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Posted by Andrew Wed, 08 Aug 2007 00:12:00 GMT
Global Warming - a convenient lie?
Posted by Andrew Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:04:00 GMT
NOTE: if the embedded movie below does not function due to political correctness or some other reason, you can download it here.
The following is part 1 of 8 on youtube. Go there to watch parts 2-7.
Consider also this lecture given by Michael Crichton on Janaury 17, 2003 at the California Institute of Technology.
Aliens Cause Global Warming
My topic today sounds humorous but unfortunately I am serious. I am going to argue that extraterrestrials lie behind global warming. Or to speak more precisely, I will argue that a belief in extraterrestrials has paved the way, in a progression of steps, to a belief in global warming. Charting this progression of belief will be my task today.
Let me say at once that I have no desire to discourage anyone from believing in either extraterrestrials or global warming. That would be quite impossible to do. Rather, I want to discuss the history of several widely-publicized beliefs and to point to what I consider an emerging crisis in the whole enterprise of science-namely the increasingly uneasy relationship between hard science and public policy.
Read more...MS interested in Ruby?
Posted by Andrew Mon, 12 Mar 2007 18:32:00 GMT
Infoworld reports that Microsoft is “very interested” in Ruby. Is this like the proverbial knock on the door, where the man says “We’re from the government, and we’re here to help?” Maybe. Is this a good boost for Ruby or the beginning of an “embrace and extend” attack? I can’t imagine that MS is very happy about the popularity of Rails: open-source, cross platform, unixy. I know the Rails team isn’t exactly friendly toward Windows. The core team is 100% Mac and DHH has said that he would be suspect of any applicants who used Windows as their development platform.
In any event there is now a decent Rails IDE plugin for Visual Studio, Ruby in Steel Developer . But, if you are really serious about developing in Rails, get a Mac and use TextMate.
Beginnings of the Web
Posted by Andrew Wed, 28 Feb 2007 17:52:00 GMT
Internet History:
Robert Scoble interviews Ben Segal and Jean-Francois Groff, both of whom were directly involved with Tim Berners-Lee at CERN, where it all began. Among other things, find out what the very first website was…
Blogging from TextMate!
Posted by Andrew Wed, 28 Jun 2006 18:33:00 GMT
No kidding.
There is now a TextMate bundle which enables you to blog directly from every Macuser’s favorite editor, TextMate. The bundle supports Textile and Markdown formatting, and works with Wordpress and Typo, among others. Allan has posted a nice little video to give you a quick start in using it.
If you’ve never fetched a TextMate bundle, here’s how.
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