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I hadn’t kept up with the Flying Spaghetti Monster movement for a while. It really seems to be gaining a lot of traction. In addition to many downloadable wallpapers, they now have a whole bunch of printable brochures, flyers, posters, etc., many of which are quite well done.

But the funniest happenings have to be some [...]

A good week ago, I decided to install Kubuntu Linux at home, replacing my previous Gentoo Linux installation.

Overall I was very happy with Gentoo, and it still ranks high among my favorite Linux distributions. But while it was cool to have a system that was built from source and therefore (at least in theory) [...]

Here’s one way to compare the Ruby and Java technology stacks.

(via the Ruby on Rails Blog)

Update: Here’s the true origin of this comparison.

Andy Hunt of the Pragmatic Programmers has coined a new term:

déjà fubar | ˌdā zh ä ˈfoōˌbär | noun

That sinking feeling that you’ve made this very same mistake before. Maybe even many times before.

I love it (and know it well…).

For a little over half a year now, I’ve enjoyed owning the top of the line iPod model, the 60GB iPod Photo. Sure, there had been a few interesting new models (such as the iPod Nano), but if you were looking for a large storage model, the 4th generation 60GB iPod Photo was the best [...]

Here is a great article from the July 2002 edition of Scientific American: 15 Answers to Creationist Nonsense.

The article contains 15 great answers to typical points that creationists use to attack the theory of evolution. There are also some good links to additional resources at the end, such as Skeptic Magazine. I might have to [...]

Apparently a woman was forced to leave a Southwest Airlines plane for wearing an offensive T-Shirt. The shirt bore pictures of Bush, Cheney, and Rice, along with the caption “Meet the Fuckers”, a play on the recent movie title “Meet the Fockers”. I actually saw the exact same shirt at a store in San Francisco [...]

Google has just released a beta version of their RSS Reader. I gave it a quick whirl, but so far it hasn’t blown me away. In typical Google style, the layout and UI is nice and clean (and very similar to Gmail). Contrary to other aggregators (such as Bloglines), Google Reader only displays a single [...]

Mozilla has unveiled the Lightning roadmap. Lightning is Mozilla’s next generation calendaring application and intended to integrate with the Thunderbird email client. It appears to replace Mozilla’s previous Sunbird calendaring tool. Lightning 0.1, which is scheduled to be released some time in November, will mainly focus on bug fixes and WebDAV calendar support. Improved Thunderbird [...]

Recently I’ve been using YAML files along with some Ruby scripts as a simple and convenient mechanism for importing content into our database. The YAML files will be maintained by content authors, and one of the questions that came up is that of validation.

Luckily, there’s a very nice solution in form of Kwalify, a small [...]