According to Higher Primates Can Program, "higher primates can perform software testing, traverse complex menus, and code simple XML schemas".

What's more, "None of the animals understood the Java programming language, even the ‘alpha’ animals. However, most subjects immediately understood Visual Basic 3.0".

Indeed - I think I've maintained some of their RPG, too.

Via Memory Dump.

Over Three Hundred Proofs of God’s Existence

4 ONTOLOGICAL ARGUMENT (II)
(1) I can conceive of a perfect God.
(2) One of the qualities of perfection is existence.
(3) Therefore, God exists

36 ARGUMENT FROM INCOMPLETE DEVASTATION
(1) A plane crashed killing 143 passengers and crew.
(2) But one child survived with only third-degree burns.
(3) Therefore, God exists.

Some more of my favorites:

25 ARGUMENT FROM INTERNET AUTHORITY
(1) There is a website that successfully argues for the existence of God.
(2) Here is the URL.
(3) Therefore, God exists.

50 ARGUMENT FROM INFINITE REGRESS
[1] Ask atheists what caused the Big Bang.
[2] Regardless of their answer, ask how they know this.
[3] Continue process until the atheist admits he doesn't know the answer to one of your questions.
[4] You win!
[5] Therefore, God exists

I've had this one for real:

51 ARGUMENT FROM INCREDULITY
(1) How could God NOT exist, you bozo?
(2) Therefore, God exists.

328 ARGUMENT FROM FEELING GOD'S PRESENCE
(1) Atheists just haven't truly felt God's presence yet.
(2) If they had ever felt God's presence, they would not be atheists.
(3) Theists have truly felt God's presence.
(4) Therefore, God exists.

Via As Above.

Update: Also, via fundamental atheism, The Brick Testament.

Take a look at the new Spider-Man II poster.

The last early release Spider-Man movie poster used the World Trade Centre as a back-drop. Now they are (I think) using the Empire State. Not asking for trouble, I hope.

Nice little windows utility - AR RAM Disk.

If you develop software, you probably have steps in your build process where you create a lot of temporary files. (For example, a typical Ant build process will compile a lot of Java into class files, then put them together into a jar file). Creating all these transient files would be quicker on a RAM disk, and would fragment your disk less.

If, that is, you have the RAM for it.

Via John Lipsky.

The erstwhile owners of New York's World Trade Centre are arguing with their insurers. Was each plane a separate attack? Or was did both constitute a single coordinated attack?

This matters, because there seems to be a maximum pay-out per event. So if there was only one event, the maximum payout would be 3½ billion dollars. If it were two, then it would be $7 billion.

See Insurance battle over Twin Towers.

It seems to me that, since you certainly couldn't consider both planes striking the WTC as a coincidence, then it must be one event. But then, I'm not a lawyer. And where there is 3½ billion dollars at stake, I'm sure that you can find lawyers who can prove just about anything, or go down trying.

And if you think the whole argument is ridiculous, I can tell you, from my exposure to the insurance industry, that this is by no means the most insane thing going on...

Andy pointed out a new RSS aggregator, Bloglines.

Prior to this week, I'd been using FeedReader. This was OK, but on Monday morning it threw all my subscriptions away, and not for the first time. So I consigned it to the bit bucket, and went looking for something new. Andy's post was timely.

Naturally, my first thought was the effbot's EffNews. But Bloglines' big advantage is that it's an online service - so you can use it from as many computers as you wish.

I've been playing with it since Monday. Works pretty good. There was a problem with configuration for a short while, but I emailed thier support team, and it was fixed PDQ.

I'd like to be able to configure the text size, and to nest folders within folders. I'm sure that this sort of thing will come with time. And success. ;-)

All in all, I like it. I hope they make some money.