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Linus’s secret revealed! 26 Aug 2013 | 10:20 pm
Yeah, that whole Finland thing? It’s just a cover story. Back in the early Seventies an otherwise unassuming professor of philosophy named John Norman had a minor succes de scandale with a series of ...
Questioning transsexuality 24 Aug 2013 | 12:56 pm
In Bradley Manning Is Not a Woman, Kevin Willamson makes a case that feeling like a transsexual – that is, that one is either a man in the body of a woman or vice-versa – should be regarded as a menta...
vms-empire 1.10 released 23 Aug 2013 | 09:19 am
There’s a genre of computer games called 4X (explore/expand/exploit/exterminate). well-known examples of which include the Civilization series and Master of Orion. Ever wonder what the ur-progenitor ...
Summer vacation 2013 14 Aug 2013 | 09:17 pm
The last couple of weeks have been my vacation, and full of incident.This explains the absence of blogging. First, World Boardgaming Championships. I did respectably, making quarter- and semi-finals ...
Victory is sweet 29 Jul 2013 | 02:14 am
Ever since the open-source rebranding in 1998, I’ve been telling people that “open source” should not be capitalized because it’s an engineering term of art, and that we would have achieved victory wh...
Preventing visceral racism 26 Jul 2013 | 10:15 am
I’ve been writing about race and politics a lot recently. Now I’m going to reveal the reason: in the relatively recent past I had a very disturbing, novel, and unwelcome educational experience. For th...
Objective evidence against racism 17 Jul 2013 | 09:09 am
A theme I have touched on several times in my blogging is that the best way to defeat racism and other forms of invidious discrimination is to develop and apply objective psychometric tests. Usually ...
After such knowledge… 7 Jul 2013 | 07:33 am
I have read very little in the last few decades that is as shocking to me as this: Essay by a teacher in a black high school. My first reaction was that I wanted to believe it was a bigot’s fabricati...
Keyboards are not a detail! 28 Jun 2013 | 07:17 am
I’ve been thinking a lot about keyboards lately. Last Sunday I founded the Tactile Keyboards community on Google+ and watched it explode in popularity almost immediately. Spent most of the next couple...
More tales from the tip jar 26 Jun 2013 | 12:21 am
People do occasionally put money in my blog’s tip jar. To encourage this behavior, I like to explain what I’m spending it on – always, so far, test equipment or hacking tools. A few minutes ago I spe...
