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It might have been PC Gamer [1] magazine. I had both Worms Armageddon and Age of Empires II in the late '90s, and I remember some copies of this magazine lying around. I think this magazine would come with demo CDs pretty often.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_Gamer

Comment · 6 years ago

This probably isn't exactly what you're looking for, but you might find Robert Darnton's essay "First Steps Toward a History of Reading" interesting. [1] It mostly covers the early modern period, if I remember correctly, not contemporary reading practices.

[1] http://robertdarnton.org/sites/default/files/First%20Steps%2...

Comment · 6 years ago

Adler's "How to Read a Book" (the 1972 edition) also recommends to avoid subvocalization and to use your finger as a "pacer" to guide your eye across each line. I was surprised to see that the author of this article suggests that these two techniques are not supported by scientific studies. I'm glad I have not gotten far in adopting these!

Comment · 9 years ago

Hartford, Connecticut has many of these intersections. I enjoy them as a pedestrian.

Comment · 9 years ago

In Rousseau's Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men[1] (1775) he discusses the Caribs of Venezuela:

"As the savage state also protects them from gout and rheumatism, and old age is, of all ills, that which human aid can least alleviate, they cease to be, without others perceiving that they are no more, and almost without perceiving it themselves.

With respect to sickness, I shall not repeat the vain and false declamations which most healthy people pronounce against medicine; but I shall ask if any solid observations have been made from which it may be justly concluded that, in the countries where the art of medicine is most neglected, the mean duration of man's life is less than in those where it is most cultivated. How indeed can this be the case, if we bring on ourselves more diseases than medicine can furnish remedies? [...]

When we think of the good constitution of the savages, at least of those whom we have not ruined with our spirituous liquors, and reflect that they are troubled with hardly any disorders, save wounds and old age, we are tempted to believe that, in following the history of civil society, we shall be telling also that of human sickness."

[1] http://www.constitution.org/jjr/ineq_03.htm

Comment · 10 years ago

> Does Subgraph isolate USB and network? The isolated serviceVMs for USB and network are in my opinion a very strong value proposition of Qubes.

According to Joanna Rutkowska, developer of Qubes: "Unlike Qubes OS, Subgraph doesn't (cannot) isolate networking and USB stacks, or other devices and drivers."[1]

[1] https://secure-os.org/pipermail/desktops/2015-October/000002...

Comment · 10 years ago

Mine is the same as yours: a circle with months going clockwise, Jan/Dec at 6 o'clock.

It occurred to me a couple years ago that thinking of the calendar like this might not be something everyone does. I asked my friend how he thought of it and he said he saw it as a LINE.

Comment · 11 years ago

> When people on the far left and the far right agree, they're usually onto something.

A similar observation is the "horseshoe theory": "The horseshoe theory in political science asserts that rather than the far left and the far right being at opposite and opposing ends of a linear political continuum, they in fact closely resemble one another, much like the ends of a horseshoe."[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_theory