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"More monitors cut down on toggling time among windows on a single screen, which can save about 10..."

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:28:50 +0000

“More monitors cut down on toggling time among windows on a single screen, which can save about 10 seconds for every five minutes of work.”

- NY Times: In Data Deluge, Multitaskers Go to Multiscreens.

I recently switched from a single 15” 1440×800 MacBook Pro display to three screens: the MBP and two external 1920×1080 monitors (whose diagonal sizes I’m uncertain of, but let’s say 21”). I think it’s helped, especially with having editor, browser, and dev tools on screen at once, with less important stuff glanceable at one side.

I suspect my next home setup will be an Air with a 27” Thunderbolt display acting as a hub. I’m looking forward to it.

Having said all that, 10 seconds for every five minutes of work? That seems like a micro-optimisation.

"Under the rules in place today, any nerd, any withdrawn, bookish kid, can have Asperger syndrome."

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:20:05 +0000

“Under the rules in place today, any nerd, any withdrawn, bookish kid, can have Asperger syndrome.”

- Benjamin Nugent: I Had Asperger Syndrome, Briefly, from the New York Times.

This is one of a series of posts at the NY Times about the new edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the fifth (DSM-5 for short), which narrows the definition of autism (and Asperger syndrome) significantly. This particular post is well worth a read. (Thanks, Molly.)

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Tue, 06 Dec 2011 21:48:11 +0000

"I’m not suggesting that Marvel give “Thor 2” to somebody like Lars von Trier, much as I’d love to..."

Sat, 30 Jul 2011 18:45:31 +0100

“I’m not suggesting that Marvel give “Thor 2” to somebody like Lars von Trier, much as I’d love to see what that guy would do with Norse mythology and a nine-figure budget.”

- Alex Pappademas: The Prescription to Save Ailing Superheroes in the New York Times.

I don’t know why not. It’d be interesting, at least.

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"Figuring out why New York City subway trains seem to be playing Leonard Bernstein proves a much more..."

Mon, 04 Apr 2011 17:42:53 +0100

“Figuring out why New York City subway trains seem to be playing Leonard Bernstein proves a much more difficult task. Juan Harvey, a messenger waiting yesterday at the 66th Street station, said he has heard the song and believed it is ”some kind of a plot by the Japanese to brainwash us all.” This would be an intriguing line of inquiry, except that the new No. 2 trains are manufactured by a Canadian company called Bombardier. Informed of this, Mr. Harvey said that he did not think the Canadians would want to brainwash us.”

- Randy Kennedy, reporting for the New York Times in 2002, in a story titled Tunnel Vision - Three-Note Mystery Haunts Riders on No. 2 Line. (Thanks, Chris.)

As the caption at the New York Times slideshow of best of breed...

Wed, 16 Feb 2011 19:09:25 +0000

As the caption at the New York Times slideshow of best of breed dogs puts it: Ziggy the Puli, 4 years old. Registered as “Cordmaker Rumpus Bumpus.” Owned by Jackie Beaudoin. Photograph: Fred Conrad. (via Cynthia.)

"Upkeep of centuries-old buildings is an enormous drain for European institutions like the Château de..."

Wed, 02 Feb 2011 18:00:42 +0000

“Upkeep of centuries-old buildings is an enormous drain for European institutions like the Château de Versailles, which is developing hotels and seeking to license its name for luxury watches and other products. Last month it opened an online boutique with offerings including a gold-and-ivory porcelain Marie Antoinette soup tureen and “Let Them Eat Cake” coconut candles.”

- Doreen Carvajal in a New York Times story, European Arts Institutions Learn to Raise Money.

The choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker traces images in...

Wed, 02 Feb 2011 01:39:26 +0000

The choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker traces images in sand with her feet in “Violin Phase,” part of the Museum of Modern Art’s Performance Exhibition Series. Photograph: Todd Heisler.

From the review: Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker Dances at MoMA in the New York Times.

"By now, only a few people refuse to understand that youth protests aren’t a protest against the..."

Tue, 04 Jan 2011 21:28:17 +0000

“By now, only a few people refuse to understand that youth protests aren’t a protest against the university reform, but against a general situation in which the older generations have eaten the future of the younger ones.”

- Giuliano Amato, an economist and former Italian prime minister, quoted in the New York Times: Lack of Jobs in Southern Europe Frustrates the Young.

"This is literature as sustenance. And it is commonplace in San Francisco, where the average annual..."

Tue, 07 Dec 2010 20:52:07 +0000

“This is literature as sustenance. And it is commonplace in San Francisco, where the average annual per capita expenditure on books is perennially among the highest in the nation. Same goes for booze — according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, San Francisco is the only city that ranks in the top three for both (New York is ninth by both measures).”

- Gregory Dicum in a post on San Francisco’s Bookstores and Readings Reflect a Lively Literary Scene for the New York Times (via).