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During the Tokugawa era, scholars of kokugaku, or "country learning," endeavored to revive nativist traditions and loosen the hold of Chinese influence. Helping these ideas take ho…

Foreign Policy FEATURE Why Is Japan So … Different? A brief history of leaving China, becoming the other, and turning Japanese. BY DAVID PILLING MARCH 17, 2014 On March 16, 1885, a…

Alternatively: Git/version control explained in terms of time travel.

Quite a few gay-identifying men go out of their way to make sure you know how disgusting female genitalia are to them.

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> Apple took FreeBSD and makes it into OSX. No, they took NeXTSTEP and made it into OS X. However much they may now have in common, the history of the codebase goes back years prio…

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5842822

I had a similar issue until getting a HHKB[1] some years ago. The extremely compact design with full-sized keys made it much easier to coax my hands into dancing through emacs' cho…

While the OS-specific keys are sometimes called super, they are not "super" in emacs terminology. Also, if you skim M-x describe-bindings you will find quite a few bindings beginni…

But of course: http://rudel.sourceforge.net/

1) The Wachowski's what? 2) Andrew "Andy" Wachowski has three sisters, so I don't know who these "brothers" repeatedly referenced are. 3) The hell is a "science sci-fi movie"?

It wasn't a big deal when Portal was added to OS X Steam years after the Windows release, it was a big deal when Portal 2 was available on day one.

The quite stable nightly builds of Aquamacs 3 are based upon emacs 24 and available here: http://aquamacs.org/nightlies.shtml

People agreed re the minimap: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/MiniMap

Until then, we have http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/

He may be a tad young for the stuff after 2000 (i.e., the part more interesting and familiar to most potential viewers) but I have a feeling that this Noah Wyle kid could make a de…

http://hackemist.com/SafariOmnibar/

http://db.tt/ZgOyv5c

“iTunes Match stores your complete music library in iCloud, allowing you to enjoy your collection anywhere, anytime, on any iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or computer. iTunes Match beta…

https://github.com/rs/SafariOmnibar

Only the Oxford English Dictionary app comes to mind, terrible (content aside, hence managing to retain “killer” status) and ugly as it is. However, it in no way stands as example …

It works fine for me in 10.6.4

I have and like “Mac OS X for Unix Geeks” 4th/Leopard ed. and “Writing GNU Emacs Extensions”.

Aye, so does the iPhone version of Monkey Island 2. The original, however, offers only the 'drag to move cursor' model.