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"The translation process is itself an art form." Without question. I have also read books in several different translations and it is remarkable how different they can be from each…

Who Has Seen the Wind by W.O. Mitchell is a novel that was required reading in Canada for generations, but it is almost completely unknown in the United States. I don't know if it …

That doesn't look nearly as bad as I thought it would. I never had a problem with Picard being bald though. Even as a kid he was my favorite character on the show.

Very interesting way of looking at it. I've always wondered what is the evolutionary advantage of consciousness -- if we don't have free will, then why have self awareness at all i…

I see this story as a kind of thought experiment about the way in which societies treat minority groups. There have been many societies that felt the oppression of a minority was j…

"Only check out the first screen of any news web site. No scrolling down, and no clicking links." I like that rule. One quick check of the news home page should be enough to tell y…

It has been a really long time (years) since I had to use any printed book as reference material. For any question I have concerning a random factual matter, I am always able to fi…

No downvote from me; I agree with what you said and I appreciate your having the courage to say it. The writer of this article has dumped one form of religion and replaced it with …

Strangely enough, this tactic has made me much less inclined to click links for the New York Times, the Washington Post, or any other online publication that uses paywalls. I think…

If you are from Europe then you don't get it. This is mostly an American thing and it has been going on for years. I recall a story from about 10-15 years ago where a couple from E…

Sinbad should just go ahead and make that movie now. He can then release it with a marketing campaign that says, "The classic childhood favorite, lost for 20 years, now available a…

That's awesome, but to me it is an example of retro design -- that is, a site made to look as if it was built back then, not something that would actually have been built back then…

I just found my first website (from January 2000) in the Wayback Machine. Not gonna post it here, but it's actually not that bad -- it had a consistent header, sidebar navigation, …

I actually get a little excited when I see the blink and marquee tags still being used on current websites. (yeah I know, I'm psychotic!)

I love it. I have an unreasonable amount of nostalgia for old websites like this. This is what the whole Web looked like back in the early days, before the usability and design gur…

But not everyone is capable of being Elon Musk, or should even want to be like him, if they really understood what it takes to be him. Here is one of the most insightful posts I ha…

Seems a good place to bring up Charles Holland Duell, the US Commissioner of Patents who supposedly said "Everything that can be invented has been invented" back in 1899. That quot…

I for one appreciate the link. I think his advice is right on target for someone who aspires to be a creative writer, which is not necessarily the same thing (unfortunately) as som…

The copyright date is 2006. It's amazing that a site design like this would have been built as late as 2006. It looks more like something from 1996. Oh, and I just noticed that if …

It does actually have a fluid grid, so it is responsive down to about tablet width. It does not display correctly on phones however, which I suppose is a fatal flaw for a hotel sit…

I love coming across old sites like that. So much nostalgia. :)

It would be better to say, if a leader can relate to the people, then he may be more likely to take their interests seriously.

I liked that quote, too. I think it is true of other art forms as well, like novels, movies, and even computer games. I find that most of the time, when I like a new book or movie,…