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Category Archives: Links
Missing the point
Russian chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov muses about chess and computers:
The moment I became the youngest world chess champion in history at the age of twenty-two in 1985, I began receiving endless questions about the secret of my success and the nature of my talent. Instead of asking about Sicilian Defenses, journalists wanted to know about [...]
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A Classroom Divided
Watch A Classroom Divided
Jane Elliott, a teacher in a small, all-white Iowa town, divided her third-grade class into blue-eyed and brown-eyed groups and gave them a daring lesson in discrimination.
Every student should go through this lesson.
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Things Development Status
Interesting UI and metaphor design for the development status page of Things. Bad news is that there’s no end in sight for Over-The-Air Sync.
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Screenwriting notes for the uncreative mind
Writer for Sex and the City shares how she writes
Pretty useful information, even for writing in general. Especially the portions on First Drafts, or Vomit Drafts. I found myself writing less because I spend too much time trying to get it right the first time round. Really zaps your energy away. Learning to [...]
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Why many photo-sharing sites and communities stink
Petteri Sulonen is right on the money:
I used to participate on Photosig, but I learned to hate it. It exerts a huge pressure of blandification — shooting for the lowest common denominator. Flowers, bug macros, anal-retentive “figure studies,” golden-hour landscapes, pouty soft-focus “glamour” ladies, you name it — every photographic cliché ever invented [...]
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Double standards
Jason Panthera on the government’s rationale not to repeal the 377A because a majority of Singaporeans did not want to.
Governments are elected to do what is right, not just what is most popular – otherwise, we wouldn’t have taxes, we wouldn’t have Electronic Road Pricing and there would be no National Service.
I wasn’t [...]
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Relieve your Windows Experience
Right here.
Well existing Windows users shouldn’t torture themselves further, I guess.
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Fur Trade
I read many comments on YouTube about “muthafuckin chinks and chinese”. I think they are missing the point here. By the way, it’s up to you which pill to take. The blue one would cause you less discomfort; the red one would cause them less.
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Pulitzer-Winning Photojournalist Slams World Press Photo Awards