May 2007
50 posts
Apple offers 160 gig Apple TV →
I was already planning on getting an Apple TV but the larger hard drive turns it up to 11. This means that my massive music library can be synced and there will still be plenty of room for TV shows, shorts, music videos and movies.
Star Wars' Libertarian Mission →
“What good’s all your uncle’s work if the Empire takes it over? You know they’ve already started to nationalize commerce in the central systems? It won’t be long before your uncle is just a tenant, slaving for the greater glory of the Empire.”
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Abandon All Unwinnable Wars →
War imagery may be the most commonly abused analogy in politics. War imagery is invoked to show determination to win. But as Senator Reid and others assert with regard to Iraq, shooting wars have no winners; just those who lose more and those who lose less as casualties mount.
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LewRockwell.com Blog: Good Riddance Attention... →
“…when I started to hold the Democratic Party to the same standards that I held the Republican Party, support for my cause started to erode and the ‘left’ started labeling me with the same slurs that the right used.”
Cindy Sheehan Quits Peace Movement →
This breaks my heart. Cindy has been brutally attacked from all sides, yet she kept on going. She didn’t do the things she did for attention, money or personal gain. Her son was killed and all she wanted was for the war to end so others didn’t have to die they way Casey did. Did she make some bad decisions along the way? Perhaps. Was her heart in t
I Lost My Son to a War I Oppose. We Were Both... →
Memorial Day orators will say that a G.I.’s life is priceless. Don’t believe it. I know what value the U.S. government assigns to a soldier’s life: I’ve been handed the check.
'Wiped off the Map' - The Rumor of the Century →
Somehow our media turned Ahmedinijad’s benign statement “As the Soviet Union disappeared, the Zionist regime will also vanish and humanity will be liberated.” into the menacing “Israel will be wiped out”. Our media also conveniently ignored the statement by Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, that “We will never start a war.”
How Can Bush Bring Democracy to Iraq When He... →
by Paul Craig Roberts—The Washington, DC, think-tank, The American Enterprise Institute, camouflages its purpose with its name. Its real name should be The Center for Middle East War.AEI has the largest collection of warmongers in America. AEI “scholars” have agitated for war in the Middle East for years. A moronic president and 9/11 gave th
U.S. candidate Paul assigns reading to Giuliani →
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Longshot Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul on Thursday gave front-runner Rudy Giuliani a list of foreign-policy books to back up his contention that attacks by Islamic militants are fueled by the U.S. presence in the Middle East.
Mises Economics Blog: 7 Years of Market Revolution... →
A Chinese co-worker recently returned from a visit back home after not being back in China since 2000. His account of the changes he saw from those 7 years of the (somewhat) unleashed market is amazing and encouraging.
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Scroll Wheel Tips in MacOS X →
Adam Engst of TidBITS describes all the cool little things you can do with your scroll wheel/scroll ball/two-finger scrolling on the Mac: Scroll Horizontally, Zoom In, Zoom Out, Scroll to Switch Applications, Per-Frame Advance in QuickTime Player, Tab History Navigation in Mozilla-based Browsers, Change Font Size in Firefox and Camino, etc.
““What kind of democracy is this when the people do speak and the peoples...”
– ‘What Kind of Democracy Is This?’- by Justin Raimondo Justin writes about the tragic death of prominent Iraq war critic Andrew Bacevich’s only son in Iraq.
Is Mises.org gaming Digg? →
No way. Popularity isn’t the only standard of truth and beauty, and it may not be a standard at all. But one can still detect the existence of a volition-driven meritocracy, even in the wild and crazy world of the web. (This post ends with a tribute to Bill Gates: digg it down!)
War Without Consequence? Absurd. →
A reasoned argument on the consequences of aggressive foreign policy. Paul Wolfowitz made the same points - four years before Giuliani criticized Ron Paul by saying he had ‘never heard of such a thing’.
The Market Function of Piracy →
In marketing the most effective way to introduce new products is the free sample. In 1978 Lever Brothers spent $15 million ($47.55 million in today’s currency) delivering a free sample of Signal Mouthwash to two-thirds of all US households. The strategy was a success and the product remained on the market well into the 1990s.
BREAKING NEWS: Ron Paul on CNN Late Edition... →
Ron Paul does an outstanding job defending his principles on CNN’s Late Edition - Sunday May 20, 2007
LewRockwell.com Blog: One Word of Truth →
Since seeing a clip of Ron Paul’s exchange with Rudy Giuliani, and the discussion it has sparked, I kept thinking of part of a phrase that I knew somehow came from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: “One word of truth”. It is from a Russian proverb that he quoted at the end of his Nobel lecture: “One word of truth shall outweigh the whole world.” I am glad I finally looked up...
macosxhints.com - A shortcut to help with file... →
“…while holding down Option, press the right arrow key. This will bring you to the end of the filename, but before the dot extension.”
10.4: See a list of related words in the... →
Very nice tip about the Dictionary widget in MacOS X 10.4.
LewRockwell.com Blog: Lew's Post of Rosie... →
Strange things afoot. A foreign policy discussion on a daytime talk show led by Rosie O’Donnell that is better than what the politicos have been giving us for the last six years.
Rosie Defends Ron Paul -- what is this nation... →
Wow! I never thought I would agree with Rosie O’ Donnell on anything. Watch this eye-opening discussion… And ask yourself — why can’t our presidential candidates have as candid a discussion?
Can We End the American Empire Before It Ends Us? →
Brilliant historian and essayist Chalmers Johnson argues that unless we face up to the tremendous strain our empire is having on America, we will lose our democracy, and then it will not matter much what else we lose.
SRS iWOW Plug-in for Mac →
This is a plug-in for iTunes that improves the sound from music, podcasts and videos greatly. Amazingly. It is like getting much more expensive headphones and speakers for $20. Give the free trial a try! Thanks to Bob “Dr. Mac” LeVitus on the MacNotables podcast for the recommendation. (There is a PC version though I don’t think it is an iTunes plug-in.)
Ron Paul Responds on CNN's Situation Room,... →
Giuliani… You. Just. Got. Served. Ron Paul discusses at length the full meaning behind last night’s controversial remarks, calling Giuliani out as a politician “hiding behind patriotism” and demands an apology from Rudy for last night’s debacle. This is a must-watch to be sent to every Republican you know.
LewRockwell.com Blog: A Tragedy →
Andrew J. Bacevich, author of The New American Militarism and persistent critic of the Iraq war, lost his only son in that war on Sunday.
Spiderman 3 - A story of the old socialism →
An unexpected pleasure of watching any Spider-Man movie, and the new release of the third is no exception, is that it allows the viewer to be a voyeur of a largely abandoned ideology, the perspective of the old, old Left.
Empire or Republic: How Did It All Come To This? →
We now live in a country in which the president wields the power to send the entire nation into war on his own initiative, without the congressional declaration of war required by the Constitution. We live in a country in which the president and the military wield the power to arrest an American citizen and incarcerate him in a military …….
Sex, Drugs and Updating Your Blog →
Jonathan Coulton sat in Gorilla Coffee in Brooklyn, his Apple PowerBook open before him, and began slogging through the day’s e-mail. Coulton is 36 and shaggily handsome. In September 2005, he quit his job as a computer programmer and, with his wife’s guarded blessing, became a full-time singer and songwriter.
Mises Economics Blog: Deep, Hardcore Links →
And what other serious, scholarly resource features a Talosian?
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Jesus and War by John W. Whitehead →
“For three centuries,” writes biblical scholar Walter Wink in The Powers That Be (1998), “no Christian author to our knowledge approved of Christian participation in battle.”
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“Tertullian had pithy advice for soldiers who converted to Christianity: quit the...”
– Jesus and War by John W. Whitehead
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“Our media system is not a “free market” because it is built largely...”
– The Myth of Free Markets In Media
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RadicalLiberation.com →
Finally updated with a birth announcement of our son (who is now 5 months old… Amazing how time flies when you’ve had 3 children in less than 3 years). Also added a pointer to this tumblelog.
Delivery Status →
A widget that finally justifies the Dashboard. Create one instance for each package you’re tracking. Supports Amazon, FedEx, etc.
Once again, the internet wins.
Vimeo / Lip Dub - Flagpole Sitta by Harvey Danger Once again, the internet wins. [via: mathowie]
Stephen W. Carson: http://radicalliberation.tumblr.com/ (via Twitter / Stephen W. Carson)
Stephen W. Carson: Meeting my family at the mall. Play area, rides, Brooks Brothers, Apple Store. Such fun! (via Twitter / Stephen W. Carson)
“Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by...”
– Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
LRC Blog: When the Going Gets Tough, Ratch Up the... →
Playlist: Saving and loading playlists →
How to move playlists from one iTunes to another. (Will this work between different computers?)
Stephen W. Carson: Weekly Review. Though I haven’t done it in a couple weeks. (via Twitter / Stephen W. Carson)
Quicksilver tutorial and screencast roundup →
I can’t even begin to describe how wonderful Quicksilver really is. Nor can I adequately describe exactly what it is. But I will say this - if you own a Mac - download and install Quicksilver right now, then start watching a few of these screencasts and/or read a few of the tutorials. It won’t take long for you to wonder how you survived without it