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How J.K. Rowling Plotted Harry Potter with a Hand-Drawn Spreadsheetopenculture.com
At the height of the Harry Potter novels' popularity, I asked a number of people why those books in particular enjoyed such a devoted readership. Everyone gave almost the same answer: that author J.K. -
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Memo - Anonymous INTEROFFICE MESSENGERgetthememo.com
Memo is a safe place to talk about work, used by thousands of people at the finest organizations in the world. -
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The Cx Programming Languagecx-lang.org
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tfman - a differend file managerzaplanincan.wordpress.com
There are a plead different file managers out there, with or without GUI, with variable amount of panels, keyboard or mouse driven and so on, but this one is a little bit different. It is st... -
Online Courses Raise Their Game: A Review of MOOC Stats and Trends in 2014 - MOOC Reportclass-central.com
MOOC Ecosystem Makes Leap in Maturity in 2014. Take a Look at the Latest Stats and Trends -
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GoDaddy CSRF Vulnerability Allows Domain Takeoverbreakingbits.net
tl;dr: An attacker can leverage a CSRF vulnerability to take over domains registered with GoDaddy. The vulnerability has been patched. Introduction While I was managing an old domain in GoDaddy, I ... -
Feeling Sad Makes Us More Creative | WIREDwired.com
For thousands of years, people have speculated that there’s some correlation between sadness and creativity, so that people who are a little bit miserable (think Van Gogh, or Dylan in 1965, or Virginia Woolf) are also the most innovative. Aristotle was... -
Stanford Students ARRESTED in #ReclaimMLK Shutdownsiliconshutdown.wordpress.com
FOSTER CITY, Calif., This afternoon, 68 Stanford students were arrested while honoring Martin Luther King’s legacy by engaging in civil disobedience. They held the westbound side of the San Mateo B... -
Twitter Confirms Acquisition Of India’s Missed Call Marketing Platform ZipDialtechcrunch.com
Last week TechCrunch reported Twitter was in final talks to acquire ZipDial for between $30 million and $40 million, and today the company announced the deal.. -
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At 90, She's Designing Tech For Aging Boomersnpr.org
Barbara Beskind stands out in youth-obsessed Silicon Valley. She inspires designers at the IDEO firm to think about the needs of older generations: What if your glasses could help you remember people?