As I debate with people about public health care as a specific, and about giving…
Archives for July 2009
Conservative Cognitive Dissonance on Public Healthcare
There’s a saying in atheism circles that aims to show Christian hypocrisy…
If You’re Not Experiencing Some Failure, You’re Not Taking Enough Risk
I just came across a really interesting concept, which I’ll call “Living…
An Empty Existence
Imagine you went to sleep one night and awoke to find yourself sitting at a table,…
Ruby: Parsing an IP List to Send to IpInfoDB
The code below does the following: Read a list of IPs Send each line (IP) to the…
What’s Your Favorite Pen?
I like pens. I’m a Moleskine fan (yeah, one of those guys), and I like having…
A Word on my Distaste for Conditional Friendship
One thing that bothers me severely is the concept of a conditional friendship.…
Why Your Website Needs a “Discovered Content” Section
One of the advantages of social content sharing is that if I like what you write…
News Entertainment: The Latest Chapter of Greed and Stupidity
Sometime within the last couple months I’ve realized that CNN and Fox (and…
NYC Crime Visualizations
Few things get me as excited as data visualization. I seriously love the stuff,…
PageRank for People Rather Than URLs
This is an interesting post about how the concept of PageRank for URLs is becoming…
Aggregating and Displaying Your Discovered Content Using Google’s Feed API
So I finally accomplished something with the site I’ve been wanting to do…
Redirecting a Domain Using .htaccess
Here’s how to redirect from one domain to another within Apache using .htacess.…
Feel vs. Features: The iPhone Now #1 in Japan
I think my argument for feel vs. features has been thoroughly supported over the…
The Highest Stage of Human Awareness
The highest form of human awareness comes through a number of realizations and…
