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Afghans Rage at Young Lovers – a Father Says Kill Them Both

Rick Perry and the scandal of prayer

Awesome but often unknown Linux commands and tools

Horror Stories From Tough-Love Teen Homes

Update (7/30/12): Apparently Gary Suson registered one of his websites, septembereleven.net, on September 12, 2001. Loyal readers of this highly-esteemed website might remember a post I wrote a while back detailing the harsh emails I received from one Gary Marlon Suson. Said readers might also be interested to hear about a particular email that showed [...]

I recently decided to switch my photo gallery from Gallery3 to NextGEN Gallery. I’m quite impressed with NextGEN. I’d say it has a slightly higher learning curve than Gallery3, but it’s quite easy to use once you get the hang of it. Plus, it integrates wonderfully with WordPress, so no more navigating out to a [...]

While listening through my massive backlog of Radiolab podcasts, I came across one story where they interviewed this awesome cellist named Zoe Keating. Basically, she uses her cello and a laptop to compose looping, intricate pieces of music. Be sure to check out Sun Will Set.

I recently decided to swap out my trusty modded first-generation Xbox for a second-generation AppleTV. I was, however, more than a little reluctant to give up using Xbox Media Center. Fortunately, I happened across a dead-simple jailbreaking tutorial over at OS X Daily. Once your ATV2 is jailbroken, you can SSH right into it. With [...]

Economically, a startup is best seen not as a way to get rich, but as a way to work faster. You have to make a living, and a startup is a way to get that done quickly, instead of letting it drag on through your whole life. What a shock, it’s another great essay by [...]

Great questions don’t appear suddenly. They gradually congeal in your head. And what makes them congeal is experience. So the way to find great questions is not to search for them– not to wander about thinking, what great discovery shall I make? You can’t answer that; if you could, you’d have made it. That’s a [...]