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It might have been PC Gamer [1] magazine. I had both Worms Armageddon and Age of Empires II in the late '90s, and I remember some copies of this magazine lying around. I think this…

This probably isn't exactly what you're looking for, but you might find Robert Darnton's essay "First Steps Toward a History of Reading" interesting. [1] It mostly covers the early…

Adler's "How to Read a Book" (the 1972 edition) also recommends to avoid subvocalization and to use your finger as a "pacer" to guide your eye across each line. I was surprised to …

Hartford, Connecticut has many of these intersections. I enjoy them as a pedestrian.

In Rousseau's Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men [1] (1775) he discusses the Caribs of Venezuela: " As the savage state also protects them from gout and rheu…

> Does Subgraph isolate USB and network? The isolated serviceVMs for USB and network are in my opinion a very strong value proposition of Qubes. According to Joanna Rutkowska, deve…

Mine is the same as yours: a circle with months going clockwise, Jan/Dec at 6 o'clock. It occurred to me a couple years ago that thinking of the calendar like this might not be som…

> When people on the far left and the far right agree, they're usually onto something. A similar observation is the "horseshoe theory": "The horseshoe theory in political science a…