A very common practice among people speaking the English language is the use of the phrase “different than”. I had never paid much attention to its use and was guilty myself of using it from time to time. Now that I am aware of its erroneous nature, I cringe when I hear people say it. [...]
Creationism and MTV
Sunday, September 11, 2005
There has been more talk lately about bringing creationism into the science classroom, to be taught alongside evolution as a supposed “alternate theory”, but there is a major problem with this proposal; namely that creationism is not a scientific theory at all. I leave the details to Richard Dawkins and Jerry Coyne. Findings from a [...]
Unauthorized Authorization
Wednesday, August 31, 2005
There is an increasing trend in which certain reasonably educated individuals in the computer software industry have decided to take it upon themselves to endeavor into a mildy annoying, carelessly destructive, and decidedly irresponsible realm: that of unathorized authorization. By this I mean to say that these people have taken the normally enormous leap from [...]
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