A comment Original Article [World News★★★]Hong Kong Protesters Defy Government With Massive Rally (P1) A bold rally of tens of thousands of people mobilized in Hong Kong Saturday night, just hours after the region’s Beijing-backed leader Leung Chun-ying issued a …
A comment [TED] Rajesh Rao: A Rosetta Stone for a lost language Rajesh Rao is fascinated by “the mother of all crossword puzzles”: how to decipher the 4000-year-old Indus script. He’s enlisting modern computation to try to read this lost …
A comment Original Article [World News★★]The Simpsons Go to China [modified] (P1) Later this fall, “The Simpsons” will begin streaming in China, as part of a new multi-year deal between Fox and Sohu, a minor colossus in the competitive world …
A comment Original Article [Technology★★]This is not 2005 and investing in Snapchat is the last thing Mayer’s Yahoo can afford to do (P1) Yahoo is preparing to lead an investment round in Snapchat that values the ephemeral messaging startup at …
A comment Original Article [Technology★★] Oculus Rift Leaders Say You’ll Buy Both Their Virtual Reality Headsets (P1) Oculus Rift creator Palmer Luckey doesn’t think the just-announced Gear VR mobile virtual reality headset he’s building for Samsung is going to compete with his …
A comment Original Article [Thoughts★★★] The Best Possible Day (P1) A COUPLE of years ago, I got a call from the husband of Peg Bachelder, my daughter Hunter’s piano teacher. “Peg’s in the hospital,” Martin said. She’d been treated in …
A comment on BMW’s design and its relationship to typography as part of their design curriculum. Original Article [Thoughts★★]The Typography of Speed (P1) Cars and glyphs: They’re not so far apart. In an industry like car manufacturing, where the tiniest …
Bitcoin is a digital currency first invented by a Japanese mathematician Satoshi Nakamotoin 2008 and introduced as open-source software in 2009. This cryptocurrency received much attention when its exchange rate skyrocketed last year, and many technocrats strongly support its potential to disrupt …
People remember me by different aliases depending on where and when I met them. Although many dismiss the significance of a name, I feel like it’s very much connected to a personal identity. Have you considered using a name in a different …
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