October 2009
25 posts
“Based on my visual survey of downtown Boston last night, the most popular...”
– Twitter / Sean Hussey
Simple Desktops →
To Sweet Hereafter | Jason Santa Maria →
Is blight twixt Twix deliciousness?
“Looking back over human history, rationality has been the anomaly. Being...”
– An Epidemic of Fear: How Panicked Parents Skipping Shots Endangers Us All | Magazine
“This new fundamentalism reads passages that apply to disenfranchised people with...”
– the parish: The Future of Faith: Fundamentalism and Spirit
“The single problem of modern parents, mothers and fathers alike, is that they...”
– The Last Psychiatrist: Shouting vs. Spanking
The Gervais Principle, Or The Office According to... →
“For the record, many countries spell certain English words differently. For...”
– Twitter / Jason Sweeney
kd.to_tumblr - 5 Reasons Why Nerds Should Get The... →
You, as a card-carrying rational nerd, should get a flu shot, and I’m going to do my best to show you why.
“It’s said that Generation Y, the Generation of Divorce, has a particularly hard...”
– Shuffling and Muttering: Where the Wild Things Are
“As we solve larger and more complex problems with greater computational power...”
– The Status of the P Versus NP Problem | September 2009 | Communications of the ACM
TIME FOR SOME STORIES (davesecretary) | StoryLog:... →
“The wailing and gnashing of teeth that you hear among Republicans is 68 percent...”
– Op-Ed Contributor (Garrison Keillor) - Petulance and the Prize - NYTimes.com
“Organizational metrics, which are not related to the code, can predict software...”
– Exploding Software-Engineering Myths - Microsoft Research (via drawohara)
“This is the arms race. Build a detection system, and the bad guys try to frame...”
– Schneier on Security: The Commercial Speech Arms Race
“Get a drink, think about this: a reporter’s instinct wasn’t to go for the truth,...”
– The Last Psychiatrist: Wolf Blitzer Is Not An Idiot (via mattly)
“If excellence is a thing you do every day, tacit knowledge is a thing you pick...”
– Tacit knowledge and ninjas (via therealadam)
“Music is a basic need of human survival. Music is one of the ways we make sense...”
– Music: Essential for Life | RockOm
“Ms. Smith’s reaction to the virulent strain of E. coli was extreme, but tracing...”
– Woman’s Shattered Life Shows Ground Beef Inspection Flaws - NYTimes.com
“But by far the most interesting part of all of this have been dark users. Like...”
– PJF’s Pages - Journal - Dark Stalking on Facebook
“We’re not confident in how we’ve trained our kids and so we...”
– The Last Psychiatrist: Why Can’t Kids Walk Alone To School? Part 1