The new trailer is available here.

Link: Having O’Reilly on board the Rails (Loud Thinking).

Add to that, Tim O’Reilly himself picked up on another Rails philosophy the other day with Frameworks are Extractions:

    For example, basecamp wasn’t built on top of Ruby on Rails. Rather, Ruby on Rails was extracted from basecamp. This approach seems obvious and commonsense — but hardly common in this era of heavy web services standards-ware designed by technical committees far in advance of actual implementation.

My emphasis in italics….

Link: You and Your Research.

Why do so few scientists make significant contributions and so many are forgotten in the long run?

Link: Financial sensibility… in America? Wow! | MetaFilter.

J was talking today about complexity and it made me think of an Einstein quote that has always stuck in my head.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex… It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

I like to think I approach things from that opposite direction, but truthfully I’m so far away from that.

Link: HRW report | MetaFilter.

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Two lists worth looking at and thinking about. List 1 List 2

Link: Jesus Christ, SuperCop | MetaFilter.

WWJD

Link: csmonitor.com.

Based on your answers, you are most likely a realist. Read below to learn more about each foreign policy perspective.

Realists…

• Are guided more by practical considerations than ideological vision
• Believe US power is crucial to successful diplomacy - and vice versa
• Don’t want US policy options unduly limited by world opinion or ethical considerations
• Believe strong alliances are important to US interests
• Weigh the political costs of foreign action
• Believe foreign intervention must be dictated by compelling national interest

Link: Edge: THE MATHEMATICS OF LOVE: A Talk with John Gottman.

Metafilter has a bunch of interesting articles posted during the last week.