Vandalized lighthouse looks like a scene from HL2

This is a sad story with a silver lining. Cape Meares Lighthouse is an open-to-the-public inactive lighthouse on the cost of Oregon. It is on the National Register of Historic Places. At the risk of editorializing, some jerks vandalized the lighthouse in January of this year, riddling it with bullets. It may cost more than […]


Is Linux-on-the-desktop already mainstream?

Caitlyn Martin at O’Reilly examines the idea that Linux only has a 1% market share on desktops (including laptops), and finds that it’s lacking. This 1% number comes primarily from usage shares detected by web browsers. However, Martin says that the 1% number simply doesn’t make sense. For example, Linux had 32% of the netbook […]

QUESTION: Are Atheists Really Smarter?

A dating website has implied that atheists are more educated or intelligent than religious people. But applying the rationality that is supposed to accompany atheist thought highlights some major caveats. It’s not often you can release a set of statistics comparing the reading levels of people of different religions and it be among the least […]

The British were playing D&D on Television in the 80s.

Here’s an odd one from the past. Around the same time that Double Dare was being shown in American households, British television had “Knightmare,” a game show where one contestant would play a “dungeoneer,” traveling through an animated dungeon of chromakey rooms. He would be guided by three other contestants, hunkered over a television screen, […]