I feel like I cannot be the only one who is disgusted every time I walk through someones exhaled cigarette smoke while walking on a public sidewalk or entering/exiting a public building. In populous areas, this equates to every few steps. People crowd around the doors to their establishments, which happen to be right on the sidewalk, and…
Archives for March 2012
Another Way to be Immortal
I wrote a few years ago about the only way I knew of to become immortal. Basically, it was the simple concept of understanding the brain well enough to transfer its characteristics to a digital form before dying. Check it out if you have a moment. But perhaps there’s another way. What if you could manifest within others…
Getting Real IP Addresses Using CloudFlare, Nginx, and Varnish
CloudFlare is a great service that proxies your site’s traffic in order to offer performance gains and filtering options. It can compress and cache static content such as CSS files, JavaScript, and image files and then geographically optimize how they’re given to your users (think CDN). One annoying issue, however, is the fact that because it’s a proxy…
Thoughts on Sam Harris’ Book on Free Will
Sam Harris’s book on free will came out today and I read it during dinner (it’s a short read). Here’s what I had to say about the book back in December when he announced it: I basically anticipate an extremely high-quality summary of my numerous articles, posts, and debate interactions on this topic. Without arrogance or humility I…