Nature (subscribers only, excerpt here) reports on an experiment whereby experimenters have repeated the Migram Experiment with a 3D modelled victim. As it turns out, the subjects responded both physiologically and emotionally to the stress induced by their virtual reality victim suffering - the news for researchers is that this may open the doors to […]

So, since re-joining the hordes of hackers-with-a-regular job earlier this year, I haven’t been able to do much with Smalltalk. Where I work, it’s PHP, Java, Javascript, Perl, shell scripting, etcetera. Since summer, it has been almost exclusively Java for me so it is maybe a good time to share my experiences.
First, Smalltalk has […]

Let’s be clear: this might prove a controversial post. I’m an atheist, and proud of it, so I stand 100% behind what Dawkins set out to do in this book–get people to drop their theistic beliefs in favour of atheism.
Yup, that’s right. In his newest book, The God Delusion, biologist Richard Dawkins is head-on […]