Archive for June 3rd, 2005

Ten Most Harmful Books … says who?

Published by ugo on June 3, 2005 in miscellaneous. 0 Comments

darwin.gifI don’t have any particular fondness for “The Communist Manifesto” or “Mein Kampf”, but putting “The Kinsey Report”, “Introduction to Psychoanalisis” and particularly “The Origin of Species” in the list of the most harmful books of the 19th and 20th century smacks of ignorance and placing ideology above science.

Charles Darwin has the dubious honor of being cited twice in the above mentioned list (once for “The Origin of Species” and once for “Descent of man”). Those stupid American right-wing, Christian fundamentalists still cannot reconcile the theory of evolution with their faith. Asshats.

HUMAN EVENTS ONLINE :: Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries: “HUMAN EVENTS asked a panel of 15 conservative scholars and public policy leaders to help us compile a list of the Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries. Each panelist nominated a number of titles and then voted on a ballot including all books nominated. A title received a score of 10 points for being listed No. 1 by one of our panelists, 9 points for being listed No. 2, etc. Appropriately, The Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, earned the highest aggregate score and the No. 1 listing.”

The Open Source Zone enters beta

Published by ugo on June 3, 2005 in opensource. 1 Comment

Sporting a new name and a new domain, The Open Source Zone (the website formerly known as Source.zone) is officially starting today its beta testing period.

Quoting from the home page:

The Open Source Zone’s aim is to create a storefront for access to Open Source projects. The storefront will have the same level of participation that users give back to Amazon or iTunes by providing their personal feedback in form of reviews, ratings, comments, developers who liked this project also liked this other one.

In the coming days, most of the work will consist of adding more content (which is sorely lacking) and fixing the (hopefully few) bugs that will pop up.

If you feel like contributing, the site is open in pure wiki style: no registration and no email confirmation. Just click on Add new project or contribute a review.