From a Vatican press release, February 26, regarding violence between Christians and Muslims in Nigeria and Iraq.
“The fruit of faith in God,” the Pope concluded, “is not devastating rivalry but the spirit of brotherhood and of collaboration for the common good. God, Creator and Father of everyone, will call more severely to account those who [...]

From years 5-9 I went to an expensive Catholic boys college. Private boys school is not a good place to be an intelligent and introverted person. It is a good place to be a low browed sport oriented thug who likes bullying them however. Certain people still bubble up out of the [...]

From the Arcade History Database.

Apart from being a fine game, Tetris is also a perfect mirror of the human condition. For a while the game is entertaining, and we seem to have mastered it and are having fun. Then, something goes wrong. A rash mistake, or an unfulfilled wish, and we’re fighting to repair the [...]

Mark passes on a tip for the hard of sleeping :
Rather than having a task to do of going to sleep: “Aarrgh, it’s 11:30, I need to get to sleep now, I’ve got to be up in 7 hours”.You just go to bed for a rest, and let it happen. If you sleep, you sleep, [...]

OK so I assume you’ve heard of the whole Mohammed cartoons thing by now. Capsule review, Muslims are forbidden to create an image of Mohammed, in case that leads to worship of Mohammed or the image instead of Allah, Danish newspaper printed some political cartoons portrating Mohammed. As an aside, there are far too many [...]

Why is it that when a person is redundant, you give them a months notice and maybe a payout, but when a server or network component is not redundant, you spend tens of thousands of dollars making it so?

US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Monday: “President Washington, President Lincoln, President Wilson, President Roosevelt have all authorized electronic surveillance on a far broader scale.”
From Yahoo News
This in spite of Washington dying in 1799 and Alexander Graham Bell’s first demonstration of the telephone being in 1875.
It’s a little known fact[1] however, that both Marconi and [...]

The kids and I have wanted to play with stop motion animation for ages. Since we got a video camera for ourselves for Christmas we can finally do it.
We grabbed a free stop motion application called SingleFramer (OSX only). It pretty much has no features, just onion skinning which allows you to see what your [...]

When I was about 19 I think, there was a huntsman on the ceiling in my room. I used to be ok with that. One night I walked into my room in the dark, and a moth that was flying around hit me in the head. I did not know it was [...]