Anatomy of a Twitter Post: How to Obscure Narcissism with Wit
First, let’s state the obvious: you need a bit of ego to maintain a Twitter account. Not to experiment, but to keep doing it. To…
Category: Mix
Atheism: More Aggressive vs. Group, Less vs. Individuals
I think I’ve made a decision to be more direct in my attacks against beliefs in the supernatural (including religion). I make this decision based…
Git: Ignore WordPress Cache Files using .gitignore
I’ve had a nagging problem for some time where I couldn’t figure out quite how to ignore my wp-content/cache directory when doing syncs with git.…
Use Splunk as Your Remote Syslog Server
So I’ve been messing with Splunk> a bit recently, and as part of that I’ve been sending logs from iptables, snort, and apache–not to mention…
![Religious Moderates Are Those Who Reject God’s Clearly Stated Commands Using Their Own [Human] Morality as Justification](https://image.cybernoz.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Religious-Moderates-Are-Those-Who-Reject-Gods-Clearly-Stated-Commands.png)
Religious Moderates Are Those Who Reject God’s Clearly Stated Commands Using Their Own [Human] Morality as Justification
I’ve written before about my issues with religious moderates who build their own religions by arbitrarily rejecting and embracing various pieces of their chosen holy…
Scenario Prepping as an Investment Strategy
I had an interesting idea last week about investing. The idea is that you get a bunch of experts in history, economics, politics, and sociology…
When is an Idea Ridiculous?
I’ve been debating here for quite some time the question of how direct, or even confrontational, to be with those who make strong and specific…
A Simple Script for Harvesting DNS, Country, State, and City Information From a List of IP Addresses
My buddy at work asked me if I could find some location information for a list of IPs. I knew of the GeoIP / GeoLite…
A Deductive Moral Argument for Helping Those Who Fail
There is no supernatural origin of free will. All human action is the product of the interaction of a finite number of variables. These variables…
Twitter Explained in Three Paragraphs
People struggle with why Twitter is special. It’s special because it counters, better than any other technology, the timeless social obstacle of “out of sight,…
Does Your Morality Come from God or From Within?
One of the most common arguments from the religious is that without God there would be no morality. Non-believers reject this, and there’s an easy…
Three Ways of Learning About the World
There are three fundamental ways of learning about the world, and they map well to concepts we’re all familiar with: Philosophy: Determine the nature of…