Grubers New RSS Feeds
John Gruber of Daring Fireball fame has just updated his RSS feeds to include both tiny link posts and larger essaylike posts. This is very much appreciated by yours truly.
One interesting thing to note in the XML feed: larger noteworthy posts are now starred (★), while the link posts are plain. Delicious. I predict [...]
The Euthyphro Dilemma
Reading up on discussions on atheism (the lack of belief in god), I stumbled upon this interesting question, called the Euthyphro dilemma:
Is the pious loved by the gods because it is pious, or is it pious because it is loved by the gods?
Wikipedia “translates” this into something more readable:
Is what is moral commanded by God [...]
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Indiana Jones IV … V and IV?
IESB reports on some interesting contractual obligations:
Shia LaBeouf, a break out star this year with a few small films under his belt like Disturbia, Surf’s Up and Transformers, has signed a four picture deal as the archeologist’s offspring. That’s right, he has signed on for 3 more Indiana Jones movies after this one!
Does this mean [...]
Everybody’s a Project Manager, Part 4
This is the final part in a list of key project management tips and techniques. See also part 1, part 2 and part 3.
Beach != Ashtray
Even though it looks like a giant sandbox, the beach is not an ashtray.
The Double-Click
It’s been around, probably, since the dawn of the mouse. The double-click has become synonymous with “open”. The purpose of the double-click is to allow one to do two things with the same button. So far this has meant that single-click selects, double-click opens. It’s worked so well and has become so ubiquitous that it’s been a while since anyone thought it could be different. Even so, I’ll bet my mouse that we won’t be double-clicking in 5 years.
Everybody’s a Project Manager, Part 3
This is part 3 in a list of key project management tips and techniques. See also part 1 and part 2.
From the Mormon Sci-Fi Author
“It was a hard thing for human beings to deal with, when we first realized how much of our behaviour arose from evolutionary necessity,” said Wiggin. “There are still numberless humans who refuse to believe it. [...] It’s another thing to find out that neither God nor evolution created you [...]”
The above passage is from [...]
Quick Thoughts On Joystiq 2.0’s New Comment System
Online gamer-blog Joystiq has just redesigned. While the design of the new version 2.0 is a shining example of mediocrity, the comment styling is interesting.
Comments with low karma have their text obscured by low contrast, while popular comments have their crisp contrast intact. It’s almost like a comment temperature. This is another approach to [...]