Procrastination

"oh, fuck it"

Programmers and Flow

Survival Tips for Black Hole Travelers

Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures

On the (Im)possibility of Obfuscating Programs

"Britain reserves the right to bomb niggers"
(Thanks to Mike)

PeaceBlogs - 855 blogs from 39 countries

What are wikis and how can you build them?

Rainwater Harvesting and Purification System

Why do volunteer work at an animal shelter?

At first glance one might think that the following statement - "Police occasionally resorted to torture and physical beatings of prisoners ... The government generally did not permit prison visits by local or international human rights groups ... Arbitrary arrests and detentions continued to be problems" - was describing US practices, but it is in fact the US State Department's description of notoriously repressive Eritrea, made in a report condemning human rights abuses around the world. The report also said that in Israel "there were no reports of political killings during the year"

You're living in an artificially induced state of consciousness that resembles sleep.

"It is the great characteristic of the ancient world, revealing itself in many divergent guises and seldom fully intelligible to modern men; faith in the absolute supremacy of the inward life over things external" --Gilbert Murray, historian of Greek religion

A Warmonger Educates A Peacenik

"Roger Penrose's "Shadows of the Mind" contain a future dialog between a human identified as "Albert Imperator" and an advanced robot, the "Mathematically Justified Cybersystem," allegedly Albert's creation... The dialog ends melodramatically as the robot, apparently unhinged by this revelation, claims to be a messenger of god, and the human shuts it down with a secret control... Severe incongruities in the dialog's logic and characterization suggest the following continuation..."

"The Penrose house robot has a module that observes and reasons about the mental state of its master (advertising slogan: "Our Robots Care!"). For reasons best known to its manufacturer, this particular model registers trouble whenever the psychology module infers that the master does not believe the robot is conscious. One slow day the reflective process stirs, and notes a major trouble report of this kind. It runs the human interaction problem solver to find an ameliorating strategy. This produces a plan to initiate a pleading conversation with Roger, with nonverbal cues. So the robot trundles up, stares with its big brown eyes, cocks its head, and begins to speak..."