http://www.dlitz.net/blog Indistinguishable from white noise Thu, 08 Jul 2010 05:16:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Yesterday, somebody posted this puff piece on secular ethics to one of the discussion groups that I frequent. It's called "Ten Commandments for a Global Humanism", and it's pretty disappointing for something written by a guy with a Ph.D in Economics who wrote a book on secular ethics. ... http://www.dlitz.net/blog/2010/07/humanist-commandments/ Some people on Facebook are running a campaign this week they're calling 'A'theist Week on Facebook. The idea is to raise awareness of atheism by asking atheists to assert themselves by simply changing their profile photos to the Out Campaign's scarlet letter A for the week of March 29 ... http://www.dlitz.net/blog/2010/03/a-week/ My friends look at me like I'm crazy when I tell them that I'm trying to find an RSS/Atom feed aggregator that won't choke when I try to subscribe to over 350 feeds. I wonder what they will think when they find out that I'm also trying to keep ... http://www.dlitz.net/blog/2009/12/information-overload/ A friend and fellow atheist on Facebook posted a link to this article in the "Health & Fitness" section of The Globe and Mail: Feeling blue? Look to hugs before religion A new study finds Canadians who get hugs 'all the time' are more likely to report better mental health, while regularly ... http://www.dlitz.net/blog/2009/12/hugs-before-religion/ PyCrypto 2.1.0 has been released. This is the first stable release since I took over as maintainer of PyCrypto. It is compatible with Python 2.1 through 2.6. (Python 3.x is not yet supported.) See this post for more information. http://www.dlitz.net/blog/2009/12/pycrypto-2-1-0-released/ I sometimes get excited reading court documents. The latest one to pique my interest is the most recent transcript of oral arguments in Bilski v. Kappos that were heard by the US Supreme Court on Monday. The Bilski case is important because it could abolish the practice of patenting business ... http://www.dlitz.net/blog/2009/11/bilski/