Month: July 2008
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Food, Wonderful Food (Cooking Resources)
Recipes and Tips for Healthy, Thrifty Meals (pdf) is n ebook created by the US Department of Agriculture’s Centre for Nutrition Policy and Promotion. It contains a wealth of information including: best buys for cost and nutrition; some nice, simple recipes; and food lists for two weeks worth of meals. If you don’t have all…
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Mental Math and Memory Techniques at the Mentat Wiki
In the novel Dune, ‘Mentats’ are humans trained to mimic computers: human minds developed to staggering heights of cognitive and analytical ability. With this in mind, you may be able to guess what’s in store at the Mentat Wiki, which calls itself “a collaborative environment for exploring ways to become a better thinker”: ‘Mental Math’…
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Joel on Bill Gates’ Software
Bill Gates is undeniably one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the world. He is also one of the most derided due to the poor usability of many Microsoft applications. The following article and this email are going a long way in repairing Gates’ image. Joel “on Software” Spolsky on his time at Microsoft: Bill…
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The Best of Neurophilosophy
The Best of Neurophilosophy is a roundup of the best posts from the blog of the same name. Posts highlighted include those on brainwashing, prefrontal lobotomies, trepanation,and the psychology of Alfred Hitchcock.
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2008 Penguin Design Award
The 2008 Penguin Design Award results are out and all of the designs are outstanding. Choice quotes from The Penguin Blog: ‘Good design costs no more than bad design’, said Penguin founder Sir Allen Lane. Something in the way visual communication courses are structured and delivered has fundamentally changed. We’re seeing a certain type of…
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Books That Changed Your Life
Lifehacker picked up on Kevin Kelly’s book list (one of the lists I wrote about here) and subsequently asked its readership what books changed their lives. The results were duly compiled in The Books That Changed Your Life. The top ten: The Bible The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams) The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)…
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Men’s Style
Omiru focuses on “real style for real people”. Coming in 46th place on Times’ 50 Best Websites of 2008, for people like me (the perpetually unfashionable) the Men’s section of Omiru is a Godsend. I know that it’s not entirely possible to have a 10-item-only wardrobe, but what 10 items do you think could make…
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Books on Behaviour, Irrationality, & Economics
I’m struggling to separate the wheat from the chaff in this list of books. I just know that hidden within some there must be a treasure trove of knowledge. The problem is: in which? Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions The Black Swan: The…
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A Guide for Learning Foreign Languages (Resources)
Latin was probably the single most useful subject I was taught in school. I despised it at the time, but now I have come to realise its importance and many applications–the greatest of which is how it has helped me learn other languages. In learning languages (although none to fluency… yet) I have found the…