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You might want to look into Colemak, which keeps some shortcut keys in place, is easier to learn than Dvorak and has similar speed/ergonomic advantages. Of course some shortcuts li…

Same with MSN Messenger but they fixed that in the latest version.

I guess it's just my bias/skepticism because against flashbulb memories but this sums up my position: "Flashbulb memories are not special in their accuracy, as previously claimed, …

I'm kind of skeptical to these type of memories, called flashbulb memories, since most of the time subjects give vivid details and are confident when in fact it's just made up deta…

Concerts/shows. I rarely buy music but I still want to support the artists I like and its a great experience. I tend not to go to shows that only sell via Ticketmaster or are exorb…

I find it interesting but not to the extent its permeated conversation outside of psychology. I remember cognitive dissonance had a similar standing in pop psychology a while back.…

If you enable browser.ctrlTab.previews in Firefox's about:config panel you can get MRU tab-switching with thumbnail previews.

I think that's pretty misleading comparing Silk to Comic Sans. A more suitable comparison would be to something like Helvetica or Times New Roman. Ubiquitous and overused but still…

It's doubly funny when you look at the difference between "use knowledge to make an age-reversing potion " which follows with "use knowledge to build flux capacitor"

Titled: "What He Said" On a side note, poetry isn't poetry without proper spacing.

I love how Canada somehow spends less time eating out than the US but somehow ends up 10% less obese.

I've used Open Office in the past and advocated it to my friends but I hypocritically use Office. The ribbon for all it's criticism seems to be highly functional, aesthetically ple…

Of the plenty of other sites, I like http://browsehappy.com/

I must be uninformed about something but why is Pirate Bay getting all the flack from the DMCA; having their servers raided, going to court, this. Aren't there a dozen other torren…

Zero-tolerance, in schools anyway, is zero-thought for the administration and principles, having to deal with the grey cases, setting exceptions when they're education administrato…

Sorry are you serious? Why would a Hindu that is pro-arranged marriage be on a dating website? Arranged marriages were a severe form of keeping the caste system in tact but that's …

On a side note, if you don't know who Terrence Tao is you should read his bio. It's pretty interesting: child prodigy, math olympiad, Fields Medal etc.

Is there any credit to the rumour that blue-eyed individuals have better sight, indicating why there are so many blue-eyed fighter pilots etc?

Sends the message that you aren't very eco-friendly.

http://www.bugmenot.com/view/nytimes.com

Are you viewing the large version or the medium one. The large one, http://quotesque.net/images/stdio003-web-l.jpg , has text plenty big enough to read.

Men's Health did a feature a while back on a Western runner who attempted to play their games (a tag-like game) which consisted of running for a whole day and contrasted this with …

True for me as well even here on HN; I go out of my way to read downvoted comments when they're barely legible by highlighting them.

If Microsoft doesn't use Silverlight, do you expect Adobe to? Or rather they'd use something as tentative is HTML5's video tags? Sure it's annoying but it's to be expected.

I think it's nothing more than an updated gif. Google Notebook was out of beta for a few years before they pulled the plug. Albeit the circumstances were different but Google has t…