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Rudd-O.com
A shill for truth. Defiant heresy on cultural matters. Free software, voluntaryism and cypherpunk. Established 1999.
A few years ago, the inimitable Carl Sagan developed a set of "rules of thumb" to separate truth from crap. Here they are.
Remember playing with marbles when you were a kid? Well, here's how marbles are made, both the small ones and the big ones.
Pointless rules aren't "pointless" if you look at them from another perspective. Here's that perspective.
Holy shit, bonobos are disturbing monkeys!
We go apeshit at the mention of "free stuff". "No" doesn't necessarily mean "no" when we're horny. You will shop around for cheap cigarettes, but not for an expensive suit. Economics is dead wrong. And many other interesting findings.
...and I actually had one when I was three years old.
We haven't been able to determine how non-living forms gave way to lifeforms. Up to now.
Punishing people for animal cruelty makes no sense and is immoral. Here's why.
After fixing your video card issues, you can enjoy the full range of desktop effects available with Compiz and KWin in KDE 4.1 and above.
The latest iterations of popular Linux distros Fedora and Ubuntu include PulseAudio. Make sure you learn about it!
Earlier on, we discussed how to enable full-text RSS feeds. Now we'll discuss how to improve on that by preventing your full-text feeds from being harvested and posted on blogspammers' sites. The nice thing about this trick is that you can use it to include any sort of text on your RSS feeds, while leaving your site content completely unaffected.
You can let people syndicate your Plone site, searches or collections in full. Here's how.
Web servers (especially Plone, by default) work wonders in combination with an HTTP accelerator such as Varnish or Squid. But your iPhone readers are out of luck because of a grave bug on MobileSafari -- Plone sites are especially slow like molasses on the iPhone. Don't worry, here's a trick that will solve it.
Half of the population of the most powerful country in the world rejects evolution and believes in Satan. It's time we rationalists controlled the debate. And the way is likely to be by changing our language.
Hotlinkers suck your bandwidth dry, but referrals are valuable to you. Learn how to use Varnish to stop image hotlinkers while at the same time welcoming referred visitors and gaining a big performance edge.
Apparently there are some Varnish dudes out there who do not approve?
For when you need to divest a portion of your site into an altogether separate site.
One comment taken out of context by a person can be used to smear another by association. The truth needs to be repeated if this is to be avoided.
You can't expect Rick Astley to save everyone, can you?
Hint: if you get to keep the original, then you can't use the word "steal".