I have a specific site in mind, and I can't find it for the life of me. It's a consciously minimalist design, about 5 stories per day, summarized. The stories are all in a single column, on a single page, black text on a white background. Clean as clean can be.
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posted by scamper
on Feb 27, 2013 -
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I'm a guy, I don't follow football at all, but a friend has invited me to his Super Bowl party. How do I attend without it being awkward?
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posted by indubitable
on Jan 27, 2011 -
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Could somebody summarise the end of
Lost in a paragraph? I can't wade through the post on the green; it appears to be all reaction and not a lot of content. Assume the Wikipedia article doesn't do it for me. Take this summary of BSG (Spoiler!) as a benchmark:
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posted by obiwanwasabi
on May 25, 2010 -
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What are best enterprise level Web Analytic / Stat programs that work with IIS and Apache sever logs?
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posted by wcfields
on Mar 10, 2010 -
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Can you recommend a good replacement for the "Today's Papers" feature on Slate.com? I liked that it surveyed a bunch of news/newspaper sites, and then they were conveniently summarized in one article.
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posted by bluefly
on Oct 21, 2009 -
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My approach to academic papers is to read through once, then go back and type up notes on it. The problem is that my notes serve two functions: summary and commentary. What's the best software for making synopses of academic papers with personal annotated notes?
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posted by painquale
on Nov 18, 2008 -
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i want something sort of like
this, only more to my liking. recommendations, please.
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posted by gcat
on Apr 17, 2008 -
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I'm looking for a concise and readable overview/guide of what could be considered "classic literature" for a mature ESL student.
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posted by Phire
on Nov 15, 2007 -
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How can I keep up with television spread memes without watching (much) tv?
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posted by yohko
on Oct 24, 2007 -
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I've just finished re-reading the 4 books in the Rama series by Arthur C. Clarke and Gentry Lee, and was wondering about the sequels by Lee solo, set in the same universe, which by all accounts are not very good. Has anyone read them, and would you like to summarise?
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posted by Orange Goblin
on Mar 7, 2005 -
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I have always enjoyed reading the summaries that often appear in the Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data (the small type at the beginning of the book that includes the date of publication, etc.) of books for young people. Just because they're amusing, I'll provide an example:
Poinsettia and the Firefighters by Felicia Bond
Summary: Poinsettia the Pig feels lonely and afraid of the dark until she learns that there is someone else awake and keeping watch all night: the fire fighters.
Why are these summaries there? Why don't books for adults have them?
posted by bubukaba
on Feb 3, 2005 -
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