Must Read-The iEconomy, Apple, America and a squezzed middles class http://t.co/xoaFJwRV

The very first rule of Scooby-Doo, the single premise that sits at the heart of their adventures, is that the world is full of grown-ups who lie to kids, and that it's up to those kids to figure out what those lies are and call them on it, even if there are other adults who believe those lies with every fiber of their being.

Sex toys for religious people

Science at its best

“You do not have the talent to back up a Jobs sized ego”

worth it for the chart

programmatically drawing Chrome tabs

Even Information Is Beautiful struggles to describe sunscreen.

The social network

"And the person who says that the only way to please them is to restrict options for others is, if you ask me, the one who deserves it least.”

Dune coloring books

Mostly about how Star Wars borrowed everything from somewhere else (not a bad thing!)

Basically says “for fuck’s sake, don’t get (someone) pregnant in space”

“Software Engineering:

Writing the code is the easy part. Writing it so someone else can understand it later is the important part.
Make it work, then make it elegant, then make it fast.”

“It would be inaccurate to say the Tea Partiers are racists. What they are, in truth, are narcissists.”

”I still think the U.S. is the greatest country on earth … but I’m more optimistic about my life expectancy. Will we still be “the greatest” in sixty or seventy years? Not if we just stand around and admire our own awesomeness. We’ve been preening in that mirror so long our clothing has gone out of style.

”If somebody you care about is bleeding profusely, it’s not loving to insist that she’s flawless and has nothing to worry about. The loving thing is to stop the bleeding then get her to a doctor. If a guy is clearly suffering from blood poisoning, ignoring the problem isn’t loving. Instead, say, “Dude. You need to get that looked at immediately.” Or, better yet, go with him. Do what you can to make things better.”

A way to artificially slow network speeds for testing purposes.

“my review is that flannery o’connor proves you do not have to have an interesting life to be an interesting artist and we don't need biographies of everybody”

A day in the life of Barack Obama.

Date of Interview: 20 April 1995

Duh.

Argument is not about right or wrong, winning or losing – it’s about ideas, presentation, and prose. It is never absolute, and it never will be; instead, it is bound to be continuously repeated and revised, bounced back and forth until the end of human consciousness.

ARMv6 and ARMv7

eh, it's an okay article

“The simplest answer to the question of god’s existence is that humans produced god as a way to find comfort in a universe and a life that is otherwise meaningless. As a way to satisfy needs that we all have that might otherwise go unmet.”

"But he also contends that “if the Bible’s teaching does not help us make powerful sense of life and experience, if Biblical faithfulness is not life-giving, that is a sure sign we have not understood our Scripture properly.""

Ask Culture meets Guess Culture.

Depictions of Mohammed throughout history

"This is what I heard someone call my little boy today. "

"The great irony of the Devlin/Wolfenden debate is that Devlin's ideas won but it is his religous heirs who suffer because of it, not homosexuals. Every legal structure should be built as if one's worst enemies would control it. If that is done, the rights of all will be protected."

Background on the Conficker worm.

Marilyn

Short answer: Yes.