DizzyDoo

Western culture, generally, tends towards a "you can think what you like about morality, but don't you dare measure other people up to that standard" mindset. What you have noted is a good example of where such a mindset tends to snap.

Additionally, the person making the statement "I don't think you should measure other people up to your own standard of morality" is actually doing exactly what they purport to rail against.

I love Calvin and Hobbes, and respect Bill Watterson but the following just is not true: "Watterson sacrificed millions (probably hundreds of millions) of dollars by never licensing and merchandising Calvin and Hobbes."

Sure, you cannot buy a licensed mug with Hobbes on it like you can with Garfield or Snoopy, but Watterson has surely made millions on the many book collections of his work. And book volumes are certainly merchandising.

Absolutely, he has given up the lucrative money that other cartoonists like Jim Davis have achieved by licensing/merchandising anything/anyhow, and still more by ending the comic after 'only' 10 years, but it's probably an easier decision to forgo the tackiness when the books have done as well as they have.

I care about poverty and war and politics and curing cancer, of course, but that's not all I think about 100% of the time. I can only speak so definitely for myself, but I'd be willing to bet that you don't either. You could apply your logic to all sorts of things, and look down your nose at having a drink with friends, or walks along the beach, or painting, or playing the piano. Why play with your kids, there are diseases to be cured, come on! None of really live our lives like that.

Actually, my main problem with this particular Kickstarter is the blatant copyright infringement, which Kickstarter usually takes down.

I absolutely love Shut Up and Sit Down, I followed Quinns over from Rock Paper Shotgun and have enjoyed the videos very much since. I'm very happy to hear you're profitable already.

I would love to see what the Quinns and Paul think of Machine Of Death, a similarly mega-funded card game Kickstarter (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1234131468/machine-of-de...) when it arrives.

No, it came out a while back, and it was pretty poorly reviewed: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/09/05/wot-i-think-achro...

I used f.lux for a few months last year, I did not stick with it because:

• It overrode the brightness settings on my screen, so it was actually much brighter than I would normally have it.

• Whenever I needed to work on anything with colours (most design tasks) I would have to turn it off to get hues correct.

The first one may have been sorted out by this point though.

Even the best captcha methods can be circumvented by farming them out to poorer countries for only pennies.

I use Twitter in a very different way than Facebook though, and for very different reasons. I follow a small group of smart, funny or creative people that tweet really interesting stuff, but personally I tweet only a few times a month. Am I alone in that I don't use Twitter as a social networking tool, and more of a broadcasting-listening tool?

To anyone looking at my twitter, it might seem extremely quiet and ghost-townish, but I am using Twitter much more than Facebook and getting more from it, albeit passively.

A good article, but I don't want the Flask web framework (http://flask.pocoo.org/) to go unnoticed. I struggled along with Django for a number of months, and since I was just beginning web development I felt like I was fighting the large framework, even to build the simplest app. Upon discovering Flask I found it refreshingly simple, and when I moved on to more complicated applications I found it scaled beyond 'toy' apps. It really is worth a look for any Python developer.

It's an interesting question, are we in a Matrix, or computer simulation, or the slightly older theory from 1641 where Rene Descartes imagined an omnipotent demon lying to him. Maybe I'm simplifying the question, but I reckon it boils down to how do we know what we know? Am I sat in front of a computer screen now, or do I just believe I am?

I'm not really a philosopher, at all, but the Oxford Companion to Philosophy says:

"Do you know that you are looking at a... book right now rather than, say, having your brain intricately stimulated by a mad scientist? The sceptic carefully describes this alternative so that no experiment can refute it. The conclusion that you really are looking at a book, however, explains the aggregate of your experiences better than the mad scientist hypothesis or any other competing views."

which I think makes sense to me. I've met one or two people who say they believe that they live in a Matrix/Alien computer simulation, but observing, they live as if they don't.

Quick thought on the copy -

"Get SupportBee - The Simple & Snappy Email Ticketing Software that doesn't kill your Human Face"

It took me a few seconds to realise that what was meant was a company's human face, not my literal face.

This reminds me of the Peters Projection, one of the weirder attempts to map the oblate spheroid nature of the earth to a 2D plane.

http://www.petersmap.com/

"The Go 1 release will be available in source and binary form for at least these platforms: ... Windows (2000 + later): amd64, 386"

I develop primarily on a Windows machine, so this is some good news.

Check your process list for 'rcpnetp.exe'. Just checked my six month old Toshiba Satellite Pro C650, happily it was clean.

Just given this a go and I can see that the domain name is given an expiry date. How do expiries work? Is there an email that comes around in one years time to keep it open, or something similar?

But Sean didn't come across as a nice guy at all, so your average movie-goer doesn't care if Sean really knew his stuff or not. The bit towards the end where Eduardo says something similar to "I like standing next to you Sean... makes me feel so tough" is a small 'win' moment for him.

Didn't pay attention to the 'Generator' part of the title, and got "Market schoolchildren to schoolchildren". I was confused for a good ten seconds.

I'm a CS student in East Sussex, England. Having paid so, so much money to buy Uni books, I would absolutely love anything to do with C++ and Python. Anything at all.

Don't write software because it'll cause a blackhole? I agree, that is ridiculous. I'm joking of course, the thing people are concerned about is being spied upon and never knowing it. That's not ridiculous.

I don't particularly like the software's intended purpose, but I have to say, it's really very clever.