The very first website ever was created at CERN in 1989. Here is their official recreation of that original site:
http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html
and, for the record, a CNN article about the website
Everyone talks about Bigfoot, but nobody ever does anything about them. Until now.
The Olympia Beer, the brewing company is offering a very generous $1,000,000 for "irrefutable evidence" for the existence of Bigfoot. They've set the bar pretty high. You need DNA and visual proof of a live physical body. Basically hair and a photo.
I'll post again if I hear about an award being made. Here's the full story:
On his blog, Sam Harris has posted a powerful commentary on guns. His position is not readily pigeon-holed as pro or anti gun, but rather he concedes certain realities and necessities with his customary rationality, logic and clarity. I find myself not always comfortable with his conclusions and positions, but I am nevertheless in essentially complete agreement.
I've chosen one paragraph from his commentary which seems to me right to the point:
This is the actual lead sentence from a USAToday story today:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2012/11/15/texas-train-crash/…
origins diverse
from throughout the universe
there is no better verse
than 'nature is perverse'
Joel Pett, a cartoonist with the Lexington-Herald Leader, has brilliantly captured the silliness of opposition to climate friendly policies with the caption:
"What if it's all a hoax and we create a better world for nothing?"
The cartoon itself is widely reproduced on the internet, but I haven't paid the fees to reproduce it here. Still, you should be able to find it at one of these links:
OK, I do mostly like Netflix. Even though they often won't stream the film I'd really like to watch, usually I can find something I haven't seen. But their "Suggestions For You" are, often as not, just silly.
Here are two examples Netflix thought I'd like, and why:
I host a number of low traffic Drupal (drupal.org) websites. Several for a non-profit, a few consulting shops, a book & poetry site. Low traffic, but a couple sites use lots of drupal modules, so performance and resource limits can sometimes be issues.
