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Marketing, branding, and memory, told around a company called River West that acquires the intellectual property around “dead” brands: “In most cases … gulfstream/2438

“A researcher uses his understanding of the human brain to advance on a popular quiz show.” gulfstream/2193

"Ads can alter memory claim scientists" gulfstream/519

What’s art? jwz’s link to that site about the 1988 MacSE with a 1923 Underwood typewriter as its keyboard generated these comments: atakra: … gulfstream/950

Weirdly-written piece on the iPod’s shuffle function: “Dan Cedarholm, a Web designer in Salem, Mass., insists that his iPod has a predilection … gulfstream/1532

Flash games produced by the Nobel Prize’s education/outreach division, completely inexplicable in purpose and design. Michele puts it well: … gulfstream/1927

Quotes Collected

[Harold] Bloom is famous for his memory and his reading speed. He has memorized a large proportion of canonical poetry written in English; once, when … quotes/256

That's the effect of living backwards," the Queen said kindly: "it always makes one a little giddy at first---" "Living backwards!" Alice repeated in … alice/37

But the really serious pressure came from my mother, who, before she died, had made it clear that there was no better way to honor her memory and validate … franzen/1

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Want to Remember Everything You'll Ever Learn? Surrender to This Algorithm
on memory, and an eccentric pole who created some software to help you remember

Troubleshooting Memory Usage
debugging out-of-memory problems on linux

BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Japanese breaks pi memory record

Seed: Who Wants to Be a Cognitive Neuroscientist Millionaire?
cognitive neuroscientist uses various memory techniques to come up with answers as a contestant on who wants to be a millionaire

LinuxDevCenter.com -- When Linux Runs Out of Memory

ArchitectNotes - Varnish - Trac
the design of varnish, a reverse proxy. supposedly written the way kernel code is now written (no distinction between ram and disk--let the kernel worry about paging)