May 2007
92 posts
Ruby: RubyStyleGuide →
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CakePHP : The PHP Rapid Development Framework ::... →
Meager Food for Souls Forgot →
Imperialism vs. Realism
Also, Bush’s decision to leave Saddam Hussein in power to commit terrible atrocities would have been less sickening if it hadn’t followed a decade of supporting him as he committed similar atrocities and preceded another decade of Bill Clinton bombing and starving Iraqis by the thousands.
Imperialism vs. Realism
I’ve found Jim Henley’s writing on Rwanda, Somalia and Kosovo (Return to Somalia, Are You Sure About That?) most insightful on the subject of American imperialism in the form of so-called humanitarian intervention. Also Arthur Silber. Realistically, we in the United States can’t solve the world’s problems, certainly not with our bombs and troops, and we ought to stop...
“But it is with Iraq that real and long-term damage has been done. For years to...”
– Richard Cohen, Bush the Neoliberal [O RLY?]
make_resourceful 0.1.0 Release! - make_resourceful... →
RailsConf 2007 • May 17, 2007 - May 20, 2007 •... →
Dr. Martens fires ad agency over punks in heaven... →
How to Make OpenCola - WikiHow →
“…a theistic worldview allows the imputation of cosmic moral content to any...”
– IOZ, Golden Showers
“The goal is to enable Google users to be able to ask the question such as...”
– Google CEO Eric Schmidt [the privacy implications are worrying, but i’m mostly impressed by the nuttiness of thinking these are questions people want software to answer for them.]
Overestimating Evolution →
the theory of evolution isn’t a moral theory and doesn’t explain the meaning of life
Against Annihilation of the Spirit: Let Us All... →
handshake's handshake-0.2.0 Documentation →
Ruby on Rails Plugins - Agile Web Development →
Plugins - Acts as Resource - Agile Web Development →
will_paginate rails plugin →
Fmr. Chief of CIA Osama Unit: Why They Attack Us →
Cory Doctorow: In Praise of Fanfic →
“One of the things we ought to be thinking about is some level of mandatory...”
– John Edwards (via Jeremy Sapienza) [how about instead we just not fucking send the poor kids to war?]
Take the Flex Your Rights Quiz →
“No good case exists for the inequality of real and intellectual property,...”
– Mark Helprin, A Great Idea Lives Forever. Shouldn’t Its Copyright?, complaining about the unfairness that his descendants won’t get to collect royalty checks for his books for the rest of eternity [here’s one good case]
The secret neocon news channel →
“To return, then, and say it was a mistake—a war based on lies, support for...”
– IOZ, America as a Suicide Bomber
Raising Yousuf, Unplugged: diary of a Palestinian... →
Architectural Styles and the Design of... →
Ferret - Trac →
#haml →
Chronic RDoc Documentation →
Upload files using flash and javascript -... →
“I wanted the Colombians to come here to give the Afghans something to aspire to....”
– Vincent Balbo, the United States Drug Enforcement Administration chief in Kabul
So Iran Gets Nukes. So What? →
VirtualBox →
DynamicExplorer - Dynamic filesystem and buffer... →
Darcs Manual →
Creative-Commons-Configurator WordPress Plugin →
JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition →
“Theists say ‘It feels to us that there are things that we really should do...”
– Andrew Rilstone, Well, that just about wraps it up for Dawkins
Religion’s rules of inference →
The Drinky Crow Show →