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• 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
• Uncertainty and Reperception
  April 14, 2013
• More people should write
  September 27, 2012
• The best general advice on earth
  July 25, 2012
• The Art of Underlining: Amazon Kindle’s “Popu...
  July 23, 2012
• Introducing jimboPad
  June 26, 2012
• The shape of a listener
  May 23, 2012
• The paradox of writerly rereading
  April 2, 2012
• Watching Birds
  August 16, 2011
• Toys
  July 18, 2011
• Leaving the village
  May 8, 2011
• Bits and Pieces
  March 27, 2011
• On the elusiveness of Uppercase Things
  March 2, 2011
• Spillage
  February 27, 2011
• Project Euler problem 191, or, how I learned to stop coun...
  February 25, 2011
• Boredom
  February 23, 2011
• Futurizing
  February 19, 2011
• “technology,” expectations, pseudoreading
  February 16, 2011
• Six lines
  February 13, 2011
• A brief foray into vectorial semantics
  November 8, 2010
• deskotron
  November 3, 2010
• Social Annealing
  October 20, 2010
• Perfunctory Offers
  October 12, 2010
• The other green planet
  September 28, 2010
• Exploring the complexity of driving directions
  July 28, 2010
• Sundries
  June 29, 2010
• The trouble with “The Big Bang Theory”
  June 17, 2010
• Belief in Belief and the Beetle-Box Metric
  March 17, 2010
• Beware short forms
  March 15, 2010
• Sundries
  March 9, 2010
• Jimbits vol. 3
  March 8, 2010
• Kavka’s toxin puzzle
  March 7, 2010
• Things fall apart
  March 5, 2010
• “It turns out”
  February 28, 2010
• Intraconnectivity
  February 27, 2010
• How about a little fiction?
  February 26, 2010
• The Wiles maneuver
  February 25, 2010
• Jimbo Jeopardy!
  February 23, 2010
• Partici-pants
  February 22, 2010
• A note about notes
  February 17, 2010
• Compuchemical Economies
  February 16, 2010
• What it used to be like to look things up
  February 12, 2010
• Jimbits vol. 2
  February 11, 2010
• Reverso time
  February 10, 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
• Some excellent talk on crime
  October 20, 2009
• Tic takeover, a.k.a the mindvirus
  October 16, 2009
• Rule 110, or, how a little orange dot becomes a universal...
  September 20, 2009
• Open books
  September 19, 2009
• By inspection
  September 9, 2009
• The Snickers trick
  September 7, 2009
• Offline Wikipedia
  August 23, 2009
• The wrong way to search Google in Firefox
• Eighty years without flippers
  August 22, 2009
• Jimbits vol. 1
  March 14, 2009
• Anatomy of a Project Euler problem, and, some remarks on ...
  March 12, 2009
• Metacat
  March 11, 2009
• N: A Coffeehouse Conversation on Minds and Metaphor
  March 8, 2009
• Those maps at the beginning of books, or, a few words abo...
  March 7, 2009
• A good sign
  March 5, 2009
• Bylines (Part 2 of 2)
  March 4, 2009
• Bylines (Part 1 of 2)
  March 3, 2009
• Feynman’s Rigor
  March 2, 2009
• Generating thoughts
  March 1, 2009
• How to be a loser
  February 28, 2009