Why are there so many holy wars on the Internet? It seems that whenever there is a choice to be made, people will defend their choice with more fervor than necessary. We’ve got Tabs Vs. Spaces, Vim vs. Emacs, Mac vs. PC (a classic)—the list seems endless.
Whenever I formulate this question, people respond by pointing [...]
the Key and Its Signature
reflection without a mirror
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Throwing Stones and Lifting Swords.
Religulous, or “Bill Maher’s Excellent Adventure.”
Today I want to look at Bill Maher’s aggressive atheistic (or agnostic, I am not sure which) manifesto, Religulous. In it, Maher starts and ends standing upon the much-prophesied site of apocalypse: Megiddo. He—standing at the end of the world—informs the audience of religion’s destructive power and urges the under-represented minority of atheists and agnostics [...]
Forking it Over
“To churn out word after word at the drop of a hat (dime),” I wonder often, “am I made out for this sort of life?” There is a certain confidence this occupation requires, a kind of trust all ‘creative professionals’ must fork over. So which way should one (I) fork, what must one (I) fork, and who (or what) made the fork in the road?