Why do we drive like jerks, and behave like assholes on the internet?
Some of the more seemingly sophisticated arguments for God (or some type of higher power) revolve around the mysterious nature of human morality. Dismissing evolutionary explanations for morality, some people believe that we simply cannot explain traits like altruism through the evolution [...]

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The BBC has published this follow-up on the legality of Google Street View in the UK, which I had previously written about here. Thankfully, the Information Commissioner has ruled on the side of sanity by upholding Britain’s privacy laws as they are written, as opposed to how they are sometimes interpreted by certain police [...]

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Privacy advocacy group ‘Privacy International’ in the UK is all up in arms about Google Street View’s recent endeavor to start mapping out the streets of England. The BBC writes about it here.
Privacy debates are always interesting to me, because despite the legitimate points that can be raised on either side of the issue, [...]

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Today I had two hard drives (one of them was my system drive) fail on me at the same time. With computers, it is common knowledge that if something is going to go wrong, then a bunch of things are going to go wrong all at the same time.
Of course, that’s not true. [...]

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