HAPPY FESTIVUS, FRIENDS. Let's sing some Ramona Falls:

News:

• How you know by Paul Graham. Analogies-only-go-so-far warning, but this one works extremely well. Via HN.
  "Reading and experience train your model of the world. And even if you forget the experience or what you read, its effect on your model of the world persists. Your mind is like a compiled program you've lost the source of. It works, but you don't know why."
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  "reading and experience are usually "compiled" at the time they happen, using the state of your brain at that time. The same book would get compiled differently at different points in your life. Which means it is very much worth reading important books multiple times. I always used to feel some misgivings about rereading books. I unconsciously lumped reading together with work like carpentry, where having to do something again is a sign you did it wrong the first time. Whereas now the phrase "already read" seems almost ill-formed."
• Why virtual reality doesn't need a killer app to get huge.
• Submarine Sandwich, by PES.
• The triumphant rise of the shitpic, via waxy links.