We’re all familiar with the occasional maulings that take place during language translation, and most of them are harmless enough to be ignored. There’s one in the Bible, however, that is so massive that very few people know about it, and those that do rarely speak of it. Love your neighbor as yourself. — Jesus 22:36-40 As it…
Archives for May 2007
The iPhone’s Killer App: Address Book
Yes, Address Book. The fact that the iPhone runs OS X and I can sync my contacts (with metadata) between my mobile device and laptop is invaluable to me. Sure, the iPhone looks nice and has some cool features and a wicked UI, but I have over 250 contacts and I like their associated pictures, multiple phone numbers,…
The Nice Guy Paradox
Most guys know about the nice guy paradox. It’s where they’ve been told since they were young — both by women and by society in general — that women like “nice” guys. And because they’ve been told this over and over, most guys grow up trying this approach only to have reality kick them in the groin. This…
My Future: The Semantic Web and RDF
No technology interests me more than the semantic web. I have no doubt that I will spend many years working on projects related to this vision — starting now. The concept captures my ‘grep understanding knowledge‘ theme beautifully, which is probably why it draws me so. From Wikipedia: The semantic web is an evolving extension of the World…
Gallup Poll Shows Education Linked To Religious Belief
Believe in the literal word of the Bible is strongest among those whose schooling stopped with high school and declines steadily with educational level, with only 20% of college graduates holding that view and 11% of those with an advanced degree. So, people who believe the literal word of the Bible: 31% total. 20% if you have a…
5 Ron Paul Quotes That Scare Me
Those of you who read this site know that I’ve been heavily promoting Ron Paul as a candidate for President in 2008. Until today all of my posts about him have been positive. But alas, I am not a fanboy. I heap praise when I like something, and I call attention when I see something that doesn’t look…
How I Search For Understanding: An Apology
My favorite thing to do is try and understand how the world works. This is what gives me go, and it’s the purpose of this website. Whenever I have something shown to me, or I “discover” something I add it to my ever increasing body of knowledge that I use to analyze the rest of the world. Ultimately,…
Judging Risk Based On Genetic Testing
I was just taking a shower and had a frightening idea. With all this talk of the National ID program, and the inclusion of biometric identification into the system, I started thinking about other trends in technology that could impact it. So the main danger, critics argue, of the National ID system is that as it becomes prolific…
The Bible is Fiction: A Collection Of Evidence
Similarities to Other Stories Unavoidable Contradictions The Logical Explanation Similarities to Other Stories The similarities between the stories and characters in the Bible and those from previous mythologies are both undeniable and well-documented. This would be obvious if it weren’t for early indoctrination of these beliefs into children, which usually makes them unassailable as adults. In this short…
How Many American’s View Atheism
What I mean by this title is that there are many American’s who are sympathetic to the idea that “real” American’s love God, and that if you don’t love God you should not be here. I, for example, feel that way about this country to a significant extent, i.e. I feel that if you hate this country you…
The iPhone Will Dominate, But Not Because Of Features/Functionality
So the iPhone is getting ready to come out in June and I’m hearing a lot of press about how this phone or that phone is better than it already, and that it’s too late for it to make a splash. I disagree. People keep talking about features, and I think they are missing the point. Sure, there…
Studying Religion and Atheism From Different Perspectives
I read in a review of Christopher Hitchens’s book God Is Not Great that he approaches the argument for atheism differently than his predecessors and contemporaries. Here’s the breakdown: Bertrand Russell — Philosophy Richard Dawkins — Science Christopher Hitchens — Literature I like this diversity of approaches, and I’ve just purchased Hitchens’ book and will be reading it…
Vulnerability Management Without Asset Management, Isn’t
I’ve been doing some work for a client recently in the realm of vulnerability management. It’s an interesting area of information security because it draws on so many disciplines. The single biggest thing I’ve learned about this problem is the criticality of asset management. Quite simply, you can’t hope to “manage” what you don’t know about. What I’d…
The Nice Guy Paradox [Solved]
Most guys know about the nice guy paradox. It’s where they’ve been told since they were young — both by women and by society in general — that women like “nice” guys. And because they’ve been told this over and over, most guys grow up trying this approach only to have reality kick them in the groin. This…
Firefox Quicksearches + Google Keywords = Sick Power
Back in 2005 I wrote about how you can use Firefox Quicksearches to vastly reduce your search time. You do this by adding a key-character for searches, such as “g” for Google, and “w” for Wikipedia. Then you just do a ctrl/cmd-L to get to Firefox’s URL bar, and then type: g ron paul …to search for Ron…
The Real Reason Education Matters
I think a lot about education. What it is, how it’s best carried out, and when it matters and when it doesn’t. Many like to discount what education offers, but the question itself depends on what you value in life. Education allows intellectual progress. Without it, developments and advances start from a primitive state, i.e. one that is…