The Plenitude of Arboreal Beauty

In The World as Will and Representation, Arthur Schopenhauer offers an encyclopedic vision of a dichotomized world; half of the world is mere appearance or representation, while the other half consists of things-in-themselves, inner natures, Will. Schopenhauer borrows the language and concepts from his general system of metaphysical duality, most notably the concept [...]

Athrun cooked up a nice Banshee plugin for Do based on my Rhythmbox one. It looks very promising. If you’re interested, go give it a spin and report any problems to Athrun!

“If it weren’t for God, I wouldn’t be here–I’d be out doing something wrong.” –The guy who’s always reading a Bible at Bucks
If this is really true, I guess it’s a good thing that this guy has faith, but this still makes me pretty nervous.

I’d like to respond to some early criticism I’ve seen of GNOME Do.
“Why is it written in a Windows-specific language? It would have better for them to write it in Python.”

I get the idea that most of the people saying this simply don’t understand what they’re talking about. Yes, Do plugins have the extension “.dll”, [...]

As more people are using GNOME Do, I keep getting nagged about how GNOME Do doesn’t do this or that. This is exactly why GNOME Do has a plugin system for adding to the items and actions GNOME Do provides. For example, many people have said “Launchy/Quicksilver/Katapult/my mom has a Google search action, why doesn’t [...]

For Thomas Hobbes, a person living in a pre-legal state, or state of nature, has a natural right to anything one deems useful for survival, including things to which other people have similar rights (L 80). Hobbes calls this set of natural rights “the Right of Nature” (L 79), and argues that as long as [...]