I’ve been very lucky these past few years, both personally and professionally. On my current project I’ve had the pleasure of meeting some great people, and work with two of the best and more dedicated developers I’ve met. Still, I’ve known my share of companies driven only by politics in the past, which [...]
A video from a conference with Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion, talking about how forcing a religion on a child is no different from any other coercion, and moreover can create problems for them when they are forced to break out of this pattern that their society expects them to conform to.
I’ve had [...]
A few months ago I’d referenced an article about how toxoplasma gondii, the parasite that causes toxoplasmosis, can alter the behavior of not only rats but humans. Now it turns out that it not only alters human behavior, but does so dependent on the person’s sex.
“Interestingly, the effect of infection is different between men [...]
One of those interesting albums I found on Jamendo, Zywiolak’s demo 2006 is a sort of darker, slightly heavier Dead Can Dance from Polland.
The notMac challenge is a project to raise a bounty of $10,000 to be used as a prize for anyone who can come up with an open-source replacement for Apple’s .Mac service.
The goal of the notMac Challenge is to create the incentive for someone to make an alternative dotMac solution available for the general public. [...]
I’m a libertarian. Among other things that means that if you wanna have entire walls of your home covered in guns, fine, have guns to your heart’s content. The NRA’s official purpose is to promote marksmanship and protect the right of people to own firearms, but lately they’ve become the Republican equivalent of [...]
I live in Costa Rica, and a series of earthquakes near Taiwan have damaged an underwater cable that provides internet access to all the major Asia ISPs, including the one for my server in Hong Kong.
I love this age.
A recent post by Jorge, over at Sunni Maravillosa and the Conspirators. He’s not very optimistic on the chances for actual freedom in the United States, and considering the news, why would he be?
People like to talk a lot about the power of the Internet to democratize content distribution and bring an audience to unknown little bands, right before they rush off to download the latest Madonna album from Kazaa.
Fortunately there’s a few sites like Jamendo, which are really focused on distributing albums of new bands and getting [...]
And not one, but two! Top that, Holy Ghost!