We’re always pleased when our readers write to us with questions or comments that really make us think. Here, for example, is reader K.S., who writes: Perhaps it was intended facetiously, if so I ...

XML is truly wonderful stuff. I’ve spent the last 20 years (more or less) working with markup and plan to spend the next 20 (indifferent universe willing) doing the same. However, there are some major ...

To persuade you, people often try to use logical fallacies (Credit: Javier Hirschfeld) When people are trying to persuade you, they sometimes reach for underhand tricks like the 'appeal to ignorance' ...

"And he was never known to make a foolish move." Bob Dylan "You can fool all of the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people ...