The Snail Shell

Here's a model ( more info ) that I thought was an old Buddhist thing but is actually just from Jonathan Haidt, like a number of other ...

As I understand it, Bernie Sanders held a rally in Seattle, some Black Lives Matter protesters stormed the stage before his speech and took...

I mean, that term is too loaded. It's either Bad (if you're republican) or Good (if you're not). Obv I think Good is closer to...

We need a word for this. Articles where it's not a wider issue, but just one person doing one bad thing, and everyone freaks the hell o...

From today's Eat That Read This : """ A Squirrel Hill resident wrote in to the PG to bemoan the fact that residents...

Before this move, I knew of two reasonable ways to get furniture: 1. cheaply, whatever you find, yard sales and stuff. 2. IKEA. I sort o...

Soma Smoothie ES. 2010. 60cm. Kept in great shape. It's big, it's light, drop bars, amazing parts. It's kinda perfect for every...

Wow. Those are words I don't say very often. I mean, ever. When have I ever made a lifelong commitment to anything? Almost never. I m...

I heard Black Mirror was totally the coolest, and it's not, but it's pretty great. I'd give it 4/5 stars. Minus two for being, ...

A week in Seoul is sadly over! First I will say, Seoul is kind of the best. I saw a nice temple, a modern art museum, a couple parks, biked...

Before They  - a portrait of shrinking tribes worldwide Requesting all the photos the DHS has of you  - hah, kind of neat. Antibiotics i...

I'm reading this book now, Rewire by Ethan Zuckerman. Overall, totally dig it. He's pushing cosmopolitanism, the idea that we can ...

In CS school, we learned about computational complexity (and if you start tuning out you can just skip to the next paragraph). Some algorit...

It feels like we, as humans, are not capable of processing certain questions above a certain level of complexity. For example, "should...

Three Letter Words Two Letter Words These were what I really wanted to do when I made Pokemon Watch . (I mean, besides have cute pok...

Hey. Okay. If you want to get angrier, read this: 7 Reasons America Is Stuck in Never-Ending War . It's on Mother Jones, so those of yo...

Been thinking about this and figured it'd be worth writing up. In this guide I assume: - you want to buy a bike to get around town, a ...

Okay, goddamn, the thing that I was trying to say before in point 9  two posts ago  is way better described by Scott Alexander here . (albe...

File this under "fun class/side projects." A watch that shows one Pokemon per minute instead of a numerical minute. (no hour han...

I know nobody else reads posts like these but I kind of want to save them/mentally catalogue all these links I've been saving: Histor...