- Why not “genocide”?
In our society, we have detectives who investigate a crime, lawyers who prosecute the offenders and judges who sentence them. If a crime is in progress, we call the police; we are not expected to stop it ourselves—unless it’s genocide. This is the distinction that the Genocide Convention makes, in its very first article:
Thursday, February 7th, 2008
Article 1
The [...] - mekentosj Papers
Papers is an application to help you find, organise, read, and search all those PDFs that you accumulate during research. It is written by two nerds—sorry, scientists—in the Netherlands (and now UK), and won an Apple Design Award in 2007.
Saturday, September 29th, 2007
I downloaded the demo to help me with a biochem assignment. So far it only searches [...] - Queen’s U. proxy bookmarklet
“Great, I found the article I was looking for! But wait, what’s this? I can only see the abstract? Oh yeah, I forgot to log into the proxy.”
Saturday, September 15th, 2007
If this happens to you as often as it does to me, you might be interested in using this bookmarklet: Proxy it. Just drag that link to your [...] - Uninvited StatCounter script in Wordpress
Summary: I found uninvited StatCounter HTML in my footer. Delete the theme’s functions.php file and remove the call to credits() in the theme’s footer.php, or redownload directly from the template’s creator (or some reputable website).
Tuesday, August 14th, 2007 - NewsFire to Vienna
NewsFire doesn’t alert me on error. Vienna does.
Friday, August 10th, 2007
Vienna seems to have tweaked the UI a little since I last tried it, and it’s working fine for me. It might not be quite as pretty as NewsFire, but at least I know when there’s a problem with one of the feeds.
And, to make it final, I’ve [...]