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Plancake Blog - Plancake is shutting downplancake.com
Online | Project Manager | Calendar | To-do List | Task manager | GTD | For PC and Smartphone - onlinelibrary.wiley.com
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Outstanding photos of the X-15, the fastest manned aircraft ever madesploid.gizmodo.com
While the Blackbird SR-71 was the fastest manned airplane ever made, the fastest manned aircraft is the North American X-15, a rocket plane that flew for the first time on June 8, 1959, launched from a NASA NB-52B mothership. On October 1967 it pulveri... -
Revisiting The Black Cauldron, the movie that almost killed Disney animation.slate.com
In 1985, a single movie almost killed Disney animation. With an announced budget of $25 million—later accounts place it closer to $40 million— The Black Cauldron was at the time the most expensive animated film ever made. Based on Lloyd Alexander's fan... - blog.codinghorror.com
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Is the IKEA Aesthetic Comfy or Creepy?newyorker.com
Lauren Collins on the world of IKEA. “The company’s vision, one executive said, is ‘to create a better life for the many.’ ” - en.wikipedia.org
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The Slow Death of ‘Do Not Track’nytimes.com
The F.T.C. outsourced its job to industry. The victim: Your privacy. -
He Was Present at the Birth of Punk, and He Took Notesnytimes.com
From the Doors to the Ramones, Danny Fields witnessed a revolution from the inside, and kept records. -
How movies embraced Hinduism (without you even noticing)theguardian.com
From Interstellar to the Matrix and Star Wars the venerable religion has been the driving philosophy behind many hit movies. Why? - cs.stanford.edu
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Chicago gave hundreds of high-risk kids a summer job. Violent crime arrests plummeted.washingtonpost.com
Research shows that a summer job program cut violent crime arrests by 43 percent. -
Psychologists strike a blow for reproducibilitynature.com
Thirty-six labs collaborate to check 13 earlier findings. - bbc.com
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Remote Developers, Not Immigration Policy, Are the Real Solution to America's Tech Skill Shortageblog.salsitasoft.com
Paul Graham's latest essay makes an impassioned plea for more liberal immigration policies in the United States for high-tech workers. Software startups are desperate for great developers, he writes, and the notion that we can meet this need simply by... - nytimes.com
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