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I've never heard this term before: "black tongue comments." Wondering what's its origin?

Someone in the comments linked to this Chrome extension: https://makemediumreadable.com/ I tried it, and after turning on all the extension's features, it pretty much solves the pr…

I also like to Google everything, even individual words or proper names I already know the meaning of, just because I can. I use the Google Dictionary Extension for Chrome. Just do…

Here's the TED talk version of this article: "Connected, But Alone?" http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html

I think "Gentlemen Learning Code" would be a great name for such a workshop. And we would wear monocles and brown tweed. It would be both educational and ironically hip! In all ser…

True, though I'm not sure that's the generally accepted definition of "joker." I think this screed could be better summarized by the catchphrase "Git 'r done!" Ironically, said cat…

They probably only insisted because they assumed it was an impostor who happened to have the same middle name as the famous author.

There was a great article in the New York Times last year that partly attributed Italy's stagnation to its unusually insular, family-oriented culture. "The suspicion of Italians wh…

Meditation breaks are great, as is occasionally disconnecting from the matrix. But I'm not sure clicking through text on a website is the most effective way to accomplish this. I'd…

An earlier Hacker News discussion on this article can be found here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1815457

Perhaps "poo work" or "feces work" would have been more apropos.

I've always liked this approach, even if it comes with some controversy. This could set in motion a number of exciting discoveries.

Somehow I doubt a public relations agent on Dropbox's payroll wrote up a piece specifically from David Pogue's point of view, in the unique writing style of David Pogue, so that Da…

It would also solve obesity, because they'd all be human-powered. I actually imagine a future where we could basically have gigantic power generation stations stocked with complex …

I'm a big fan of the Readability bookmarklet (readability.com/bookmarklets), which lets you set the page's font, size, colors, etc. As a bonus, it nukes most of the clutter such as…

I don't actually see it. But, you might want to check out the Awesome Screenshot add-in for Firefox and Chrome. It lets you capture the whole page, as well as crop, annotate and bl…

I'm sure there are, but I'll bet not so many that this inquiry will reach all of them. Maybe set up something more permanently on meetup.com?

Like many of the commenters, I'm not crazy about the changes. But I do notice one marked improvement, though I'm not sure how many others will share my experience. I've been using …