Rants, Raves, and Rhetoric v4

Month: July 2007

  • links for 2007-07-31

    In defense of dangerous ideas :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Other Views (tags: economics philosophy politics questions science science.psychology)

  • links for 2007-07-30

    Edge: A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE By Steven Pinker “If the wars of the twentieth century had killed the same proportion of the population that die in the wars of a typical tribal society, there would have been two billion deaths, not 100 million.” (tags: philosophy history science.psychology science culture politics statistics community) The Evolutionary Psychology…

  • WebRunner

    Linux.com :: Mozilla begets WebRunner, a site-specific browser: Nowadays, people are turning to Web-based applications as replacements for desktop applications. Web-based office suites, mail clients, multimedia apps, and general productivity tools are all extremely useful now, but standard Web browsers aren’t always the best option for running applications. To provide a more suitable tool for…

  • Flash! Ahhhh-Aaah

    Anyone else looking forward to the new Flash Gordon (Aug 2007) series on SciFi? The mini-series Tin Man (Dec 2007) looks like it could be interesting as well. 

  • links for 2007-07-29

    mozdev.org – quotecollapse: index (tags: mozilla_thunderbird extensions) Quicktext – Hesslow Extensions (tags: mozilla_thunderbird extensions) In 12 million years, we’re deadSciam Observations: A blog from the editors of Scientific American (tags: science.astronomy)

  • links for 2007-07-27

    Thirteen Simple Rules for Speeding Up Your Web Site (tags: performance webdesign)

  • Brother and Sister Look at a Plane

    Brother and Sister Look at a Plane, originally uploaded by Ezra F. The boy's face says to me pure joy. Took this a while ago, but I forgot it was still on the data card. I found it while pulling off pictures of the board from the meeting this morning. Read and post comments |…

  • Brother and Sister Look at a Plane

    Brother and Sister Look at a Plane, originally uploaded by Ezra F. The boy’s face says to me pure joy. Took this a while ago, but I forgot it was still on the data card. I found it while pulling off pictures of the board from the meeting this morning.

  • Brother and Sister Look at a Plane

    Brother and Sister Look at a Plane, originally uploaded by Ezra F. The boy’s face says to me pure joy. Took this a while ago, but I forgot it was still on the data card. I found it while pulling off pictures of the board from the meeting this morning.