… And that is a weakness that, try as they might, the DoJ, the FBI, the MPAA, et al., can never come to grips with: their very existence is predicated on massive, centralized, bureaucratic incompetence. To give that up would be to begin their own dismemberment.
Following are the details of a project to create a completely autonomous “second layer” of the Internet, completely free of the influence of or need for Internet Service Providers, and untouchable by the government.
Using just a toothpick to create her minuscule folds, German paper-crafter Anja Markiewicz makes what must be some of the smallest examples of origami around.
Today I added BuddyPress to A Life Ended Here. I hope this step will make it easier for more people to participate. This is the first time I’ve tried BuddyPress. My early impressions of it are good. It was much easier to get set up than I thought it would be. The installation guides you through, step-by-step. I was even able to install bbPress through BuddyPress so it’s all integrated and seamless.
I chose the default BuddyPress theme for now. The previous theme I had installed when it was just a WordPress site didn’t quite jive with BuddyPress. I am going to search for a new theme, however, one that reflects the feel of the website better.
I posted on Google+, Facebook and Reddit, asking for testers. I got a few responses, but it has only been a couple hours. I’ll have more later. In fact, why don’t you head over there right now and click the sign up button at the top? It’s free, and I don’t sell your email address or spam you or anything like that. With the new features, you can sign up and talk about anything memorial-related.
I don’t usually watch The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, but I saw this clip over at The Agitator and I liked it:
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Lots of good stuff over at the Non-Programmer’s Tutorial for Python. I have learned much. I’ve learned about lists, dictionaries, reading and writing to files and importing modules to do most of the stuff you want to do.
I use Ubuntu, but I think I want to learn Visual Basic next. It’s a popular language and from what I’ve read, it’s supposedly very easy to learn. My dad has a laptop with Windows on it, so I’ll probably borrow it from him to learn VB. But there’s also MonoDevelop, which apparently supports .NET framework, so we’ll see. I still have more stuff to learn with Python anyway, so that’s what I’m focusing on for now.
I’ve been watching videos on khanacademy.org. I went through all the Computer Science videos, which is a basic introduction to Python. Apart from what I learned about Python, I learned about Fibonacci numbers, which go like this: The first two Fibonacci numbers are 0 and 1. The next Fibonacci number is the sum of the previous two Fibonacci numbers. So the sum of 0 and 1 is 1. The next one after that would be 1 + 1 = 2, and the next one after that would be 1 + 2 = 3. Next would be 2 + 3 = 5, 3 + 5 = 8, 5 + 8 = 13, 8 + 13 = 21, 13 + 21 = 34, and so on. So that short list of Fibonacci numbers is: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34. A neat thing about Fibonacci numbers is that when you divide one Fibonacci number by the next smallest Fibonacci number, the result is very close to the Golden Ratio. And the larger Fibonacci numbers you use, the closer their quotient is to the Golden Ratio. The Golden Ratio is about 1:1.618. It actually goes out to a great many more decimal places. So let’s look at that list of Fibonacci numbers and do the math:
Each quotient in that list is closer to 1.618 than the previous one. Pretty neat, huh?
This post is in response to The Daily Post.
I can’t really say that I’m happy or sad, but I think it’s probably good that the shuttle program is ending. NASA spent a lot of my money on it. According to the Boston Globe, it was expected to cost $90 billion, but more than doubled that projection with a total cost of about $196 billion. With twice their intended budget, they only made half their intended space flights. The space shuttle program was a financial failure, another typical government-run program. It seems to me that companies like Virgin Galactic are better suited to continue space exploration because they have the incentive of profit to motivate their efforts.
