Dirty Semantic Tricks
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From the New York Times:          Science, we are repeatedly told, is the most reliable form of  knowledge about the world because it is based on testable  hypotheses. Religion, by contrast, is based on faith. The term  "doubting Thomas" well illustrates the difference. In science, a  healthy skepticism is a professional necessity, whereas in religion,  having belief without evidence is regarded as a virtue.              The problem with this neat separation into "non-overlapping  magisteria," as Stephen Jay Gould described science and religion, is  that science has its own faith-based belief system. All science  proceeds on the assumption that nature is ordered in a rational and  intelligible way. You couldn't be a scientist if you thought the  universe was a meaningless jumble of odds and ends haphazardly  juxtaposed. When physicists probe to a deeper level of subatomic  structure, or astronomers extend the reach of their instruments, they  expect to encounter additional elegant mathematical order. And so far  this faith has been justified.            Thus begins an exploration into the controversy around the origins of  our universe's most fundamental laws.
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Today&#39;s new word, for all you dictionary freaks, is &quot;spim&quot;. Spam + IM (Instant Messaging) = Spim. IM Spam. And for many IM companies it is the bane of their existence requiring increasingly aggressive filtering and block list capabilities.
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Christian Wenz has pointed out an older post from Larry Wall talking about the line between scripting and programming languages (mentioning specifically PHP).  From the article "":  I think, to most people, scripting is a lot like obscenity. I can't define it, but I'll know it when I see it. [...] If I had to pick one metaphor, it'd be easy onramps. And a slow lane. Maybe even with some optional fast lanes.   Larry goes through tons of different older languages commenting on their viability in the online community including: Javascript, LISP, Pascal, Python, Ruby and PHP. He then looks at the present and what sorts of things are happening in languages these days. This list includes things like early binding/late binding, eager typology/lazy typology, limited structures/rich structures, class-based/prototype-based and transaction/reaction/dynamic scope.
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Plus: Was Einstein a plagiarist? [News.com Extra]
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Computers have always sucked at translation. How one firm is cracking the language code. By Evan Ratliff from Wired magazine.
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Here's a closer look at the list of commonsense consumer protections we often avoid
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Matthew Turland, like many in the PHP community these days, has been pondering PHP6 and what it might mean to both the developers and to the language itself:   Be that as it may, as a user with about five years under his belt as of now who has seen all qualities of PHP code ranging from pristine to pedantic, a thought or two has crossed my mind on the subject of the latest upcoming incarnation of the language.   Specifically, he talks about some of the hot topics like namespaces, the mysqlnd driver, Unicode support, and named parameters. Overall, though, his comments are positive, looking toward a brighter future for PHP with this upcoming edition.
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How to tell the real meaning of words you don't know.
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Sharpen your knowledge of Foolish fundamentals.
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roundup Free-roaming source code breeds new Netsky pest. Also: From IE to Opera, browsers are a likely prey.
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Readers remark on nanotubes, counterfeiting the euro, personal homepages, and the word of the day: IRONY. Plus: Links to our most popular blog posts.
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Found in the search marketing forums: Plural Forms of Nouns in AdWords; The Divide Between Search Engines and SEOs; AJAX Technology and SEO; and more.
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Language Implimentation Pack, that is
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Because anyone can edit Wikipedia, the Web encyclopedia's reliability varies wildly. Now a computer science professor hopes to give users a better baloney detector: software that flags questionable lines in Wikipedia entries.
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Mistakes prompt a demand for grammar to be policed.
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This may be one of the most overused terms out there.
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Could this be an end to broken links? New software replaces and updates links on Web pages.