Saturday, 3. February 12018
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As long as the fish are ok…

Informing Businesses About the Risks of Forced Labor, Human Trafficking, and Hazardous Child Labor in Fisheries (via npr.org).

Does Depression Have an Evolutionary Purpose?

Even if depression evolved as a useful tool over the eons, that doesn’t make it useful today.

Why hiring the ‘best’ people produces the least creative results.

“(…) If you want to explore things you haven’t explored, having people who look just like you and think just like you is not the best way.”

The Star Wars posters of Soviet Europe.

Behind the Iron Curtain, artists created strikingly trippy ads for the saga (…)

Thursday, 1. February 12018
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Something about the way all these cliches come together, and that now is the time they have done so, really sets this apart from everything else in the scene right now. What a ridiculous surprise.

Tuesday, 30. January 12018
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Because William Zabka is the Karate Kid!

Why is pop culture obsessed with battles between good and evil?

In old folktales, no one fights for values. Individual stories might show the virtues of honesty or hospitality, but there’s no agreement among folktales about which actions are good or bad.

Panicked about Kids’ Addiction to Tech?

Verbalize what you’re doing with your phone. (…) The funny thing about verbalizing what you’re doing is that you’ll check yourself about your decisions to grab that phone.

Laws of UX.

NO_COLOR.

An increasing number of command-line software programs output text with ANSI color escape codes by default. While some developers and users obviously prefer seeing these colors, many users don’t. (…) All command-line software which outputs text with ANSI color added should check for the presence of a NO_COLOR environment variable that, when present (regardless of its value), prevents the addition of ANSI color.

Paper Programs.

Run Javascript programs on pieces of paper, using a projector and camera. Physically hold programs in your hand, and see them come to life, as if by magic.