Category Archives: Web Wandering & Opinion

TL;DR: Here are some entertaining, easy-to-understand videos explaining the fundamental flaws and relative merits of different voting systems. Of all the things we have to deal with in our daily lives, politics is (often, by design) probably one of the … Continue reading →

I know I’m rather late to the party, on this point, but it occurs to me that there’s one very under-explored way to look at the problems of bureaucratic structures: Night of the Lepus. Here’s a 1972 horror film… about … Continue reading →

Around the time I wrote "A Few Suggestions/Pleas to Authors of Mystery-oriented Fiction", I started work on a little post about some of the real mysteries that don’t get much attention. It’s not as long as I’d like, but I … Continue reading →

About a week ago, I read about how Adobe is doing an opt-out bundling deal, including Chrome with Flash and Adobe Reader X. What struck me as odd was how there seemed to be no business case for whomever was … Continue reading →

One topic that’s been getting explored off and on for the last half-decade is distributed issue tracking. The idea is that, with distributed version control systems like Git and Mercurial, maybe it’d be a good idea to also store your … Continue reading →