Testing Godwin's Law
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Last week I came across Godwin's Law. Many of you may already be familiar with it. For those of you who aren't, Godwin's Law, according to wikipedia, states:  As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.  read more
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Â· New figure of 2.47m is less than half previous count Â· Latest statistics based on more reliable survey
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What is the measure of a life well led?
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A key prediction of Albert Einstein&#39;s general theory of relativity has been confirmed by an experiment showing that the Earth&#39;s rotation drags the surrounding fabric of space-time along with it.
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A formula for Web schemes: a lot of mathematicians, a lax legal system and Western targets.
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Both olfactorily and opportunistically.
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By Anonymous  ANCIENT TEMPERATURE DROP M
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Recently two books,          by Peter Woit         and         by Lee Smolin,          have been published questioning whether the enormous theoretical        effort applied to the problems of string theory has been        fruitful.  Both books have been reviewed in           several        popular        publications,          and generated substantial discussion both inside and outside of        the physics community.                        One response was published several days ago           by Briane Greene          on the Op-Ed page of the New York Times (also        here).  A          famously grouchy observer          called the editorial a long, wistful plea for patience.  But        what struck me most as I read it was its similarity to the           crackpot index          maintained by John Baez.  So, for fun, I scored it.
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By Andrea Weigl, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Feb.
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By John Weiss, Post-Bulletin, Rochester, Minn.  Jun.
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Malcolm Gladwell examines the science of split-second decisions.
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Stuart Herbert has posted a new book review of a new offering from Packt Publishing - "Learning PHP Data Objects" (by Dennis Popel).    The folks at Packt Publishing sent me a copy of Dennis Popel's "Learning PHP Data Objects" to review. I'd never heard of Packt before, and was intrigued.   He includes a high-level overview of what the book contains, but notes that he couldn't get a hold of the code examples mentioned in the book (no CD and couldn't find it on their site). Overall, he found it a good book - it's a good primer to PDO in PHP, but you'll need to know SQL beforehand to work with it. He suggests that it's more of a one or two time read, though - not much in the way of a reference to come back to.
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In my last blog post, I mentioned the work on rubinius (then at a 0.7 release and now at 0.8) and JRuby.  I also promised I&#8217;d follow up on them.  Here&#8217;s what&#8217;s been going on so far.
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New publications, experiments and breakthroughs in information technology--and what they mean.
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Anisotropy--there's a word you don't hear everyday
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A breakthrough in computer-assisted mind reading brings us closer to predicting criminality. Should the justice system adapt? Commentary by Jennifer Granick.
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By Anonymous  Colgate-Palmolive puts appliance through rigorous testing to prove usefulness to its global network.