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In particular, shrink-wrap sealed records from the 70s, when exposed to heat from storage or from direct sunlight, can warp the hell out of the record and sleeve as the shrink contracts and expands. I would even say this is a common problem for sealed records of that era.

I find the layout of poster downloads on the detail pages of the individual laws, with the text of the law and lawofux.com tag on the right side, unfortunate. The layout of the posters on the top-level page are 100x more evocative and elegant. They are the posters I want.

Reminds me of when my wife conveyed enthusiasm about her tech job to some family and friends of family back in France, how interesting the work was, creative, etc, only to have them snicker and declare, "look at you, so American now, you can't stop smiling." And yes, the connotation was something like vanity and superficiality.

"It’s just that grinning without cause is not a skill Russians possess or feel compelled to cultivate."

Unlike depression, and mathematics.

I often think about Arthur Rubenstein, the phenom mid-century pianist, for whom a lot has been written about his mission in early life to "practice as little as possible." There's a lot of hyped up romanticism in these quotes and anyone who plays at his level has spent a lifetime playing piano, period. Regardless, his guidance about spontaneity, creativity, and the relationship to practicing too much, which I equate to the current discussion on overworking, is highly interesting.

"I was born very, very lazy and I don't always practice very long, but I must say, in my defense, that it is not so good, in a musical way, to overpractice. When you do, the music seems to come out of your pocket. If you play with a feeling of 'Oh, I know this,' you play without that little drop of fresh blood that is necessary—and the audience feels it." Of his own practice methods, he said, "At every concert I leave a lot to the moment. I must have the unexpected, the unforeseen. I want to risk, to dare. I want to be surprised by what comes out. I want to enjoy it more than the audience. That way the music can bloom anew."

Not all work benefits from risk, the drop of blood, the unexpected, that are all baked into the right amount of effort, but a great deal of valuable and innovative work does.

All of the employees suddenly stay.

There is at least one other distinction of French books, especially in the anthropology domain: They are almost ALWAYS WHITE!

Spines schmines. A friend of mine is a French anthropology buff and his library is white, shelf on shelf of whiteness, titles all in this wild direction. It's madness!!

In defense of Roger Ebert, the dude wrote the screenplay to Russ Meyer's Beyond the Valley of the Dolls.

Didn't Warren Buffet say that Benjamin Graham's margin-annotated Intelligent Investor, or was it, Security Analysis, was his most prized possession.

Otherwise, what funny coincidence in the examples of this article: C.S. Lewis "Lion ..." which I just finished reading to my daughter yesterday, and DFW, who we just finished electing Pres. Gentle.

The Great Concavity - it's coming.

Lol. I once worked with a guy who, when asked for his input on critical emails, would meticulously comb through and delete second spaces after periods. "What did you think? Did you make any changes?" "I removed all of the double spaces after periods." :)

More productive is to try and understand why Minority Report has successfully captured the imagination of so many, persisted over a decade, spawned an entire genre of syfy interface trope that we see in virtually every film having anything to do with future, beyond film, well into games and now commercial interface development.

The assertion that the gesture interface is some kind of virulent ear-worm, dismisses what may be the most interesting thing, the fact that it has captured the imagination of so many. Why?

The irony of Hacker News articles on productivity and focus is not lost on me.