Encyclopedia of things considered harmful

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Encyclopedia of things considered harmful

The world is full of things that most people think are OK or even good, when in<br>reality are either evil or plain stupid.

This is my humble contribution to attempt to collect all the things that<br>bother me, the goal is not to offend anyone but entertain and try to dispel<br>widespread silly ideas that infest our minds and perhaps in while doing that<br>make the world a bit more reasonable and pleasant place to live in.

No attempt has been made to be uncontroversial or politically correct.

If you think I&rsquo;m missing anything important, please feel free to write an<br>article about it and if I agree I will be happy to add it to this site.

Note: I just got started, there are hundreds of things I would like to<br>cover, I will try to add a new entry every other day or so, for updates see the<br>blog.

The main sections so far are:

Software

Economics

Society

You can also find other items in the left sidebar.

Items that I hope to cover in the future include: SQL, football, the Matrix,<br>svn*, postmodernism, gnu, religion, vi, education, apache, political<br>correctness*, respect, string theory, security circus*, complexity, locales, &lsquo;organic&rsquo; foods and<br>farming, BoM, ethanol, equality, TSA*, egalitarianism, metadata, &lsquo;feel good&rsquo; logic, ban<br>of trade in endangered species, labour theory of value, …

* Already started items.

Recommended sites

These are sites also dedicated at exposing the stupidity in our world:

Penn & Teller: Bullshit! - Penn & Teller can combine clear thinking and entertainment better than probably anyone else, and their show Bullshit! has been a source of equal amounts of inspiration and laughter.

Bad Science by Ben Goldacre - A great site about crackpot science.

James Randi Educational Foundation - Randi rocks

Johan Norberg - A Swedish writer devoted to globalisation and individual liberty

Free to Choose Media - The wisdom of Milton Friedman

Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure

Electronic Frontier Foundation

What is the Harm?