But it comes from a bunch of icky, umm... you know... libertarians.

The Drug War's Collateral Damage: Drug prohibition militarizes our police, enriches our enemies, undermines our laws, and condemns our sick to suffering.

My only worry is that with all the power and militarization the police have been the happy recipients of, with the pervasive " ( Read more... )

I got this from svairini. I've never really felt comfortable with the whole of "live each day as if it were your last" homily. This person has a much better idea:

Live as if Today was a Quantum Superposition of the the Rest of your Life

It's Mandlebrot, the fractal teddy-bear!

A little scary, very amusing, geeky and silly all at the same time.

SQLite is the Unixey equivalent of Microsoft Access. A cheap, simple database for random use. Of course, it has no fancy GUI or integration with Visual Basic to make fancy forms or anything like that. It just does SQL, and does it reliably and well within its problem domain.

So, now I have an answer for some people who want to use Microsoft ( Read more... )

And it took me quite awhile to find it. So I'm saving the link for posterity...

How various disciplines rank against eachother.

It can figure out how to get from anywhere to anywhere!

I just saw a car I would actually like to drive! It's expensive, but oh so worth it. I'll have to wait a year or two if I want one. :-)

It's the Tesla Roadster.

Sark today sought to quell the growing controversy over his decision to grant the MCP control of several major ports throughout the region. ... continued at the other end of this link

Political partisans ignore inconveniently contradictory statements when uttered by a candidate of their chosen party. Yet, they pick up on them when they're uttered by a politically neutral candidate, or a candidate of the opposing party. I would've liked to have seen a study of people who don't think of themselves as belonging to a particular ( Read more... )

Beef Coke that is. It is the doom of man.