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Well, it would be redundant to send a user back to the page he or she just came from, i.e. back to the Google home page. DDG is similarly self-effacing: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=s…

btilly has come full circle! It's still a great post. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=850485 Coincidence that I should see this; I'm not really active on HN anymore, and just h…

VaporEdu?

Sounds like someone always wanted a big brother.

A relentless addiction to indignation Those are exactly the words I've been looking for to describe my boss.

For those of us using NoScript, it's 00 days, 00 hours, 00 minutes, and 00 seconds. We get it first. Win!

So Mike Tyson, the boxer, with his crazy facial tattoo, was just way ahead of facial recognition technology.

I'm going to be that guy: "as a compliment to this paper" --> complement "no higher complement." --> compliment Thanks for a cool post.

I started using Bing recently and I noticed that I was getting error pages intermittently, and then pretty frequently. phpbb and topic view are returning error pages for me (on lat…

I'm sure there's some perfectly good explanation for "Gravity on the island", but I don't know what it is.

I want to love electric cars, but I see two big issues: (1) if they go mass market, all that electricity will still have to be generated somewhere. Coal? Nuclear? (2) The batteries…

It's been a year already, and still I don't think I've ever visited a non-Latin-script URL. You would think the web would be the end of parochialism.

Interesting. Do you now see yourself as deeply engrossed in history and doing the real work necessary to become a competent historian? If so, then your example is a counterpoint to…

Yes, good point. Now that I look over the comments, everyone seems to say the same thing. That's enough to lead me to believe it should be re-examined. Truth is, I once watched hal…

+1 for the idea that history is more than an "incoherent torrent of factoids" I heard Khan say recently on the Colbert Report that he read the Wikipedia article on the French Revol…

I'm still trying to make a go of it on vworker, but have no ratings. However, this guy seems to be successful with it: http://tbbuck.com/winning-your-first-freelance-job-on-vworke.…

When you've activated the Hidden app, and the computer is taking pictures, does the little green light turn on when the camera is on?

This reminds me of part of Stephen Jay Gould's The Mismeasure of Man , which talks about "trained" employees at Staten Island (or other points of entry for immigrants) in the ninet…

Enjoyed this article. A similar theme (modern communication technology prefigured in earlier practices) can be found in Victorian Internet , by Tom Standage.

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Similar theme: http://discovermagazine.com/2001/dec/featglad