll results) and of analysis that is as objective as possible.

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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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Flickr: Panda

A panda that vomits interestinness.

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october 2008 by jtth

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Ten Thousand Cents

"Ten Thousand Cents" is a digital artwork that creates a representation of a $100 bill. Using a custom drawing tool, thousands of individuals working in isolation from one another painted a tiny part of the bill without knowledge of the overall task. Workers were paid one cent each via Amazon's Mechanical Turk distributed labor tool. The total labor cost to create the bill, the artwork being created, and the reproductions available for purchase are all $100. The work is presented as a video piece with all 10,000 parts being drawn simultaneously. The project explores the circumstances we live in, a new and uncharted combination of digital labor markets, "crowdsourcing," "virtual economies," and digital reproduction.

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september 2008 by jtth

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10 Easy Arithmetic Tricks - The List Universe

Math can be terrifying for many people. This list will hopefully improve your general knowledge of mathematical tricks and your speed when you need to do math in your head.

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september 2008 by jtth

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Figures for "Impossible fractals"
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august 2008 by jtth

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Edge: ENGINEERS' DREAMS By George Dyson

This George Dyson gem couldn't find a publisher in a fiction venue because it's too technical, and technical publications (including Wired) won't run it because it's fiction. Shame on them. Edge to the rescue.

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august 2008 by jtth

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[exclusive] Over 400 forms used by the National Security Agency

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

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The web-cam-stop-motion-thing

Flash program that takes webcam grabs and laces them into a GIF!

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july 2008 by jtth

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The Truth About Autism: Scientists Reconsider What They Think They Know

A really beautiful article illuminating that which I've always thought: autism is not a disorder.

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february 2008 by jtth

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Edge: Cover Story - Publico Sunday Magazine

Prominent scientists write a paragraph describing how they've changed their minds recently.

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february 2008 by jtth

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Neatorama » Blog Archive » The Evolution of Tech Companies Logos

Awesome historical perspective on the logos of many successful tech companies of the twentieth century.

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february 2008 by jtth

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Brendan Monroe
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february 2008 by jtth

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inessential.com: Weblog: Comments for ‘On the design of the first-run assistant’
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january 2008 by jtth

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Internet '96

What the websites of some corporate pages looked like in '96.

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january 2008 by jtth

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Chem Lab: Scientists Are Learning How Weed Causes Paranoia | Wired Science from Wired.com
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january 2008 by jtth

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[:Mana Energy Potion:] | RoboPult

Such an amazing use of a new $70,000 robot. Dig the vision system.

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january 2008 by jtth

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Become a Lord, Lady, Baron or Baroness
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january 2008 by jtth

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The girls who started going through puberty at THREE | the Daily Mail
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january 2008 by jtth

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Medical myths -- Vreeman and Carroll 335 (7633): 1288 -- BMJ

We generated a list of common medical or medicine related beliefs espoused by physicians and the general public, based on statements we had heard endorsed on multiple occasions and thought were true or might be true.

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december 2007 by jtth

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Musicovery : interactive webRadio

Fucking brilliant. Full-length songs (at not the best quality, but bearable) targeted through some rather abstract metrics.

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december 2007 by jtth

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Attention chronic non-finishers, I know your secret! | Jonathan Fields | Awake At The Wheel

Legend has it, famed Russian and psychologist and researcher, Bluma Zeigarnik, was sitting at a café in Vienna when she noticed that her waiter could remember the details of a large order perfectly until that customer was served. Once served, the order l

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december 2007 by jtth

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Chronology of Events in Science, Mathematics, and Technology
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december 2007 by jtth

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Ming the Mechanic: Megadukkhas - quantifying suffering

They developed the concept of the "dukkha" as a measure of suffering. For the panetics community, the dukkha is a measure of the intensity and duration of pain and anguish adapted from the 9-point hedonic scale used to provide subjective judgements in mar

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december 2007 by jtth

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A List Apart: Articles: Greatest Copy Shot Ever Written

So what makes good copy good? Perhaps we can find out by considering what’s made the best of the best…the best.

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december 2007 by jtth

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Top 87 Bad Predictions about the Future
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october 2007 by jtth

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PSYCHE: Volume 2

In this symposium, nine researchers in computer science, philosophy, psychology, mathematics, and molecular biology address Penrose's positions at some length, concentrating on his Gödelian arguments against artificial intelligence and on his proposal th

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october 2007 by jtth

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ScienceDaily: Physicists Discover Inorganic Dust With Lifelike Qualities

Could extraterrestrial life be made of corkscrew-shaped particles of interstellar dust? Intriguing new evidence of life-like structures that form from inorganic substances in space have been revealed in the New Journal of Physics. The findings hint at the

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september 2007 by jtth

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Digestion Time Of Foods
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september 2007 by jtth

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reactable

The reactable is a collaborative electronic music instrument with a tabletop tangible multi-touch interface. Several simultaneous performers share complete control over the instrument by moving and rotating physical objects on a luminous round table surfa

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september 2007 by jtth

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