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Daily question: Is it Greek, Javanese or Heavenly Script to you?
but those that understood him smiled at one another and shook their heads; but, for mine own part, it was Greek to me says Shakespeare in The Tragedy of Julius Caesar. But if you are Italian that woul… more →
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Lockerz.com
fordman98 wrote 1 month ago: lockerz.com is a really cool site a found on a forum I’m on all the time. All you do is log … more →
Question of the Day 1/1/09-7/9/09
tracitoguchi wrote 4 months ago: Since the beginning of this year, I began asking a Question of the Day. This resulted after I was po … more →
Daily question: Is it Greek, Javanese or Heavenly Script to you?
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Kontra wrote 8 months ago: but those that understood him smiled at one another and shook their heads; but, for mine own part, i … more →
Daily question: Can fonts make you want to exercise less?
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Kontra wrote 9 months ago: From Scientific American: Hyunjin Song and Norbert Schwarz wanted to see if they could motivate a gr … more →
Daily question: Aren't numbers important?
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Kontra wrote 9 months ago: Ben Goldacre in Guardian.com: We’re all losers in the numbers game We’re all suckers for … more →
Daily question: Credentialism
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Kontra wrote 10 months ago: Paul Graham in After Credentials: What cram schools are, in effect, is leaks in a seal. The use of c … more →
Daily question: Foot. Bullet. Trigger.
Kontra wrote 10 months ago: From The Crystal Reports® Underground, SAP resurrects the “screenshots” issue: Business Objects clai … more →
Noted: Your coffee maker. Running Windows. Again.
Kontra wrote 10 months ago: From Ars Technica, “Microsoft’s new vision: a computer in every… coffee maker? … more →
Daily question: The Ripley Scroll
Kontra wrote 10 months ago: A small section from the amazing Ripley Scroll at Bibliodyssey: The remarkable Ripley Scroll is, in … more →
Daily question: Focusing on the margins?
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Kontra wrote 11 months ago: In the picture you can see how the Ecofont is created by omitting parts of the letter. At the shown … more →
Daily question: Parking your mind
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Kontra wrote 11 months ago: Mimetic architecture is not entirely new. But Jonathan Moreau captures a rather unique confluence of … more →
Daily question: Can you hear your drawing?
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Kontra wrote 11 months ago: In an elementary school art class the teacher would have us listen to a piece of music and then ask … more →
Daily question: Can your plant Twitter you?
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Kontra wrote 11 months ago: From ThinkGeek: There’s a school of thought that says that plants, like higher animals, have thought … more →
Daily question: Bees do it and birds do it, can we?
Kontra wrote 11 months ago: AskNature, a great new site on biomimicry, has terrific examples of how nature solves problems that … more →
Daily question: Is it just a game?
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Kontra wrote 1 year ago: Here’s Monopoly, one of the most well-known and popular board-games of the last few decades: A … more →
Daily question: What's the word?
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Kontra wrote 1 year ago: In March of 2003 The City Club in Cleveland decided to give the Citadel of Free Speech Award to Supr … more →
Daily question: Forest. Trees.
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Kontra wrote 1 year ago: From Running the Numbers art project where cognitive distance is stripped from pedestrian statistics … more →
Daily question: Can your browser do this?
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Kontra wrote 1 year ago: Exactly ten years ago the state of the art looked like this at Netscape.com: Ten years later, what o … more →
Daily question: Pay to read?
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Kontra wrote 1 year ago: For about $250 you can get the New York Times print edition home delivered daily for a year. That wi … more →
