In response to this thread on Reddit: — Free will is a necessary delusion.…
Archives for August 2009
From Reddit: An Essay on Why It’s So Hard to Leave Religion
What follows is an excellent piece from Reddit on why leaving a religion can be…
A Wake-up Call for “Moderate Religion” Apologists
I have debated here at great length the degree of benefit or harm offered to society…
Password Reset Mechanisms: The Online Security Threat Nobody’s Talking About
Humans are notoriously poor at weighing risk. We use emotion, rather than reason,…
From Password Reset Mechanisms to OpenID: A Brief Discussion of Online Password Security
For those not familiar, OpenID is a system that allows you to sign in to multiple…
Extracting Meaning from Emptiness
It is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that life and existence are eternally justified.…
The Worst Sickness of All
I’ve noticed an ailment that a few of my male friends from the South have.…
How to Sign In to Facebook Using Google
So you have a Facebook account, right? And you use Google Mail, right? Good, then…
Gandhi Hated Black People, and MLK Was a Plagiarist
Many of our best people were really bad people. But I read a lot, so I already…
Federated ID, OpenID, and OAuth: A Web Authentication Primer
Federated ID Federated ID, also called Federated Identity Management (FIM), allows…
Pew: 32% of Americans Believe Humans Evolved Without Supernatural Influence
From a Pew poll. Few in the scientific community would debate Darwinian theory,…
A Brilliant Piece on Fashion
You’ll want to check out this piece over at Less Wrong on fashion. It’s…
Fascism is Upon Us, and Other Thoughts About Our Future
We’ll start with a couple of definitions:: Facism (Wikipedia) Comprises…
Racism Scopecreep in the Liberal Media
Image from edweek.org I like the New York Times; I think they produce an overall…
Updated Ruby Code for Querying IpInfoDB
This version adds two main features: avoids barfing if the array size is zero…
