What I read last week 6.2

[1] Gin, television and social surplus
I just love the idea that there is massive attention tsunami building and building ...

[2] Nick Bostrom's Home Page
If you want to cause a fracas at your next dinner party, read The Simulation Argument. Also, check out his TED Talk on "The 3 Biggest Problems for Humanity", linked off his home page: death, existential risk, and an inability to know how good things can really be.

[3] Where are they? Why I hope the search for extraterrestrial life finds nothing.
He's got a point.

[4] Content with style - A CSS framework.
This is brilliant - someone has applied the logic of software framework design to the creation of a set of stylesheets. Very well done. AppFuse uses this framework (or a variation on it).