by Carl Howard | Sep 7, 2012 | Blog Topics, Links
Amusing: if Shakespeare wrote Javascript A sobering look at the recent Pussy Riot verdict: in addition to the 3 members who got several years, another man is facing a much longer prison term but is not being covered by international media. The ultimate Streisand...
by Carl Howard | Aug 31, 2012 | Blog Topics, Links
The attack of the straw feminists Massimo Pigliucci on The Ethics of Belief: a classic of skepticism from the 19th century that argues that “it is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence”. Natalie Reed’s...
by Carl Howard | Aug 24, 2012 | Blog Topics, Links
From the annals of stupidity: Nook ereader does an auto-replace in some books of “Kindle” with “Nook”. The result: a charming passage in War and Peace about how the soldiers had nookd their fires Another Onion classic: power grid restored in India meaning 300 million...
by Carl Howard | Aug 17, 2012 | Blog Topics, Links
Nice [alleged] quote I just learned about from Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) on whether other worlds are inhabited: “A sad spectacle. If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly. It they be not inhabited, what a waste of space.” [Source] Amazing science bit I...
by Carl Howard | Aug 10, 2012 | Blog Topics, Links
A particularly spectacular bit of the world I’ve just seen for the first time Horseshoe Bend, Arizona Via Jerry Coyne, an unintentionally accurate German ad for the Quran Natalie Reed on trigger warnings, their philosophy, use, misuse and abuse. What’s it like to be...
