Irish atheists challenge blasphemy law at BBC News: "This new law is both silly and dangerous," he said. "It is silly because medieval religious laws have no place in a modern secular republic, where the criminal law should protect people and not ideas." (tagged: atheism Ireland news ) 10 Easy Ways to Green Your Web […]
Rob’s favorite books » Share book reviews and ratings with Rob, and even join a book club on Goodreads. One year, twenty-six books, 10,902 pages. Not including however many dozens of articles and short stories read in Wired, The New Yorker, and online…
20 Best Science Fiction Books Of The Decade at io9 (via B²) (tagged: literature scifi todo reading ) 30 Must See Web Generator for Lazy Webmasters Not sure where the "Webmasters" bit comes in but it's still a decent round-up of some useful graphic/widget generators. (tagged: web generator graphics ) Douglas Crockford — The State […]
JavaScript Framework Matrix “Overview with functions and examples” (tagged: javascript jQuery Ext framework reference work ) Yojimbo, and The Case for Anything Buckets by Shawn Blanc (via DF) — interesting redux of Yojimbo and there are some very compelling arguments in there (perhaps I should give it a shot?) (tagged: yojimbo Mac osx software review […]
Formula Found to Explain Earth’s Evenly Spaced Valleys at Yahoo! News (via JH) (tagged: via:kapowee math science geology todo ) The Heidi Klum of calculations at The Boston Globe (tagged: via:kapowee math science humor todo essay ) recovering lazyholic blog: phrase reduction via JH: I find it interesting that we are able to understand a […]
Download Every Single BBC Radio1 Essential Mix From 1993 To 2007 (tagged: bbc music mp3 house mixes ) Pre- and Post-Workout Meals in 15 Minutes at Active.com (tagged: via:aspiringlibrarian food recipe fitness exercise ) Mini DisplayPort to HDMI adapter available, HDCP compliant at Ars Technica (tagged: Apple Mac wishlist displayport hdmi hometheater ) Fiction’s Dirty […]
My Dad and Old Bay Seasoning at Al Dente — Old Bay is the 3rd best culinary invention after butter and bacon. (tagged: OldBay food ) 20 Developers to Follow on Twitter For me, the jury is still out on Twitter's staying power and whether/not the benefits outweigh the costs of following folks. The serendipity […]
CSS – Contents and compatibility – mobile at quirksmode.org (tagged: webdev css mobile selectors compatibility work research todo ) Nearly 400-Year-Old Maryland Beer Finally Available in Stores Washington City Paper: 1634 Ale is produced by Brewer’s Alley in Frederick, which has brewed the beer exclusively from ingredients that were available to colonists in the early […]
Nutella Frosted Cupcakes at Al Dente: oh man, these look dangerously good… (tagged: Nutella food todo ) Philip K. Dick Award Winners Announced: A Tie Between Castro and Walton at Omnivoracious (tagged: PKD literature scifi todo ) Daring Fireball: Complex at DF: Gall’s law raises hard questions. Where do you start? How small? How simple? […]
For this past Secular Humanist December Holiday, my lovely wife got me a subscription to The New Yorker. It has been quite a delight. A fun, erudite little magazine 1 that is as substantive as it is ephemeral, as sexy as it is straight-laced, as secular as it is… Jewish. At any rate: we’re enjoying it 2 […]