From The Gothamist: The Greenwich Village Bakery in Manhattan started making a new cookie called “Drunken Negro Face” cookies in honor of our new president. According to the article, the owner’s explanation is “They’re in honor of our new president. He’s following in the same path of Abraham Lincoln; he will get his.”
"Drunken Negro Face" Cookies
This is an impressive level of racism. I hope he gets his from all the publicity this causes.
Gepostet von Stani is a very cool person. He created an open source IDE for Python called SPE (Stani’s Python Editor). He really outdid himself now, though. He designed a new comemorative coinve for the Dutch government. Read on…
At the Software Development Best Practices conference yesterday, I went to a session on Human-Centered Risk Management. It was totally fascinating! One topic that was discussed was Rhetorical fallacies.
Rhetorical fallacies, or fallacies of argument, don’t allow for the open, two-way exchange of ideas upon which meaningful conversations depend. Instead, they distract the reader with various appeals instead of using sound reasoning. They can be divided into three categories:
Ok, this is embarrassing. I have a watchdog app monitoring my server from another box, which sends sms messages to my cellphone. One of the test is for the words “Welcome to my eWorld” to appear on the front page, which my old site didn’t have.
I don’t know why the watchdog’s alert emails weren’t being sent out, but now they are. Hundreds of them. The fun part? I’m away at a conference, and the box running the watchdog requires a certificate to SSH to it, which I don’t have on my work laptop (for good reason). So the best solution I could come up with was to put “Welcome to my eWorld” on my front page. I’ll fix it when I get home. It’s either that or turn off my phone.