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"Living With Darwin by Philip Kitcher" Reviewed Crooked Timber reviews Philip Kitcher's book on evolution and ID. "all of us rely on something like a religion."
The Correspondence Theory of Truth Encyclopedic overview of the correspondence theory of truth and its rivals.
The Chain World Game Was Supposed to be a Religion—Not a Holy War A good read from Wired about a copy of Minecraft on a USB stick to be passed from person to person, and how far it didn't get.
My Unfinished Novels Fragments of unfinished novels submitted by the authors.
What is it like to be a woman working in the tech industry? Rebecca Cox, Product Designer at Quora, shares her experiences and observations about working in the tech industry. (h/t @macdiva)
WUGAZI WUGAZI: a Wu-Tang/Fugazi mashup 
Clay Shirky: Making Digital Durable: What Time Does to Categories – The Long Now A good Shirky lecture from 2005 on the social challenges of digital preservation, formats, and classification systems.
Once Greece goes… The economic crisis in Greece and the EU Out of all the alarmist articles about an alarming situation, this one adds an important perspective: how the citizens feel they have no agency.
The Bechdel Test for Women in Movies‬‏ Simple and (in white-male-feminist hindsight) obvious rubric for evaluating the presence and purpose of female characters in movies. Most of my favorite movies fail the test.
Federov’s Rapture Charles Stross on the transhumanist ideas of 19th century Russian Orthodox Christian philosopher Nikolai Fyodorov.
Has Steve Perlman Discovered Holy Grail of Wireless? Wired article about a patent for a wifi scheme that supposedly skirts Shannon's Law with some cleverness.
Nils Gilman on "Deviant Globalization" Pretty interesting Long Now lecture on the globalization of "illicit markets" (drugs, human trafficking, etc), how they operate, and who benefits from them.
MathDox formula editor Cool wysiwyg web-based formula editor.
Pratt Parsers: Expression Parsing Made Easy
Ruby for kids I wonder how kids in DC get into programming?
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