Sometimes cultural relativism can, you know, go fuck itself. On a related note, I find myself having difficulty describing what I consider to be cultural absolutes without also describing the political systems that must be in place to support them. Hrmph.
Pultizer prize winner George Weller's censored report -quashed by Macarthur and lost for 60 years - of the aftermath in Nagasaki
3 toolkits that I should keep in mind
SAJAX - Simple Ajax Toolkit by ModernMethod - XMLHTTPRequest Toolkit for PHP - It says PHP, but it isn't necessary.
DWR - Direct Web Remoting - seems to be focused on a java backend.
Prototype - An object-oriented Javascript library. Its development is driven heavily by the Ruby on Rails framework, but it can be used in any environment. This is good to know as RoR is under heavy development so I expect Prototype will be kept up-to-date.
[Update] - Interestingly enough, Prototype is also available as a CPAN module - mostly to plug-in to the Catalyst MVC framework.
We report, you decide:
New Scientist Breaking News - Language may shape human thought
"Hunter-gatherers from the Pirahã tribe, whose language only contains words for the numbers one and two, were unable to reliably tell the difference between four objects placed in a row and five in the same configuration, revealed the study
Rhesus monkeys possess a natural ability to match the number of voices they hear to the number of individuals they expect to see vocalizing, new research concludes. The results indicate that abstract representation of numbers is possible in the absence of language.
Writing in the June 7 Current Biology, Elizabeth Brannon of Duke University and her colleagues describe their experiment. The researchers played the monkeys "coo" calls made by either two or three unfamiliar conspecifics. They then let the monkeys watch their choice of video images showing either two or three animals. The vast majority of the monkeys selected video images that corresponded to the number of individuals heard on the audio sample. Each monkey was tested only once and did not receive a reward.
RPF ran a contest for the best blogs defending freedom of expression. The results are in.
The copy protection technologies from SunnComm, Macrovision and Sony DADC differ in subtle ways. There are, however, some similarities. Many come with two sets of recorded music -- songs in the unprotected format that plays whenever the disc is inserted into a CD or DVD player, and a separate "session'' of compressed, copy-protected files that open when the disc is inserted into a computer.
When will they ever learn? They won't, they will just keep trying and trying and trying to enforce control over your computer.
I would think that the title alone makes the content both obvious and worth clicking.
I do hereby remind myself that mod_security is a good thing ™
The title says all you need to know to click on the link. Sounds very much liek Doctrine-of-1st-Sale Man will save the day here, but then there is the whole computer software thing.
