Archive for May, 2008

Brian’s Threaded Comments 1.5.19

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

With a few compatibility fixes.
Get it fresh from the google project page.

Finished The Selfish Gene

Monday, May 5th, 2008

I finally finished The Selfish Gene, 30th anniversary edition. The last 80 pages went by in a snap yesterday.

It casts some light on how the very general principle of replicator-level evolution can explain things such as differences in male/female behaviour, families, altruism, the odd social structures of ant hives and other natural phenomenon too numerous [...]

Help Sam Harris, Please

Monday, May 5th, 2008

If you're an atheist or a Christian believer, please help out Sam Harris with his research by answering one or more of the four surveys (choose which one at random):

http://www.samharris.org/

GTA4 for PS3 Crashes

Sunday, May 4th, 2008

I can't play the copy of Grand Theft Auto IV for the PS3 that my friend Rasmus managed to procure.
In my experience, crashes on consoles are exceedingly rare. I think I've probably seen less than 10 of them in release games over the years. 5 of them were in GTA4 yesterday.
I found a forum thread [...]