Day: September 7, 2006

Blowing my own horn

I don’t do this often, but I feel a fever coming on and I’m hoping a little ego self-gratification will make me feel better. Please allow me to quote from Joel Spolsky’s article “Finding Great Developers“: …you can go through thousands of job applications and quite frankly never see a great software developer. Not a one. Here is why this… Read more →

Head Explodey, Part 3

The lede on this Reuters story seem relatively harmless, or maybe even positive: Americans who question evolution are testing a new tactic in Ohio, arguing that schools should be required to discuss all controversial issues from creation to stem cell research and global warming. In what critics on Wednesday called a new attempt to bring religion into the classroom, the… Read more →

Head-explodes, part 2

Those poll results were the first part of today’s cornucopia of things that make my head explode. You’d think an article entitled “Southern women breaking up with Bush” would be something I’d enjoy reading. But then you hit this section: Still, some Southern women remain stalwart supporters of the president and the Republican Party. At a watermelon festival in Chickamauga,… Read more →

A Thursday Miscellany

Wow. Moore wasn’t kidding. LOST GIRLS is really, really, dirty. You know what really gets me about this story: people were complaining! Who seriously feels threatened on an airplane because someone is praying–regardless of what language they are doing it in? I thought this kind of madness was American-only, but I guess we’re just as bad. My home office is… Read more →

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