January 2011
118 posts
The Canvas Blog: Introducing Canvas →
canvas:
Today we’re happy to announce the first public release of Canvas.
We’ve had a lot of fun playing with it amongst ourselves and with our friends, and look forward to seeing how others use it and all that we’ll learn and tweak in the coming weeks. Our goal is to create the best place to share…
Crunchiness →
bestofwikipedia:
Crunchiness is the gustatory sensation of muffled grinding of a foodstuff. Crunchiness differs from crispiness in that a crispy item is quickly atomized, while a crunchy one offers sustained, granular resistance to jaw action. While crispiness is difficult to maintain, crunchiness is difficult to overcome. (via @doesnotexist)
dogs sledding
kenyatta:
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Forty Years Later: How 'Oregon Trail' Was Born →
theatlantic:
longreads:
For the next two weeks, Dillenberger and Heinemann spent each night wedged into a tiny computer office—a former janitor’s closet at Bryant Junior High School—tapping code into a teletype machine. The teletype was a screen-less, electromechanical typewriter connected via telephone to a mainframe computer that could issue prompts, receive commands, and run primitive...
Semantic satiation →
readmorewikipedia:
Semantic satiation is a cognitive neuroscience phenomenon in which repetition causes a word or phrase to temporarily lose meaning for the listener, who can only process the speech as repeated meaningless sounds. For example, say: “smile smile smile smile smile smile smile smile smile smile smile smile smile smile….”.
