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• Should we cool it with the historical present?
  October 21, 2021
• Introducing Five’Em, a Texas Hold’Em variant
  March 13, 2019
• The three-page paper that shook philosophy: Gettiers in s...
  January 13, 2019
• DocWriter: the typewriter that sends its keystrokes in re...
  September 17, 2017
• Most book clubs are doing it wrong
  July 15, 2017
• Speed matters: Why working quickly is more important than...
  July 26, 2015
• How I reverse-engineered Google Docs to play back any doc...
  November 10, 2014
• You’re probably using the wrong dictionary
  May 18, 2014
• More people should write
  September 27, 2012
• The best general advice on earth
  July 25, 2012
• The shape of a listener
  May 23, 2012
• Project Euler problem 191, or, how I learned to stop coun...
  February 25, 2011
• Six lines
  February 13, 2011
• Social Annealing
  October 20, 2010
• Perfunctory Offers
  October 12, 2010
• Exploring the complexity of driving directions
  July 28, 2010
• Kavka’s toxin puzzle
  March 7, 2010
• “It turns out”
  February 28, 2010
• Compuchemical Economies
  February 16, 2010
• What it used to be like to look things up
  February 12, 2010
• The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Exp...
  February 9, 2010
• Kenjitsu
  February 8, 2010
• Why the Law
  November 3, 2009
• Wandering the web stacks to improve your information diet
  October 31, 2009
• Rule 110, or, how a little orange dot becomes a universal...
  September 20, 2009
• By inspection
  September 9, 2009
• Offline Wikipedia
  August 23, 2009
• Anatomy of a Project Euler problem, and, some remarks on ...
  March 12, 2009
• Metacat
  March 11, 2009
• Those maps at the beginning of books, or, a few words abo...
  March 7, 2009
• Feynman’s Rigor
  March 2, 2009