[Nita]'s diary

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Written about Saturday 2008-08-30
Written: (5720 days ago)

Greta Christina asks her readers how to avoid becoming a crank, and receives some great replies! Very recommended for overcritical nitpicky spoilsports like me ;) http://gretachristina.typepad.com/greta_christinas_weblog/2008/08/on-not-being-a-crank.html

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Written about Monday 2008-08-25
Written: (5725 days ago)
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Written about Thursday 2008-08-21
Written: (5729 days ago)

Free textbooks!
Article: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-textbook18-2008aug18,0,4712858.story
Discussion: http://news.slashdot.org/news/08/08/19/1316227.shtml
Example: http://www.lightandmatter.com/books.html

On a related note, SiSU looks interesting: http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/
As you might know, I love the flexibility of HTML+CSS(+JS). I'm also a wannabe fan of S5 (file format), Leo (text editor) and the LaTeX class beamer. If you know of any other one-source-many-uses projects, let me know :)

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Written about Tuesday 2008-08-19
Written: (5731 days ago)

We were talking in the forums, and I remembered about The Eatpoo Guide for Art desperados, which is a pretty good intro for newbie (and maybe not-so-new) artists: http://eatpoo.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=27

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Written about Monday 2008-08-18
Written: (5732 days ago)
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Written about Saturday 2008-08-16
Written: (5734 days ago)
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Written about Friday 2008-08-15
Written: (5735 days ago)

A small study finds that female relatives of gay/bi men have more children than those of straight men. They come up with a theory to explain it, but I'm not convinced: http://www.newscientist.com/channel/being-human/dn14543-bisexuality-passed-on-by-hyperheterosexuals-.html

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Written about Thursday 2008-08-14
Written: (5736 days ago)
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Written about Thursday 2008-08-14
Written: (5736 days ago)

Apple is doing well, the stock market believes; nerds discuss why: http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/14/0257244

And, apparently, being pretty has measurable benefits (imagine that!): http://www.newscientist.com/channel/sex/mg19926694.600-humans-are-biased-towards-the-beautiful.html

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Written about Thursday 2008-08-14
Written: (5736 days ago)

A discussion about allowing doping in sports: http://science.slashdot.org/science/08/08/13/1957200.shtml
As one commenter says, "sportmanship is hard to find in professional sports, but it exists at other levels." I think it's a natural result of athletics turning from a discipline into an entertainment industry too popular for its own good. We, as a society, have lost perspective somewhere along the way :/

And in other news, we have... robots with braaains! (well, almost) http://technology.newscientist.com/channel/tech/mg19926696.100-rise-of-the-ratbrained-robots.html

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Written about Thursday 2008-08-14
Written: (5737 days ago)
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Written about Wednesday 2008-08-13
Written: (5737 days ago)
Next in thread: 1041300

How do you run without legs? Like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNPPbn19UkQ

Eee rocks, but Asus doesn't know what to do with it, says Eric Sink: http://www.ericsink.com/entries/eee.html

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Written about Tuesday 2008-08-12
Written: (5738 days ago)
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Written about Tuesday 2008-08-12
Written: (5738 days ago)
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Perhaps a bit too peppy, but oh well... http://www.girleffect.org/

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Written about Tuesday 2008-08-12
Written: (5738 days ago)
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Written about Tuesday 2008-08-12
Written: (5738 days ago)

And now, for something completely different...

Textual pacman: http://pac-txt.com/
Solitaire: http://worldofsolitaire.com/?source=games
"Chat": http://www.bigbluecup.com/games.php?action=detail&id=1059

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Written about Tuesday 2008-08-12
Written: (5739 days ago)

Greta Christina insists that living for the moment and spending every day as if it were your last is unwise, and suggests living in the moment and spending your life as if it were your last instead: http://gretachristina.typepad.com/greta_christinas_weblog/2008/08/living-each-day-as-if-it-were-your-last.html

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Written about Monday 2008-08-11
Written: (5739 days ago)
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Written about Monday 2008-08-11
Written: (5739 days ago)

The benefits of writing fanfic: http://ali-wildgoose.livejournal.com/349726.html

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Written about Sunday 2008-08-10
Written: (5740 days ago)

Really nice sketches (somewhat NSFW, maybe?): http://eatpoo.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=281

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Written about Sunday 2008-08-10
Written: (5740 days ago)

On the gap between modern students and the academia: http://burntoutadjunct.blogspot.com/2008/06/google-is-not-research.html

An unorthodox view on attention and productivity: http://speedchange.blogspot.com/2008/06/in-praise-of-distraction.html

Somewhat applicable to believing in Elftown and such: http://autisticbfh.blogspot.com/2008/08/on-changing-culture.html

"He was a good kid," says a killer's lawyer. Reminded me of http://www.amazon.com/Our-Guys-Perfect-Research-Masculinities/dp/0520205960 , too. http://shrewdnessofapes.blogspot.com/2008/08/14-year-old-pleads-not-guilty-in.html

Bitter insights into the world of science: http://youngfemalescientist.blogspot.com/

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