Eric’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Idea: steampunk star wars: Inspired by this neat little project, I decided I wanted to reimagine the Star Wars universe in a steampunk context. I know, whenever anyone reimagines anything, they either make it a) adult and edgy (99%) or b) steampunk (1%), so I’m not getting any […]
Read MoreDissertation Advice: The point is: what are you trying to show? The point is: what is your point? If you can get that straight in your head, and put it up front at the beginning of your document, you will be able to proceed in a straight line. You will know what things are essential, […]
Read MoreLiveScience.com – The Rich See What They Believe: The Rich See What They BelieveBy Jeanna BrynerLiveScience Staff Writerposted: 28 February 200704:22 pm ET People see what they believe, not vice versa, when it comes to social injustice. And this mind-altering trick of perception keeps moral outrage at bay, especially among the rich, a new psychological […]
Read MoreFrancis Wheen | Top 10s | Guardian Unlimited Books: 2. The market is rationalFinancial sophisticates in the 21st century smile at the madness of the South Sea Bubble or the absurdity of the Dutch tulip craze. Yet only a few years ago they scrambled and jostled to buy shares in dotcom companies which had no […]
Read MoreThe Web’s Best Interface Design  Business Logs: The Web’s Best Interface Design The amount of new web applications, features, and companies sprouting up is just astounding, and while some like to characterize “Web 2.0” design as involving lots of cliché diagonal lines and shadows it still takes a lot of skill to execute an […]
Read MoreDr. Joan Bushwell’s Chimpanzee Refuge : In th’ethic of ruinous “modern” standards: “Ethics” can be rewritten and as ostensibly objective principles are no less malleable than the DSM-IV criteria for various versions of “crazy.” Humanism? That grasps something a little more unyielding and a lot more desirable, but one wonders how timeless a concept it, […]
Read MoreThe New York Nerd » The Smartest Man: ——- this is not as funny as it should be.
Read Moredmiessler.com | study | hide_ip: Just remember that proxies aren’t magical; they simply add extra hops in the middle. Each person still has an address (you, your buddy, and the pizza place). So don’t think of it as “hiding” or “becoming invisible”; this isn’t how the Internet works. The Internet needs to know your exact […]
Read MoreVersion 3.0 Launched – Creative Commons: The latest version of the Creative Commons licenses  Version 3.0  are now available. To briefly recap what is different in this version of the licenses: Separating the “generic†from the US license
Read MoreNew SLURL directory available: New SLURL directory available Filed under: News —- it already had some of my builds…
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