screenwriting Deadly Sins of Screenwriting Art has month purposes, but its sacred one is to reveal truth. Greek mythology and the Bible all speak in stories. Aristotle uses the same word as St Paul to
christianity The Increasingly Strange Case of Ravi Zacharias Why would the most famous Christian apologist since C.S Lewis own spas, threaten suicide in an email to a married woman, have a secret corporate board, settle lawsuits with
china Fourth Generation Culture Warfare and the Trojan Tiger Despite obvious comparisons to Orwell's literary observations of Stalin's regime, it's impossible not to notice how the Chilling Effect from the recent social media mania in liberal Western democracies is
screenwriting Understanding How The Other Species Communicates: A Study For Life Tucked away in Leigh Michaels' (LeAnn Lemberger's) excellent writers' guide, "On Writing Romance" (2007), is a fascinating snippet about male/female relations which wouldn't be amiss in the self-help section
academia The Academic Virus Deliberately Designed for the Corruption of Everything "We're trained Marxists", says Patrisse Khan-Cullors into a webcam recently. "We spent the year reading, anything from Marx, to Lenin, to Mao, learning all types of global critical theory and
history Re-Print: Anonymous Letter From the Department of History, UC Berkeley The following letter was sent by a black history professor to 2 academic colleagues: Wilfred Reilley (Assistant Professor of Political Science, Kentucky State University) and Thomas Sowell (Professor of Economics,
marxism The Ugly Spectre of Marxism Raises Its Medusa Head Again If you're a Marxist, say you're a Marxist. Don't use the unjustified killing of a black man by abusive police officers as a cynical proxy for your attempts to succeed
samsung Battling With Samsung SmartThings IoT: A Lesson In the Importance of Terminology & Lessening The Pain You've suffered. You've gone round in circles. You've re-read the same page multiple times. You've even drawn it out on a few whiteboards. You've read it again. You've tried to
software Electrifying APIs With Websockets: WAMP + REST Websockets is a fantastic real-time technology which has struggled to catch on because of the significant knowledge gap between fast-moving frontend developers, and more traditional server-side programmers. To understand how
hollywood Toxic Tropes & Hollywood Economics That Hollywood sees itself as a vehicle for social engineering is no secret. Whether it's the countless pro-America military extravaganzas (Top Gun, anyone?) or the mockery of it (Team America:
software Programmable Cloud Wifi Networks, Linux Router APIs, And Smarter Hospitality To answer your question, yes, there are Wifi routers with APIs you can talk to in order to dynamically configure their settings, like hotspots and SSIDs. Wifi doesn't have to
10,000 HLS/RTMP Live Video Streaming Servers With Docker + Nginx It used to be hours of tedious work, combined with expensive proprietary licenses for single-server software desperately straining a CDN. Video streaming was a pain. A real pain. If it
An Arduino Wifi Racetrack For Remote Controlled Toy Cars & Boats Why? Because inside every man is a six year-old waiting to re-emerge. Sometimes you don't need a reason for a project. You simply do it because its awesome level breaks
blockchain Censorship-Proof Blockchain DNS Systems The Blockchain is many things. It's undoubtedly a work of genius to a problem most people don't realise even exists because we take it for granted so often. It's provoked
COVID-19: The Movie You can substitute the word "Coronavirus" for "zombie" and the context is almost the same. Fear of disease is right at the bottom of the human brain stem. Stay at
academia Dedicated New Site for The Devils' Glossary With dozens of new entries, one of the most popular posts on the site - and the reason for a ban from a popular writing website bombarded with activist trolls
drugs Illegal Chemistry Vol.2 - New/Novel Psychoactive Substances (NPS) Alexander Shulgin died in 2014, but his legacy lives on. Breaking Bad finished, and captivated viewers in a way most producers couldn't have imagined. In the period of 2009-2017, 803
political correctness Sandbox Theory: Silicon Valley's Matrix Experiment The notable increase of globalism in the 1990s, particularly the Internet age, has yielded a realignment of our politics in the Western world to a re-emergent paradigm of individualism vs.
mathematics The Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) For Adventurous Types It's a deceptively complex mathematical conundrum. You have 5, 10, or 20 destinations you want to batch together into a road trip. You need to find the fastest and/or
maps The Most Extraordinarily Sci-Fi Places On Planet Earth Most of us have only been able to see the planet since 1972. Amazing as it might seem, we had no idea what our floating rock really looked like until
education How did we get here? A primer guide to understanding unreality It can often feel as if the world has gone mad or turned upside down. How did we get from the age of reason to barely knowing or caring what
php Supercharged Laravel: Action Processors, Data Caching, and Model Composites Laravel has a lot of detractors, but there are two things of which any developer can be certain: a) whether you like it or not, PHP is undoubtedly the most
political correctness The Devil’s Glossary of 2019 Newspeak Ever wonder where that fashionable nonsense crazypeople preach all over the media and internet comes from? Where that bizarrely-Orwellian academic phrasing originated? Confused about internalized hegemonic patriarchy-centric-discourse over heterobinaries? Who
extremism Outdated Foes On New Platforms Children lie dead. Barely hours after the mass murder of 49 people, interest groups from all ends of the spectrum claim the latest appalling slaughter is confirmation of their existing
free speech The Glorious, Subversive Chaos of Free Speech What’s the easiest way to convert a swing-thinker to a moderate? Expose them to extremism. Want to convert an ordinary person into an extremist? Tell them what they’re
