On the Closing of Another Major Newspaper and on Journalism in General: (Musings of your humble servant at Rerum Novarum) These musings were triggered by the following article courtesy of Matt Drudge: Seattle paper says workers told jobs will end As someone who feels bad for those who fall on hard t...

Well, FOSE got off to a bang with a keynote speech by Chris Anderson, the editor in chief of Wired. Chris is famous for the idea of the Long Tail, and has a written a book on the same topic. No surprise, but he was strongly in favor of government embracing social media, cloud computing and all the r...

Section 4: Heidegger’s Humanism: Heidegger, like Nietzsche before him, was an unbeliever or atheist who could not give up Christian hopes.  According to Gray , and one is wont to believe him, carried along with the author’s enthusiasm and logic, that Heidegger’s terminology is merely new ...

xkcd - A Webcomic - Correlation Did reading this cause me to laugh my butt off?Tags: correlation causation causality effect logic comic xkcd The Cult of Done Manifesto Something I needed right now. Thanks, Arjan.Tags: productivity creativity bobsutton cultofdone manifesto Pergelator: Random Joke I d...

A logic analyzer records bus communications between two chips. If you’ve ever had a problem getting two chips to talk, or wanted to reverse engineer a protocol, a logic analyzer is the tool you need to spy on the bus. The Logic is a USB logic analyzer with eight channels and sampling rates up ...

Another Idea For Federal (or State) Legislative Reform: (Musings of your humble servant at Rerum Novarum) At sundry times and in divers manner your host has written on the issue of legislative reform in the context of major movements underlying the foundational presuppositions of this endeavour as o...

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You are not too late to enjoy the benefits of social media — you will never be too late — because the spoils in social media marketing go to the company that can maintain its social media participation over the long haul over the long term. Start now, start later, and I guarantee that if you’r...

Brian Leiter has asked who that was in the train of the New York Times declaring that it was Wittgenstein.So far, Russell is leading. Russell? My goodness, he was important but hardly the best - most read more than best, I suspect. Moore was better than Russell. As to the other leading contenders, b...

Apologies to any who care, but I have next to no time to blog recently. Certain arguments have always mystified me.  I tend to chew on them a while, and then reconcile.  But some just need to be exposed for the bullshit they are.  Take this, for example.  The other day, in a ...