Paralipsis

I shouldn’t be, but I’m amazed that there are still gullible crackpots who are earnestly working every day toward achieving free energy. Not in a tongue-in-cheek, or steampunk-cybergoth manner, but in an actual effort to achieve the impossible of free, perpetual energy. A world filled with alleged friend-of-a-friend witnessing of a running perpetual […]

This just in, eating food makes you fat, exercise makes you hungry.
The one thing that might be said about exercise with certainty is that it tends to makes us hungry. Maybe not immediately, but eventually. Burn more calories and the odds are very good that we’ll consume more as well. And this simple […]

Marcus Ranum has an excellent article which I find myself going back to often, it’s titled The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security. My favorite is number five, Educating Users.
On the surface of things, the idea of “Educating Users” seems less than dumb: education is always good. On the other hand, like “Penetrate […]

An excellent article, Animals Are Not Things which describes animal welfare from a very pragmatic point of view. My favorite quote:
I am not required to keep a pair of screwdrivers in my toolbox, so that they can socialize with other screwdrivers.
Although, I should point out that I have several dozen screwdrivers in my screwdriver […]

Para Publishing has a fascinating collection of statistics about the book publishing industry.

A successful fiction book sells 5,000 copies.
A successful nonfiction book sells 7,500 copies.
59% of the customers plan to purchase a specific book when entering a bookstore.
40% make impulse purchases.
2002: Of the $23.7 billion spent on books, only $10.7 […]