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…
High quality intellectual output comes from high-quality intellectual input. People who don’t consume ideas tend not to have any. And if they do have some,…
Anyone who wishes to make advances in a particular intellectual area have essentially two options: Be an uber-deathgod-genius like Newton or Einstein, or: Learn everything…
I don’t like salesishness, so let’s be clear about two things: I’m trying to get this site to where it can support itself by referral…
If you read a lot but aren’t much into math you’ve probably heard the term standard deviation being tossed around, but didn’t know what it…
Something about realtime web analytics is just cool to me. I think it’s the idea of visualizing the interactions with distant objects. Well, people in…
CapitalizationWriting the first letter of a word in uppercase, and the rest of the letters in lowercase. Title CaseAll words are capitalized, except non-initial articles…
Jun 4, 2010 I’ve written before about how SocialTech’s main purpose is to present each of us as an API, and I want to expand…
Ideas suck. Ideas are everywhere and pop into our heads all of the time. Ideas are not the inspirational spark that ignites us into becoming…
While reading certain publications recently I’ve been paying a bit more attention to the typography and capitalization. The main thing I’ve been noticing is that…
So I just implemented memcached. It’s basically a system that uses hash tables to serve content directly from memory rather than from disk. It’s used…
My buddies and I are doing a Harn campaign right now and one of the mechanics involves accruing stat “checks” over time. Every five stat…
