When a Tree Falls in the Forest…
Saturday, July 19th, 2008I'm pretty sure this one made a sound. The tree had roots so large that it took out a huge section of ground with it. There is actually another tree growing out of the now vertical ground.
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I'm pretty sure this one made a sound. The tree had roots so large that it took out a huge section of ground with it. There is actually another tree growing out of the now vertical ground.
An Open Letter to Hewlett Packard
Thursday, July 17th, 2008Hewlett Packard has long been a shining example (despite the controversy about pretexting in 2006) of how to run a technology company. Many people are reading this on a Hewlett Packard computer, sitting next to a Hewlett Packard printer and resting their hands on a Hewlett Packard keyboard. But does ...
Scientology vs Evangelical Christianity
Sunday, July 13th, 2008Just about all Scientologists would be insulted to be compared to Evangelicals. The same is true for Evangelicals. But does one really make any more sense than the other? This article will attempt to compare the two very different religions and come to the conclusion that they are at least ...
3 Stupid World Bank Energy Projects
Saturday, July 12th, 20081. Chad-Cameroon Oil Pipeline Description: The Chad oil pipeline was originally designed to "generate revenues for Chad’s poverty reduction," The project was approved and construction began. However, things quickly fell through with the Chad government and the World Bank as less and less money went to poverty reduction. The problem was settled, ...
Making Digg Attack Sites For You
Sunday, July 6th, 2008People have hacked Digg before. This guy found an xss injection that allowed him to force users to Digg his articles. Digg happily patched the problem and went on with their business. However, there is another problem with Digg that has to do with their content parsing system. The difference ...
7 Things To Do With The Pipe In a Linux Shell
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008The pipe is the vertical line above your enter key. It looks like this without the quotes: "|". Using the pipe character in the Linux shell allows you to string commands together, performing another command on the output from the first. This is a list of 10 things you can ...
Problems With Life Extension: The Brain
Monday, June 30th, 2008Introduction With the development of modern science came an ambition to live forever. The desire to live forever goes back almost as far as history. Religions often promise eternal life in a different form, but what about a real life extension application developed by science? In the past few decades money ...
7 Ways Religion is Detrimental to Science
Saturday, June 28th, 2008In the past, science has been limited to the boundaries religion places on it. As long as science did not conflict with the ideas of the regional religion, then all was good. However, science is going to conflict with religion. Scientific facts will grow further and further away from religion. ...