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Who knew that our national parks contained such great typography? I love the cursive font here: The trail signs also look great: You can find that cursive font here.

What should I expect in a Product Manager interview at Google and how should I prepare? – Quora goes through all the interview steps, too detailed to quote Innocence Project Co-Founder Peter Neufeld on Being Wrong terrible. Given that factual backdrop, you'd think that people would say, "You're right, we made a terrible, terrible error, [...]

CMC brought in a Wilderness First Response expert to teach us first aid so we could be prepared while leading freshmen on orientation trips in the backcountry. We had been partying every night and everyone was hung over for the talk, but even so, the nonchalance of some group members towards the emergency training put [...]

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Jack Pitney (my former professor) on libertarian politics – Reason.tv "Libertarians are treated as if they have quirky beliefs precisely because they are consistent."

Relationships/Where Couples Met – Wikibooks one-third of couples met in places where no other couples met. E.g., if you're an African explorer, you're more likely to meet your spouse while exploring Africa, and less likely to find your spouse in a Chicago singles bar. School and work are the next-most common meeting locations (15-20%). Parties [...]

Sal Khan talks to 37signals – (37signals) A couple of interesting counterintuitive ideas: He mentioned that the more money people spend on videos, the worse those videos seem to get. Also, he thinks it makes more sense to have students watch lectures at home and do homework at school as opposed to vice versa. Fuck [...]

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Ideal line length for text 12 words per line: "The ideal line length for text layout is based on the physiology of the human eye… At normal reading distance the arc of the visual field is only a few inches – about the width of a well-designed column of text, or about 12 words per [...]