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Science Proves You're Stupid | h+ Magazine When confronted with the original essays, people were so attached to their new memories they had trouble believing their old ones.  In fact, most refused to revise their memories to match the originals written at the time. What struck Burton was the response of one student: "That's my…

Emphasis Update and Source – NYTimes.com Last November, I blogged about a few new features on NYTimes.com. Today we’re releasing an update to one of those features, which I’ve been calling “Emphasis”: paragraph-specific anchor links and the ability to highlight text in articles and blog posts. (tags: javascript webdesign links ia nytimes)

Reactive Paint (by @baekdal) #design (tags: design wallpaper cool)

Hot Pants 1970 • Hotpants girls years 70's shorts ragazze anni 70 (tags: fashion retro photography vintage) Awkward Stock Photos Voor de nieuwe website, dan.  (tags: photography stock)

Does the Harlequin Romance Unicorn Vengeance boast the worst sentence ever published in English? Mayhap! – Kansas City News – Plog (tags: literature language)

Barnaby Brown | Just another WordPress.com weblog Barnaby Brown leads the revival of the northern triplepipe, the ‘organ’ of the Celtic Church and precursor of the bagpipe in Britain and Ireland. He also champions the art of canntaireachd, a chant which imitates the sound of the Highland bagpipe, and plays pibroch on a reproduction of a chanter owned…

[MOD COMPILATION] Minecraft Community Pack v1.31 [BETA v1.1] – Minecraft Forums This Compilation is a showcase of the power of Minecraft's modding community. It combines many of the most popular mods around and has been tested to ensure compatibility. (tags: minecraft mods) The US standard railroad gauge is 4 feet, 8.5 inches. That’s an exceedingly…

Wormworldsaga.com – An Online Graphic Novel by Daniel Lieske – Chapter 1 – The Last Day Of School Oh wow. (tags: comics art illustration)

The Anatomy of a Perfect Landing Page – Formstack (tags: design usability webdesign)

Everything You Think You Know About the Dark Ages is Wrong | RD10Q | Religion Dispatches The Abacus and the Cross: The Story of the Pope Who Brought the Light of Science to the Dark Ages (tags: history)

War Tard: The Ivory Coast: Are the ghosts of Rwanda about to strike back? It's another classic war in Africa that nobody will give a shit about. Except maybe when Hershey Bars cost ten cents more. (tags: war history politics africa)

The Physiology of Foie: Why Foie Gras is Not Unethical | Serious Eats So while the ducks are technically force-fed, there is a level of built-in anatomical control so that the ducks can't take in any more food than they can physically handle. That's more respect than most fast food chains show for their human…

Competing Against Non-Consumption | Business Innovation Factory Clay Christensen talks about the importance for established companies to compete against non-consumption and reliably plug these growth gaps before they surprise the market.  (tags: non-consumption toread business)

The Defeat of the English Armada: A More Detailed Look at the Spanish Armada and its Aftermath Punctured Myths and Surprising Facts (tags: war england spain history)

Notes on the Tongeren Lead Bar Es ist falsch die Varusschlacht als historischen Wendepunkt aufzufassen, wie dies geschichtswissenschaftlich Unkundige gerade in diesen Tagen wiederholt propagieren, (tags: rome history)