D-Day: NBC 2:50–3AM — Ford’s Sensorium — Medium

D-Day: NBC 2:50–3AM — Ford’s Sensorium — Medium

What Neuroscience Really Teaches Us, and What It Doesn’t

What Neuroscience Really Teaches Us, and What It Doesn’t
“There will eventually be neuroscientific explanations for much of what we do; but those explanations will turn out to be incredibly complicated. For now, our ability to understand how all those parts relate is quite limited, sort of like trying to understand the political dynamics of Ohio from an airplane window above Cleveland.”

Maj-Gen Tony Deane-Drummond

Maj-Gen Tony Deane-Drummond
Quite an obituary.

Entire rules of the MLB Rule 5 Draft

Entire rules of the MLB Rule 5 Draft

Seth’s Blog: Confusing lucky with good

Seth’s Blog: Confusing lucky with good
“So persistence becomes an essential element of good, because without persistence, you never get a chance to get lucky.”

Everything you wanted to know about stock option grants but were afraid to ask « Random Peterisms

Everything you wanted to know about stock option grants but were afraid to ask « Random Peterisms

Blog: askblog: It is Sometimes Appropriate…

Iceland’s Only Baseball Club Looks For A Rally

Iceland’s Only Baseball Club Looks For A Rally
“Icelandic weather is no good for baseball”

Ibrahimovic Is The Biggest Boy In The Paris Hood

Ibrahimovic Is The Biggest Boy In The Paris Hood
“For Ibrahimović, the mesmerizing footwork and cheeky goals have become the flags of Rosengård he plants in each enemy pitch. Someone somewhere must have written a Ph.D. thesis on the Zlatan phenomenon as symptomatic of rapidly transforming Swedish society.”

YouTube: Science Of Persuasion

Science Of Persuasion

Blog: The American Conservative » Rod Dreher: Individualism Uber Alles

Explorations in Unix

Explorations in Unix
Data cleansing functions in Unix.

An Imperfect God

An Imperfect God
The Hebrew “I will be what I will be” is in the imperfect tense, suggesting to us a God who is incomplete and changing…The belief that any human mind can grasp enough of God to begin recognizing perfections in him would have struck the biblical authors as a pagan conceit.

Blog: askblog: The Keynesian Fixation

Soul Food: Why cooking isn’t art

Soul Food: Why cooking isn’t art
Wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong. Et cetera.

Heaven Can Wait: Paul Ford

Heaven Can Wait: Paul Ford
This week, advice for a lovelorn atheist who wants to know if a Christian could love him back.

Mysterious Atmospheric River Soaks California, Where Megaflood May Be Overdue

Mysterious Atmospheric River Soaks California, Where Megaflood May Be Overdue
“They can strike the west coasts of most continents, but California seems to be a prime target. As many as nine small atmospheric rivers reach the state each year, each lasting two to three days”

The Worst

The Worst
“But the worst counters that if we’d like to de-emphasize things that we don’t want to be the focus of our life, we probably shouldn’t start by obsessing over them. That we don’t simplify by getting the very best of everything, we simplify by arranging our lives so that those things don’t matter one way or the other.”

My eBook build process

My eBook build process
…and some PDF, EPUB and MOBI tips by Pat Shaughnessy

The Awkward Transitions of Disneyland

The Awkward Transitions of Disneyland
“This is what people mean when they say Disneyland is charming: it’s a massive pile of ideas slammed down, one atop the other, with very little room to spare. This means that it’s very common to find areas where one kind of texture or surface treatment just ends because it collides with another. This is what I mean when I say Disneyland is naive.”