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On a little bit of a tangent, this article made me think about how far we've come in terms of air quality in Southern California. We can and should always do better. But in my high…

Cheating is such a fluid concept anyway, and it's inconsistently applied. Some schools will suspend students for using calculators on a math test; some force students to bring calc…

Same question here.

Yes! That's great to hear!

I remember a bunch of "X is evil" sites sprouted up at some point. There was even a site that aggregated them. I did mine when my wife was pregnant with our first daughter back in …

Easily 9.9 out of 10 people won't get sardonicism. My contribution was the Evil of Pippi Longstocking site, which aimed to prove that Pippi Longstocking is the devil. (Anybody reme…

White type on black background made my eyes disobey my wish to have functioning vision for about three minutes after I clicked away.

Side topic: As an end user, the worst for me software that only tells you what's wrong with your password AFTER you've done it wrong, and then only tells you one thing at a time ev…

The trouble is the only thing our state and cities ever do is widen freeways, and that never works. The core of the problem is traffic management, which technology can solve withou…

Freedom of press will easily survive an ephemeron like Trump, maybe even come out stronger for the short-term tribulation. He's superficial. The more insidious statist leaders crea…

Both collaborative assignments and assessments of those assignments are often poorly conceptualized in school. Why, for example, do curriculum developers create (or choose to adopt…

Side note: The volume on BBC's media player goes to 11.

I had kept my Macs at 10.6 for a long time but had to "upgrade" one of them to help my daughter with an iPhone problem (really annoying that you have to update your Mac just to cop…

Came here to see if anyone else noticed that and what people made of it. That was the real revelation in this story. If nothing else, if you followed that one tutorial on running a…

Don't try that with your Surface Pro!

I'd been exclusively with Apple since 1989 when I bought my first Mac (an SE with dual HD floppy drives and a whopping 400 MB external hard drive). I stuck with Apple through the d…

It seems to me the most unscrupulous businesses in the United States all do their business by the books. No need to fudge it by failing to declare revenue. They just don't pay taxe…

Paying off small debts first isn't just a "natural tendency." Consumer advice sites actually encourage this as a motivational strategy. Every single one of them. Having read this, …

Came here to recommend this article as well. It's by far the most informative piece I've ever read on ISIS. This should be required reading for every policymaker and military strat…

This article is for people who haven't yet figured out that different stores sell the same things for different prices. This is the way it's always been. Come for the thing that's …