Bodoni Tag

I'm not sure how I found this, but I did: Bodoni Tag

A cool little story, with a twist at the end.

The Evangelical Atheist - God is a Dick

The Evangelical Atheist - God is a Dick

The "God is a Dick" series by I Am over at the Evangelical Atheist is one of the best critiques of the depravity of the biblical "god" I've read.

Everyone, no matter what their delusion (or "faith", if that makes you feel better), should read these stories, if only to realise that children need to be protected from the filth in the bible.

Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows.

I've just been looking for material on The Shadow. I've managed to find a fan novelisation of the 1994 film staring Alec Baldwin which looks promising and I already have a copy Dark Horse's book featuring The Ghost and The Shadow. I'm going to try and find the film on DVD as it was absolutely fantastic and I much prefer it to the original mythos (what I know of it).

Aggravation

I've just finished the second assignment for the data mining course I'm doing this semester. The one thing I got out of it is a strong desire to avoid R.

There is something about that language and system that just rubs me the wrong way. I have no idea how the type system (such as it is) works and any such understanding would be of little value (as it is dynamic anyway). I cannot understand how someone managed to write a libxml wrapper that is harder to use than the C library.

To make matters a little better, the ESS (Emacs Speaks Statistics) package makes editing R code and interacting with the R interpreter easy, though emacs started acting peculiarly after I installed it.

All in all, R is (in my opinion, by my standards and for my purposes) something to be avoided.