The title of this post at dagolden.com really struck me. The post, about a new CPAN client that doesn’t mimic the “swiss army chainsaw” mentality of the Perl community’s approach to software design, is apt in its critique not only of the project itself, but of its reception by the community. There is a religious type zeal some people express when ( Read more... )

Google and the End of Science: Bringing it all back Hume By Anton Wylie

is a (surprisingly) well written romp across the philisophical grounds for this:

The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete By Chris Anderson

Not what I was expecting from a Reg article, honestly, but fun. If anyone is interested in discussing ( Read more... )

People labor hard to gain contentment
Though success is very far from sure;
But how can they be happy if they do not labor,
Those whose joy is in the work itself?

And since I never have enough of pleasure,
Honey on the razor's edge,
How could I have enough of merit,
Fruits of which are happiness and peace?

The elephant, tormented by the noonday ( Read more... )

I stole some time in the last day to dip into two series I’ve meant to pick up for a while.

Animal Man : “Deus Ex Machine” The run of revived Animal Man written by Grant Morrison. I’ve enjoyed a lot of art whose artists decided to cast it as a “comic”; this is a comic in the most obvious, underwear pervert sense of the word, and it excels as a ( Read more... )

The creators of Solar Empire and Galactic Civilization II are touting on the IGN blog that the lack of DRM on their games’ installation media as prime examples of how DRM is unnecessary in the digital media market. They’re right too, and have proven it with millions of dollars in sales. However, I don’t believe even they understand why.

The author ( Read more... )

What a kick-ass quote, huh?

Mencius, or Meng K`e, was the second most influential COnfucian philosopher (after you-guess-who.) A book of his sayings, simply called the Mencius, was common school reading in China for centuries. Check it out and you might see why ( Read more... )

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