In the middle of the desert you can say anything you want
Weird generating maps of terrains. Excellent.
=Changeability
A Dutch uncle is an informal term for a person who issues frank, harsh, or severe comments and criticism to educate, encourage, or admonish someone. Thus, a “Dutch uncle” is the reverse of what is normally thought of as avuncular or uncle-like (indulgent and permissive).
Play about a robot caring for a women with dementia
Then they picked out the eight email sign-offs that appeared over 1,000 times each and figured out the response rate linked to each sign-off. Here’s what they found:
"Thanks in advance" had a response rate of 65.7%
"Thanks" had a response rate of 63%
"Thank you" had a response rate of 57.9%
"Cheers" had a response rate of 54.4%
"Kind regards" had a response rate of 53.9%
"Regards" had a response rate of 53.5%
"Best regards" had a response rate of 52.9%
"Best" had a response rate of 51.2%
The average response rate for all the emails in their sample was 47.5%.More details: http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=542341
You want to do X, and you think Y is the best way of doing so. Instead
of asking about X, you ask about Y.
Also: Men
This is excellent in how it’s written – almost my own multiple levels of footnotes, coded by colors; a really nice writing style; many images Another extremely inspiring example
Also:
An elderly man was sitting alone on a dark path. He wasn’t sure of which direction to go, and he’d forgotten both where he was traveling to…and who he was. He remembered absolutely nothing. He suddenly looked up to see an elderly woman before him. She grinned toothlessly and with a cackle, spoke: “Now your third wish. What will it be?” “Third wish?” The man was baffled. “How can it be a third wish if I haven’t had a first and second wish?” “You’ve had two wishes already,” the hag said, “but your second wish was for you to forget everything you know.” She cackled at the poor man. “So it is that you have one wish left.” “All right,” he said hesitantly, “I don’t believe this, but there’s no harm in trying. I wish to know who I truly am.” “Funny,” said the old woman as she granted his wish and disappeared forever. “That was your first wish…”
From Reddit.
Small Truecrypt-like tool to encrypt individual files with a password
People have an unique SM feed -> more chances to visit certain links -> deanonymization
Excellent example of how to make a resume website – perfectly formulated and full of examples.
This idea spawned another: “Why not orchestrate a social movement
around natural highs: around people getting high on their own brain
chemistry – because it seems obvious to me that people want to change
their consciousness – without the deleterious effects of drugs?”
“We didn’t say to them, you’re coming in for treatment. We said, we’ll
teach you anything you want to learn: music, dance, hip hop, art,
martial arts.”
Their analysis revealed clear differences between the lives of kids who
took up drinking, smoking and other drugs, and those who didn’t. A few
factors emerged as strongly protective: participation in organized
activities – especially sport – three or four times a week, total time
spent with parents during the week, feeling cared about at school, and
not being outdoors in the late evenings.
“At that time, there had been all kinds of substance prevention efforts
and programs,” says Inga Dóra, who was a research assistant on the
surveys. “Mostly they were built on education.”
- Education works worse than activities
A total of 95 male inpatients were assigned to three groups and were asked to take either caffeine (60, 120mg) or placebo (soymilk powder) daily for 4 weeks on the basis of their current antidepressant medications. Results showed that chronic supplementation with low dose of caffeine (60 mg) produced rapid antidepressant action by reduction of depressive scores. Furthermore, low dose of caffeine improved cognitive performance in depressed patients.