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yes! my copy of beautiful code: leading programmers explain how they think just arrived. it includes essays by brian kernighan, karl fogel ...

welcome news: ann coulter's recent pulp contribution to right-wing fantasy and malediction literature is now out in softcover with an af...

none of the rocks were set up by a photographer. all natural occurances found in bokbalbaii, south africa. all images copyright ozan s. yigi...

roger ebert 's uproarious spoof of ann coulter: chris curveball and blonde bomb Well, then, let’s face it. You’re a porker yourself. And...

bernhard edmaier, patterns of earth richard morgan, black man loise antony (ed), philosophers without gods: meditations on atheism and secul...

all images copyright ozan s. yigit. see ancnd prints available.

the inhabitants of this great wilderness may live and die without ever having contact with humanity. long may it be that way. -- david atten...

john scalzi's utterly useless writing advice is actually pretty good advice. ursula leguin on serious literature and on a sad critic n...

duncan sinclair kindly preserved f.x. reid's very funny spoof of hiawatha , song of hakawatha : Type the login and the password - Found ...

this year's usenix flame award was given to my friend peter honeyman . Peter's often highly unconventional stewardship of the count...

council of ex-muslims in britain launched. here is the manifesto of the council, and a specific paragraph i must quote... Those of us who...

happy to see mercurial 0.9.4 is now available support for symlinks improved tag handling improved merge handling of file and directory renam...

lisp: no description provided -- freebsd package install if there is one lesson that i have learned well along the way, it is simply this: t...

it is hard to write anything about ratatouille without turning into an gushing, adjective-filled cliche machine. it is one of the finest pi...

inimitable cosma shalizi, in different voices and those voices again Q: So the analogy suggests that IQ scores are...? A: A proxy for the s...

recycled the text of the very, very strange larry wall talk titled perl, the first postmodern computer language , but not before reading the...

thom hogan has an excellent note on the poverty of current compact camera designs and how it can be remedied. yes, nikon [or canon, or oly...

along the way she mistook a cramped sense of of personal grievance for a coherent philosophy: a common error. -- mark kingwell on ayn rand [...

cory doctorow is now reading bruce sterling's the hacker crackdown . This book changed my life — and the lives of countless others. It ...

the register 's andrew orlowski [who made a career by writing hack pieces on sun at every available opportunity] recently wrote a piece...