Silly vampire maths

While the general idea is laudable, the simple statement that vampires can’t exist because they’d have killed all the humans is just stupid. In summary: if a vampire feeds once a month and creates a vampire of its prey, then there would be no humans left....

Superna

Looks like this home automation over WiFi / LAN might be the way to control the Mac from the bedroom / kitchen.

Too good to be true

I was tempted to quote Steve Yegge’s article on the Google development process, but decided not to in the end. So it was fascinating to see a friend’s take on it from the other side of the fence. Summary: not great for people wanting to partner with...

Benedict and Mohammed

Interesting musings on what the long-term significance of the “violence” quote might be. Summary: Islam uses Mohammed as a Pope-like figure to gather behind; the secular terms violence/non-violence, parody/defamation become linked with religion; a majority...