Diluting the scientific method: Ars looks at homeopathy

An interesting analysis of homeopathic medicine, and why rejecting science is not the best medicine at all. I'm not much of a fan of the opposite extreme (candy-store-like prescriptions from certain doctors) but rejecting science is not the answer. Science is good …

Happy (belated) Birthday, Jeff! Hope you had a great birthday yesterday!

Dear Java,

It's hard for me to write you this note. Heck, we haven't really had a chance to get to know each other, what with all of my time spent with other languages like Perl and C. You know that I secretly thought we could make something wonderful together …

I finally got one of the magazine subscriptions that I had asked for (it's a professional subscription) in the mail this weekend. When I applied for the subscription, it asked for my title. I put "Head Cook and Bottle Washer", thinking that was a throw-away field. I forgot all about …

The Biggest Ever BitTorrent Leak: MediaDefender Internal Emails Go Public | TorrentFreak

This might not seem like much on the surface, and indeed I glossed over this story right off the bat as yet another leak in a company story, but this story goes much deeper than the usual company-leak story …