Apropos other conversations I'm having online and IRL, here's a little information about skepticism.

In a nutshell, skepticism is a methodology, a way of searching for knowlege. It involves suspending judgement on the topic at hand and applying reason and logic to examine the claims and evidence. Only after examining the evidence will a skeptic ( Read more... )

Neill Cameron brings us The A to Z of Awesomeness.

Edited to add: you can go to Neill's blog and buy these as a poster! Proceeds benefit SSNAP - Support for the Sick Newborn And their Parents.

So, some more gun trolls are taking it upon themselves to be dicks again. This time, some of them are open-carrying at Starbucks in the Bay Area.

Here’s the thing. When you learn how to handle firearms, one of the things you’re supposed to learn is that they are tremendously powerful tools which are quite dangerous and should be handled with ( Read more... )

My company is looking for contractors and contract-to-hire people in the following professions ( Read more... )

Welcome to TL;DR Theatre, where we're presenting ZOMG WTF BANKING CRISIS, a play in two acts. This is Act II: "I Can Has Bailaut Nao?" in which we will talk about the choices we have for fixing this banking crisis.

Since this got a little long (okay, it got a lot long...hey, this is TL;DR Theatre, remember?), here's a quick Table of Contents:

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Good evening everyone and welcome to a very special edition of TL;DR Theatre, in which I'm going to present ZOMG WTF BANKING CRISIS, a play in two acts that attempts to explain the banking crisis we are currently facing. I've been doing a lot of reading and research on this, and though I don't have any formal education in business management, I do ( Read more... )

When you are running a business based on offering an online service of any sort to a userbase, the standard practices of usability say that the ONLY thing that matters is how the users view your site. Everything else is secondary at best, and often plain irrelevant. This is the Usability Prime Directive: Ignore your users at your peril ( Read more... )

Hey folks, The Fabric Lab needs your help.

The Fabric Lab, for those of you playing along at home, is a great local business run by Josh (one of the designers here at Texturemedia and generally all-around way talented dude) and his wife. The Fabric Lab showcases handmade items made by local designers: clothing, accessories, and other amazing ( Read more... )

Fred says "Hi."

For those of you wondering, there are a few things that are actually true in the preceeding story ( Read more... )