Includes stuff about anything where feedback causes the system to adapt, including the systems of nature, those that are man-made or cultural, and those of the human mind.
Pardon my French, but what the f***?!?! Not about the attempt itself — horrifying as that is — but why the hell are we only hearing about it now?! Why didn’t someone start screaming bloody murder about it the moment the information was made available, a month ago?!
As mentioned before, I love a good self-help book. I’ve read dozens of them, maybe hundreds. I’ve learned a lot about life and how best to live it, but I’m not very good at articulating it. This fellow managed to fit the most important parts onto a single page, and he’s gotten pretty much everything …
…now all you have to do is fix the economy, win the war on terrorism, and part the Red Sea, and you might just be remembered as something more than the first African-American US President. Good luck. I suspect you’re going to need it.
…and the only guy that scares the piss out of the Antichrist.” (With thanks to today’s Dilbert Blog entry.)
I love seeing politicians being caught in their own traps.
A very interesting look at the problems with human perception, and how that affects our understanding of ourselves.
In a conversation a while back, I needed a word to express the opposite of authoritarian. I couldn’t find one in my memory, which struck me as odd, so I later looked it up. It seems that there is no English word that describes the opposite of authoritarian; the closest thing I found, after perusing …
I was reading a LifeHacker post on How to (Not) Get Banned from Commenting this morning, when I ran across this section: Do you ban readers who criticize your posts? Nope. We thrive on constructive criticism. We’re always listening to what you have to say and trying to improve. If you do think something we …
The DMCA (the Draconian Media Clobbering Act… sorry, I mean the Digital Millennium Copyright Act) has been used for some pretty jaw-droppingly stupid things since it was passed. This is just one of them, but it’s an important one, because the court just told copyright holders that they will be punished if they demand that …
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For those uber-geeks who are still following the ridiculous SCO-versus-Novell lawsuit, it looks like the end is (finally!) near: in a stunningly apropos reversal, SCO (which instigated the lawsuit) has been ordered to pay Novell for violating their rights. They probably won’t have the money, but it’s a moral victory, at least.