Results tagged “misc” from journal

"Prototypes can be deceptively attractive to people who don't know that they are just prototypes."

The Pragmatic Programmer

• Grab the nearest book.
• Open it to page 56.
• Find the fifth sentence.
• Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these # instructions.
• Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.

Done on the blogs of Justin Lilly, Brian Rosner, Barbara Shaurette, James Tauber, and Eric Florenzano as well.

The New Mexico Human Rights Commission is fining a husband-wife team of Christian photographers $6000 dollars for refusing to photograph a lesbian commitment ceremony. Read the full article if you want more background on this case. There are a couple of blog posts that touch on the subject at MarioBurgers and ThomasHawk. If you read the posts and comments, the opinions of the readers and authors seem to be split into two issues and three sides. Discrimination vs. Freedom of Choice from the angle of Christians, Gay Rights Activists and Business Owners. What immediately struck me is the rights (or lack of in this case) that a business owner has in refusing projects.