I have to admit, I'm rather looking forward to the new Thor. There're a lot of oddities surrounding the concept, but it's the comics - it's not like they paid much attention to the traditional Thor in the first place,…
Month: August 2014
If you follow me on Google+ or Twitter (or LinkedIn), you'll have seen a lot of posts from me lately, mostly reposts of older articles, in a giant flood of content. I apologize for that - I guess I'd not…
CNN posted Stopping ISIS today, containing some horrifying imagery: basically, ISIS filmed a man being forcibly converted from Christianity to Islam, and then beheaded him. I suppose that somewhere the god of irony is weeping tears of stone. God knows…
The Avail team has announced the first release of Avail, an "articulate programming language," which attempts to offer a somewhat natural expression form for solving programming problems. While other languages, such as Perl, have tried to do some of the…
I am having some difficulty with CSS and I'm not entirely sure how to fix it. So I'm putting this out there in the hopes that someone with CSS expertise can look and say something simple, like, "Hey, dummy, why…
I hate to admit it, but one of my favorite songs right now is Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah," which I first heard on American Idol. What... a... song! The lyrics are freakin' STUNNING. Amazing piece of work. The relationship between sex…
There was a tweet (captured on imgurl, of all places) that said: "Muslims view 'Islamic' terrorists the same way most Christians view the Westboro Baptist Church..." A lot of comments suggested otherwise, with justification. The thing is: would an Iraqi…
Welcome to my new site; it's not a new url, but everything's been rebuilt from the ground up. Well... I say it's been rebuilt, but that's not quite true yet. It's in the process of being rebuilt as of this…