Update: Click here if you would like to try HyperCard yourself. Hypercard (version 2.4.1.) "Home" card. I was a Hypercard child – though our friendship was brief. Our seventh-grade class was led into a room full of brand-new Macintosh Performas . The day’s lesson was a crash course in the use of an…

Seven habits of effective text editing Bram Moolenaar November 2000 If you spend a lot of time typing plain text, writing programs or HTML, you can save much of that time by using a good editor and using it effectively. This paper will present guidelines and hints for doing your work more quickly…

Creative Commons Licence http://purl.org/nxg/note/singular-data This section is here because the quasi-historical argument ‘data is a plural latin word’ is trotted out far too often, as justification for treating ‘data’ as a plural noun in english. This section is here to acknowledge that this…

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Robert Plomin King's College London, MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London, SE5 8AF, UK. E-mail: robert.plomin{at}kcl.ac.uk Introduction The importance of non-shared environment lay hidden within quantitative genetic studies since…

Original article: http://www.wenet.net/~scoville/PCarticle.html If there's nothing different about UNIX people, how come so many were liberal-arts majors? It's the love of words that makes UNIX stand out. Thomas Scoville In the late 1980s, I worked in the advanced R&D arm of the Silicon Valley's…

The last person to interview Gloria Steinem for the Observer was Martin Amis, in 1984. He waited for her at the offices of Ms, the magazine that she co-founded in 1972 – “Pleasant though I found it, I was also aware of my otherness, my testosterone, among all this female calm” – and then they headed…

Cheap Ray Bans, Ray Ban Sunglasses, Ray Ban Sale. Heed McCain's Warning on Immigration The Cordray Crisis Santorum's Flawed Plan for Working America Seriously, Why Won't Perry Drop Out? Santorum Masters Retail Politics October 27th, 2011 at 12:24 am | 82 Comments | | It is no secret to practitioners…

The final weeks of Muammar Qaddafi’s violent and coercive life reminded me vividly of Jim Jones and the People’s Temple Cult. It was obvious from late last August that Qaddafi had lost. The people in his own capital of Tripoli rose up against him in all but a few small neighborhoods, courageously…

My first glimpse of E. O. Wilson came in July, in the late afternoon, when the light fades and dies with alarming speed in Mozambique. He had emerged from his cabin within Gorongosa National Park, one of southern Africa’s great, historic game reserves, just as the nightly winter chill was bestirring…

In 2001, when I was 28, I broke up with my boyfriend. Allan and I had been together for three years, and there was no good reason to end things. He was (and remains) an exceptional person, intelligent, good-looking, loyal, kind. My friends, many of whom were married or in marriage-track…

Liquor Stories “What’s your work background?” my new boss asked me. Day one of training at the telecommunications company was off to a generic start. After failing to acquire a job in my field post-graduation, I decided selling out was my best option and had applied to be a customer service…

Excerpts from an Oral History Interview with Steve Jobs Founder, NeXT Computer. Interviewer: Daniel Morrow, Executive Director, The Computerworld Smithsonian Awards ProgramDate of Interview: 20 April 1995 Location: NeXT Computer Transcript Editor: Thomas J. Campanella, Computerworld Smithsonian…

I last saw Steve Jobs a year and half ago. I spent an hour alone in his company while he showed me the latest piece of magical hardware to have come from the company he had founded in 1976, the yet to be released Apple iPad. Naturally I was flattered to have been approved by him to be the one to…

News & Analysis Sociology Social Scientists Wade Into the Tweet Stream Greg Miller Science 30 Sep 2011: Vol. 333, Issue 6051, pp. 1814-1815 DOI: 10.1126/science.333.6051.1814 Article Figures & Data Info & Metrics eLetters PDF

Topics: Philosophy, History, Nonfiction, Books, Entertainment News This year marks the hundredth anniversary of the Loeb Classical Library, one of the most remarkable publishing projects in modern history. Yet as with everything book-related in the year 2011, the Loeb centenary carries with it a…

A Reply to Robert Murphy’s ‘Have Anthropologists Overturned Menger? By David Graeber, who currently holds the position of Reader in Social Anthropology at Goldsmiths University London. Prior to this he was an associate professor of anthropology at Yale University. He is the author of ‘ Debt: The…

Westminster isn’t sure. But it’s suddenly obsessed with them Recently, one Tory cabinet member went for dinner at a top London hotel with some of the most famous members of the financial elite. Good food and better wine: it was the kind of occasion that, in days gone by, would have turned into an…

Sara Horowitz, the founder of the Freelancers Union (through which I get my health insurance, by the way), makes the case that we are moving into a new US economy where rōnin (or freelancers) are becoming a significant force: Sara Horowitz, The Freelance Surge Is the Industrial Revolution of Our…

1. Science has a lot of uses. It can uncover laws of nature, cure disease, inspire awe, make bombs, and help bridges to stand up. Indeed science is so good at what it does that there’s a perpetual temptation to drag it into problems where it may add little or even distract from the real issues.…