March 26th, 2005
Top 100 skylines
The top 100 city skylines from NoodleFood.
Archive for March, 2005
March 25th, 2005
I’m hiring
Are there any unemployed artists/web designers who follow my blog? Click.
March 25th, 2005
Free Software List
I often recommend free software to companies I work with, so I’ve decided to collect my recommendations in one place from now on: The Essential Free Windows Software List.
March 25th, 2005
Things were bound to go haywire when the Brits banned their ancient tradition of fox hunting: the foxes are now hunting dogs.
March 23rd, 2005
Saving Schiavo’s Soul
The ongoing debate over the fate of Terri Schiavo is a revealing example of the differences between a secular and a religious world view. Those who advocate that Terry be kept alive and those supporting her right to die have two very different conceptions of the soul. The difference is crucial because differences [...]
March 22nd, 2005
Interesting article in the NYT about pre-packaged government propaganda passed on by network news as real journalism.
March 13th, 2005
Nestle chief rejects the need to `give back’
Companies shouldn’t feel obligated to “give back’’ to the community, because they haven’t taken anything away, the Austrian-born chief of the world’s largest food company told local executives yesterday… “What the hell have we taken away from society by being a successful company that employs people?’’ he said.
March 13th, 2005
Against Software Patents
The following comes from a post on ObjectivismOnline. For more, see the original thread.
The protection of intellectual property requires the ability to create and apply an objective standard. Attempting to enforce intellectual property rights without the existence of an objective criteria or the ability to apply it violates real property rights, regardless of the [...]
March 7th, 2005
New Toy
My new phone. It speaks digital and analog, comes with a camera with zoom and flash, internal and external displays, speakerphone, and voice recognition for complete voice control. It weights 116g, has a talk time of 3 hours and a standby time of 150 hours. Its two-year-old ancestor seems like a dinosaur [...]
March 7th, 2005
Help with my Art Gallery
After 1&1 permanently nixed my online art gallery without any means of restoring it, I finally re-created it by re-uploading the originals, because my backup is hopelessly out of date. The new gallery needs a lot of work to restore the lost grandeur, so I am looking for volunteers to help me add the [...]
March 7th, 2005
NYC Photo Update
I’ve updated my New York City vacation photos after processing them with Picasa. What do you think?
March 5th, 2005
Want to see computers, refrigerators, boats and car parts being shredded into tiny bits? Check out the product demos of SSI.
March 4th, 2005
Evil and moral judgment
The following comes from a recent philosophy assignment. My task was to “discuss the meaning of each of the following five concepts: bad, wicked, evil, vicious, and immoral in the context of negative moral judgment.”
In the course of living in society, it is necessary to interact with many different individuals, each with a different [...]
March 3rd, 2005
De-policing
Story on the evening news: de-policing is a popular response to allegations of racial profiling. Cops are stopping fewer minorities in order to avoid creating statistical patterns that might implicate them or their departments in racial profiling.
Is anyone really surprised by this?
March 3rd, 2005
Picassa Trick: Subfolders
I was disappointed to see that Picassa doesnt support subfolders all folders are shown as a long list. But guess what, here is an undocumented trick direct from a Google employee: the My Pictures/Picassa folder is special. Any folders placed inside it will display in a hierarchy. Voila!”