Extracting Meaning from Emptiness
We’re all well aware of the growing list of high-quality universities offering free online classes. It’s remarkable by any measure. …
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A Wake-up Call for “Moderate Religion” Apologists
I’ve been a role-player since junior high school, and I have been a reader of non-fiction long before that. I …
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Pew: 32% of Americans Believe Humans Evolved Without Supernatural Influence
I have a basic test I put myself through when I think about whether my work and/or my life has …
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Gandhi Hated Black People, and MLK Was a Plagiarist
Sometime around this week marks one year that I’ve been back home in the Bay Area. It’s been the best …
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Federated ID, OpenID, and OAuth: A Web Authentication Primer
So I had one of my posts make the front page of Reddit on Friday. I ended up taking around …
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A Brilliant Piece on Fashion
Anyone who’s tried to learn to enjoy coffee, beer, or wine after not liking their first encounters with them has …
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Updated Ruby Code for Querying IpInfoDB
So my #1 issue in Table Tennis right now is getting angry, which results in a tightness that precludes the …
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A Philosophical Precipice
(cleaning out some notes I had jotted down. Now I’m putting them here instead) Religion needs to die because people …
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Racism Scopecreep in the Liberal Media
I was reading the blogroll over at Overcoming Bias and, naturally, encountered quite a number of economics-focused blogs. What struck …
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Fascism is Upon Us, and Other Thoughts About Our Future
Oct 11, 2010 My favorite thing to do is determine why complex things happen. Some examples include why over half …
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