An Elegant Explanation for Why Famous Men Constantly Get Caught Cheating
Testosterone does two things to men: 1) it makes them horny, and 2) it makes them more likely to take risks. Famous people (politicians, athletes,…
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Implement a Facebook Share Button Using a Single Line of Javascript
If you’ve messed with getting Facebook buttons on your site you know that there are a couple of ways to do it, but most of…
Left vs. Right-side Navigation: Which Big Sites Use Which?
I’m thinking about redesigning my theme again and I’m considering a few key design options: single vs. dual sidebars, and, if I go with a…
Misuse of the Word ‘Irony’
Irony is one word that has been getting massacred more and more lately–mostly because it’s become in-fashion to use it to appear intelligent. The way…
Abstract/Distant Future Bias | Daniel Miessler
All of these bring each other more to mind: here, now, me, us; trend-deviating likely real local events; concrete, context-dependent, unstructured, detailed, goal-irrelevant incidental features;…
A Bookmarklet That Displays HTTP Headers
I was looking for a Google Chrome extension that did something like Firefox’s Live HTTP Headers recently and tripped over this neat bookmarklet. It’s not…
Another Data Point in the iPhone vs. Android Debate: Re-sale Values
It’s pretty well accepted that one way to gauge something’s value is to see how it retains said value. One example would be, say, a…
Flattr, and Why It’s Brilliant
Flattr is an exciting new social networking / micro-payment service that allows you to set a donation amount that gets divided among all the different…
On Average, Mean, Median, and Mode
If you’re reading this you’re probably a bit geeky (like me), and you’ve no doubt been in at least 42 conversations about average vs. mean,…
Finding more vulnerabilities in vibe coded apps
Vibe coding is the latest trend sweeping through developer communities. It’s the art of describing a concept, feeding it to an AI, and letting the…
Options as the Main Cause of Unhappiness
I’m reading a Bertrand Russell book right now that talks about happiness and how to achieve it in the modern world. One of his main…
No, Jesus Did Not Soften the Old Testament–In Fact He Did the Opposite, and Here’s What That Means
Moderate Christians love to talk about how Jesus fixed the Old Testament, or, in other words, obsoleted the horribly offensive parts about slavery, keeping women…