Here’s an interesting idea for an app: ReadQuick teaches you to read articles one word at a time. It’s meant to increase your overall reading speed and comprehension. I’d be very interested to see the results from this. Check out ReadQuick’s site or download the app (iOS only as of 2013-01-08) for more info. (via… Read more »
Posts Categorized: General Interest
Why W.E.B. DuBois Wouldn’t Vote
Very intriguing article on why DuBois wouldn’t vote in the 1956 presidental election. An excerpt: In 1956, I shall not go to the polls. I have not registered. I believe that democracy has so far disappeared in the United States that no “two evils” exist. There is but one evil party with two names, and… Read more »
Beer Predictive Voting
How accurate is it? (via the Save On Brew)
Freetail Brewing Does Not Like Groupon
No really, they don’t.
92 Year Old Supports Troops by Pirating DVDs
John Piper always talks about not wasting your life in retirement…is this what he meant? “It’s not the right thing to do, but I did it,” says a 92-year-old man from New York who has become something of a folk hero to the soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq who have been on the receiving end… Read more »