I recommend "A Guide to the Good Life" by William Irvine. The title is a bit off-putting, but it gives a good survey of the philosophy and history of stoicism along with good examples of applying it to modern life. After reading it, you might have a better sense of which primary sources will be most relevant to what you're looking for.
They are much harder to sterilize, and autoclaves don't work. Ideally you'd dispose all tools exposed to prions, but if that's infeasible, the CDC recommends an autoclave in a bath of NaOH.
1) This is true on the mac too, but it's option instead of ctrl. (option + arrows, option + shift + arrows). It's certainly not common for apps to break this afaik.
Looks like their plan is to reuse the ocaml compiler backends that output javascript; but it doesn't sound like they're doing anything explicit to promote Reason -> Javascript compilation.
This is a really cool idea, and I like the newsletter layout. My only critique is that it's not immediately clear what the site is for, and the paragraph that spells it out (top-left), is not in a position that I would tend to read first (I went logo then skim "Art of the Propogator" quote). It may be worth considering giving that paragraph a more prominent place, at least for the first few editions (or maybe just the web version, since presumably people know why they gave you their email address).
It's basically a format that lets you transmit data somewhat more extensibly than JSON would on its own (and doesn't take a huge performance hit).
This means that you can for example, transmit an array of dates and not need to worry about parsing the dates in the right location when you receive them.
Additionally, it's extensible, so you can define formats for any domain specific data that you're dealing with, if you need to.
They're suggesting not using this for storage at the moment since the spec is still in flux. But I think once the spec stabilizes, that seems reasonable.
Safari does something very similar on 10.9. I think it looks at the titles of all the tabs and tries to find the sections that have least commonality between them (not just common prefix).