Hah. Looks like it was true. Google just acquired YouTube.

posted by dharh 4:30 PM Oct 9th, 2006 via idt


It's been a while since I updated my full list of books so I decided to remove the list and just keep what you see below which is a small subset of that list.

Most Recently Bought - Most Recently Read

Currently Reading
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins

Most Recently Bought

  • Carlin, George
    • Braindroppings
  • Diamond, Jared
    • Guns, Germs, and Steel
  • Lessig, Lawrence
    • The Future of Ideas
    • Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace
    • Free Culture
  • McWilliams, Peter
    • Life 101
  • Ratti, Oscar (Westbrook, Adele)
    • Secrets of the Samurai
  • Shapero, Rich
    • Wild Animus
  • Stephenson, Neal
    • The System of the World
  • Stover, Matthew
    • Star Wars Episode III: Revent of the Sith
  • Vaidhyanathan, Siva
    • The Anarchist in the Library
  • Watts, Duncan J.
    • Six Degrees

    Most Recently Read

  • David McCullough
  • Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan
    • The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God
  • Adams, Douglas
    • The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy
  • Bryson, Bill
    • A Short History of Nearly Everything
  • Jones, Steve
    • Darwin's Ghost: The Origin of Species Updated
  • Shermer, Michael
    • The Science of Good and Evil
  • Thomas L. Friedman

posted by dharh 11:13 PM Oct 6th, 2006 via idt


Life is interesting. I will always be amazed with life no matter how old I get. Life holds so many questions one hardly even figures out all the questions let alone all the answers. The more answers you get the more questions you have. Of course this has never stopped us from trying to get the answers. In fact many peoples lives revolve around getting answers one way or another.

Even worse are the questions of the universe and existence itself. It's hard enough trying to figure out the questions of our life and our planet but add in the question of Life, the Universe, and Everything it starts to get a little too big. Still that doesn't seem to stop people from trying either, even myself.

Being that there are so many questions one may ask why not just forget about it. No one could possibly hope to answer all the questions. Why not blissfully turn the cold shoulder and just live life without asking questions? You might as well try not to breath. Asking questions is part of what makes us sentient. People need to ask questions, if not to figure out the whole picture, then to maybe figure out their little part of the great big vast universe. To better understand their immediate surroundings.

By understanding ourselves and our surroundings, however small they may be compared to all that is out there, we have come to where we are today. We have learned to adapt to our surroundings and even grasp what was before beyond our reach. It does seem pretty much impossible to know everything about life and the universe. But by focusing on single subjects of interest people have throughout the ages made breakthroughs in those areas. From such things as electricity to aerodynamics and computers to cars. None of this would be here if we hadn't asked those questions of why the world works and worked together to answer them.

Questions I want answers to

  1. Why do we have sneakers with lights in them?
  2. Why do we have scented toilet paper?
  3. Why do we have handicapped parking in front of the skate center?
  4. Why do we call it politics when the Latin the word Poli means many, and a tic is a blood sucking creature?
  5. Why do we hate violent video games but violent news is ok?
  6. Why is it that doctors call what they do "practice"?
  7. Why is man who invests all your money called a broker?
  8. Why do they sterilize the needle for lethal injections?
  9. If con is the opposite of pro, is Congress the opposite of progress?
  10. Why do so many people think happiness depends on the pushing around of little green pieces of paper?
  11. Why does my cat purr when he's biting me?

posted by dharh 11:02 PM Oct 6th, 2006 via idt


A long time ago I used to write for a multi topic online magazine called Curiosity's Escape. My column was Inside Kane's Head from back in the day I used kane for handle. Time came when the magazine's editor pretty much disappeared so I no longer had a place to write for. Since then I have written various other things sometimes for classes I've taken and sometimes for my website. Now in deep thought has pretty much turned into the place I post my daily thoughts and post my ramblings. This space is generally just another container for organization.


posted by dharh 10:48 PM Oct 6th, 2006 via idt


Experimental HTML and AJAX stuff i'm playing around with.


posted by dharh 9:58 PM Oct 6th, 2006 via idt


Someone has already done the leg work for the question I know everyone had. How many fucks are in the code on the web? You can find out here.

posted by dharh 5:08 PM Oct 5th, 2006 via idt


Slashdot has the skinny on Google Code Search which Google just released. Here's a direct link to the cnet story.

posted by dharh 8:44 AM Oct 5th, 2006 via idt


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