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Keep up with Perette
I know you all can't get enough of me, so I'm all suave and communication-enabled with more invasive, annoying, stupid technologies than you can shake a stick at. Check me out!
Essays
Science/Tech
- Reason, Intuition, and Religious Tolerance Comparing and constrasting reason and intuition, good and bad theories, experience and explanations, logic and reason-- all leading to my conclusion on the 'religious tolerance' that has been demanded of me recently.
- Science vs. Pseudoscience: Essential Differences There are essential differences between science and pseudoscience, which are the reason our world has experienced such a deluge of pseudoscience recently-- and will probably continue to.
- The Problems of the Bazaar A response to Eric Raymond's Cathedral and the Bazaar asserting that the rapid change, excess competition, and increasing complexity of Open Source is hurting involvement, and that the OSS movement must address its issues or it will eventually experience declining participation.
- More Science & Technology...
Social/Political
- Internet Overload David Shenk and others have discussed 'information overload' in their books, and here I assemble my thoughts and experience on the issue.
- East Avenue Wegmans Persepective Perette's perspective on a new Wegmans on East Avenue: She likes the current, reasonably-sized one.
- Marketing Perette A comparison of writing styles describing Perette as a study in marketing speak.
- More Social & Political...
Fun
- Consumerism & Me a/k/a Inventory Hell ( 151 words) A series of audio pieces about consumerism based on things I saw and experienced while working as an inventory auditor.
- The Importance of Skilled Taco Assembly Tacos: Why only properly trained, skilled food service personnel should assemble these delicious Mexican morsels.
- The TRUE Web Browser TRUE: A new fully CSS-compliant web browser designed to fight information overload on the Internet (humor).
- More Fun...
