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He's smart as hell and goes right at it, whatever it happens to be (in this case the above photo). I'll recommend his book wholehe...

The Great Lie - Culture - The Atlantic A powerful poem about slavery and its living legacy.

Scott Adams (Dilbert) suggests (for a good reason) that pool should be taught in school.

Excellent fries, also. Thanks, Zagats .

Jazz . Useful if you ever need to take down an elementary school kid who's getting too big for his britches.

“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.”

NPR says that it's because you actually remember all the details.

I wish I'd thought of this .

I try to stay away from ThinkGeek for exactly this reason.

Further to the Fred Brooks quote from a few weeks ago, this one from Pixar's Ed Catmull: " Success hides problems. " When I ...

I didn't want to get my pilot's license until now.

Horseracing to hot dog-eating, every single sport on earth shares three fundamental characteristics: people compete at it, computers can...

Why not? If I get tired of doing Project Euler problems in Java, I could switch over to Python .

Top rated answers : 1. Both 2. Yes 3. Two sides of the same coin.

Dr. Bill Andrews is hoping to extend the human lifespan by lengthening telomeres, a marker for aging.

I love The Roches. Always will. Full stop. Lyrics from metrolyrics.com I'm losin' you fading from view aging and aching and raging...

http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/thewrongstuff/archive/2010/08/03/error-message-google-research-director-peter-norvig-on-being-wrong.aspx

From a lovely Russian blog by Sergey Larenkov .

Fred Brooks wrote The Mythical Man-Month , and was recently interviewed by Wired. Brooks: You can learn more from failure than success. In ...

This is a link to an article by David Code , with some thoughtful insights on why destructive dynamics can develop in relationships.