The Empty

By DAVID BROOKS
April 6, 2009

...It challenges the new atheists, who see themselves involved in a war of reason against faith and who have an unwarranted faith in the power of pure reason and in the purity of their own reasoning.

By Jon Meacham

From the magazine issue dated Apr 13, 2009

By Gordy Slack
Mar. 25, 2009 |

We have become too reductive in understanding ourselves, argues philosopher Alva Noe. Our thoughts and desires are shaped by more than neurons firing inside our heads.

Are you dissatisfied with the usability, performance, lack of type-safety, and lack of / difficulty with extensibility of the printf()-family, Boost.Format and the IOStreams? Do you value speed, robustness and internationalisation support? If the answer to these questions is yes, meet FastFormat, the best C++ output/formatting library you'll ever use.

By Richard Gray
16 Mar 2009

I had this similar wonkiness with git-svn, and this helped me pull my ass out the fire. Thanks to dbt for pointing me at it.

git cheat sheet. Looks to be handy in my learning phase

mod_evasive is an evasive maneuvers module for Apache to provide evasive action in the event of an HTTP DoS or DDoS attack or brute force attack. It is also designed to be a detection and network management tool, and can be easily configured to talk to ipchains, firewalls, routers, and etcetera. mod_evasive presently reports abuses via email and syslog facilities.

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I apparently have unusual hearing. Ever since i was a kid, I could hear a very high pitched tone in most malls, which I always assumed was just the noise of the security systems bouncing arround the rafters. I notice it less now, but it’s still there, and it still annoys me. Heck, I can tell you if a tube tv is on anywhere in the building i’m in usually, I can hear the flyback transformer or something.

Enter those media frenzy stories about kids and their secret ring tones, that adults can’t hear…. although i’m 37 and have no problem hearing them.

The times ran a graphic that shows the usual ages you can hear these frequencies, and you can test some various frequencies here. I’m getting a little older. I can’t really hear the 18hz tone any more, but I can tell you if there’s one playing or not (it’s like a pressure in my ears when it’s on). I guess that means my body is 13 years older than my calendar age?

For bloggy goodness, here’s a memegraphic.

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Based on seeing some Twitter traffic about TokBox, I decided to let you leave me some video mail. I’m just playing, you should be too. Show me your asses!

By PETER STEINFELS
Published: February 13, 2009

If the label “new atheists” has been accorded to a fistful of polemicists who set out to counter in-your-face religion with in-your-face atheism, then Ronald Aronson must qualify as something different: a new new atheist perhaps.

Teensy USB Development Board The Teensy is a complete USB-based microcontoller development system, featuring a 16 MHz AVR (AT90USB162) processor, in a very small footprint! All programming is done via the USB port. No special programmer is needed, only a standard "Mini-B" USB cable and a PC or Macintosh with a USB port.

Learn how to share a single iPhoto library for editing among multiple users.