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Science as a tool of rhetoric

Wednesday, April 21st, 2010

Yesterday the Washington Post published an article on an FDA initiative to limit the amount of salt that could be put in food. This is an interesting policy issue, but it’s not what I want to talk about here. I actually just want to talk about one line from the Post’s article that acted as [...]

jailbroken

Sunday, November 8th, 2009

The topic of piracy on Apple platforms is an interesting one. Whereas Microsoft’s copy protection on their OS has gotten more and more sophisticated, Apple’s OSX has historically included little or no protection against piracy. Apple’s ‘honor system’ attitude seems to work well enough for them; although some users choose not to pay for OS [...]

Future’s Most Hazardous Jobs

Saturday, October 24th, 2009

1. Crew member on shadowy corporation’s mining satellite.
2. Elder of village with last working well.
3. Gate security guard at bio-research laboratory.
4. Anthropomorphic central computer.
5. Guy riding in sidecar in post-apocalyptic motorcycle gang.