No matter how you explain the world around you, your explanation is the nucleus and kernel of how you explain yourself.
— Believers and Skeptics by James Shelley
As I amusedly watched the price rise every day, I learned that Amazon retailers are increasingly using algorithmic pricing (something Amazon itself does on a large scale)Someone just didn't write their algorithm well enough...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology's decision to name a 44-year old Japanese venture capitalist who attended, but did not graduate, from two American colleges as the director of one of the world's top computing science laboratories an unusual choice.But they're certainly an unusual lab. The Junkyard Jumbotron is a pretty cool DIY project.
With 100% of the single player achievements in Portal 2, I join the less than 3.2% elite players who have hit them all. Now just to find friends to play the co-op with...
Probably my all-time favorite Easter song: Arise My Love by Newsong.
On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb. They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. While they were wondering about this, suddenly two men in clothes that gleamed like lightning stood beside them. In their fright the women bowed down with their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, "Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here; he has risen!
He is risen, indeed!
Surely he took up our pain
and bore our suffering,
yet we considered him punished by God,
stricken by him, and afflicted.
But he was pierced for our transgressions,
he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was on him,
and by his wounds we are healed.
I am done with great things and big things, great institutions and big success, and I am for those tiny invisible molecular moral forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, yet which if you give them time, will rend the hardest monuments of man's pride.
— William James, The Letters of William James (1926), p. 80
via James Shelley
Nilay Patel breaks down Apple's lawsuit against Samsung, the latest in the mobile patent war.
"Recompile the kernel again. Switch distros. Recompile the kernel again but this time using a CPU powered by refracted light from Saturn."