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" 'He woke her then, and trembling and obedient she ate that burning heart out of his hands. Weeping I saw him then depart from me.' " - My all time favorite psychiatrist quoting D…

Watch out for premature liquidation.

I have to disagree with this blogger. I think CS Unplugged is a great idea. Djikstra himself said that computer science has as little to do with computers, as astronomy has to do w…

Perhaps this should be entitled, "The Long Reach of the Meme". :-)

Hey Commie: This is America. Monopolies are perfectly fine. Go back to the Soviet Union where you belong.

Really I'd say the earliest machine "algorithms" was the operation of the abacus ( http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_do_you_use_an_abacus ), such that moving certain beads around gave …

So if the internet is the greatest invention ever, I guess Al Gore is the greatest inventor ever - more important than even Newton.

Paul Allen's business cards are better. (That's the Paul Allen from Pierce and Pierce, not the one from Microsoft.)

OMG, they killed Kenny!!! You bastards!!!

This most likely has to do with social status in sexual selection. That is, the more "up the ladder" one is in a social group, the more attractive one is to potential mates. In ear…

Well anything can seem obvious in retrospect. As T.H. Huxley said of Natural Selection, "How utterly stupid of me not to have thought of that myself!" And indeed, natural selection…

Could somebody please tell me why the f2k we care how fast some random bird can fly? Why the swallow? Why not the bald eagle? Or the chickadee? Who gives a f2k.

Precisely. It is not the strongest nor the smartest often that survive, but the best adapted. Dawkins has made this point himself, in that the genes which survive are the "mediocre…

Professor Dawkins is one of my all time heroes. Selfish gene theory stands at the center ultimately of all anthropology, sociology, biology, and psychology. He has transformed the …

Yet another case of "I'm Microsoft, and I know better." Lovely.

This is racism, pure and simple, teaching young kids to torture and kill any non-Aryans in the vicinity. The anti-immigrant people are Aryan supremacists who want America to be an …

The author is a fool. He is a fool who does not understand the free market. Users are cows. They should be treated as such. Cows do not know what they want. It is our job as progra…

Thanks for posting this. Always nice to get a healthy dose of "A $ A" with my morning coffee! :-)

I think the question to be asked, is the question of if it is in the self-interest of the American taxpayer to subsidize schools in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now, this is hard to answe…

Just say, "Well, how would YOU approach this?" to gauge where she is at. So rather than solve it for her every time, have her give it a stab first. Let her be totally wrong, but at…