Atheism: More Aggressive vs. Group, Less vs. Individuals
I was looking for a Google Chrome extension that did something like Firefox’s Live HTTP Headers recently and tripped over …
Read MoreAnatomy of a Twitter Post: How to Obscure Narcissism with Wit
Anyone who wishes to make advances in a particular intellectual area have essentially two options: Be an uber-deathgod-genius like Newton …
Read MoreTwitter Explained in Three Paragraphs
If you read a lot but aren’t much into math you’ve probably heard the term standard deviation being tossed around, …
Read MoreThe Connected Web: Why It’s Time For Strong Authentication
I don’t like salesishness, so let’s be clear about two things: I’m trying to get this site to where it …
Read MoreThree Ways of Learning About the World
High quality intellectual output comes from high-quality intellectual input. People who don’t consume ideas tend not to have any. And …
Read MoreDoes Your Morality Come from God or From Within?
Moderate Christians love to talk about how Jesus fixed the Old Testament, or, in other words, obsoleted the horribly offensive …
Read MoreA Simple Script for Harvesting DNS, Country, State, and City Information From a List of IP Addresses
Jun 4, 2010 I’ve written before about how SocialTech’s main purpose is to present each of us as an API, …
Read MoreA Deductive Moral Argument for Helping Those Who Fail
My buddies and I are doing a Harn campaign right now and one of the mechanics involves accruing stat “checks” …
Read MoreStandards For Addition to Twitter, Facebook, Friendfeed, and LinkedIn
So I just implemented memcached. It’s basically a system that uses hash tables to serve content directly from memory rather …
Read MoreModerate vs. Extremist Religion
While reading certain publications recently I’ve been paying a bit more attention to the typography and capitalization. The main thing …
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