The very fact that we agree that there are moral limits that trump any claim of religious freedom—we wouldn't accept a religion that engaged in human sacrifice or slavery, for instance—shows that we do not cede to religion, to any religion, the final authority on moral injunctions.

Daniel Dennett, author, http://www.science-spirit.org/article_detail.php?article_id=200

11.27.06

SPOJ!

Posted in Software Development at 4:23 pm

…is the SPhere Online Judge, which consists of a set of programming exercises, and a system for automatically judging the correctness of submitted answers (which may be written in any of a very large number of languages; they even have one of my favorites—PostScript®!).

After a quick scan, a couple projects that caught my eye were Hotline and The Next Palindrome.

Discovered via Digg.