July 2007
54 posts
A Home for Wayward Podcasts (Typecast) →
Happy day! This lets me take a random mp3 and get it listed in iTunes (and therefore iPod/iPhone) as a podcast. Click here if you want to skip the commentary and get straight to the download. This is a couple years old but it worked great for me.
This is Mac only. PC hackers need merely duplicate these simple steps:
Believe it or not, I had to implement a custom HTTP server that, from within...
DOING IT WRONG →
Just hit refresh once and then see if you can stop there. Very funny. Very addictive. [Thanks to BK Marcus]
WatchBabies Eating Lemons. Enough said. via
NewsGator for iPhone (iPhone link) →
I’ve been waiting for this. I got on the NewsGator train when they bought the outstanding RSS reader NetNewsWire. I’ve been very happy with the service which lets me get to my subscriptions and an up-to-date list of unread articles in a variety of ways. I wondered what their iPhone solution would be like and it is amazing. I now know what I’ll be doing when I’m stuck...
“Those whom the State would annihilate, it first expropriates.”
– William Norman Grigg, “The Reich Wing: Bush-Era Conservatism as Reductio Ad Absurdum”. The thesis of my Independent Review article Stealing and Killing in one pithy sentence.
'Why Do They Hate Us?' →
Mohsin Hamid writes:
…there is another major reason for anti-Americanism: the accreted residue of many years of U.S. foreign policies. These policies are unknown to most Americans. They form only minor footnotes in U.S. history. But they are the chapter titles of the histories of other countries, where they have had enormous consequences.
…Americans need to educate themselves, from...
The Death Camp of Communist China →
Short and moving article about the horrors caused by Socialist/Communist ideology in China. Everyone should know at least this much about China’s recent history.
The Long History of Lies for War - Mises Institute →
David Gordon reviews The Ruses for War: American Interventionism Since World War II by John B. Quigley.
The purpose of his book, Quigley tells us, is to explore “U.S. military actions abroad over the past half-century. We look in each instance at what the president and his aides said, and what reasons they gave. Then we examine the situation in light of what is known today to determine...
Redistribution vs. Charity
It is a commonplace, for libertarians at least, that coercive redistribution cuts into charity by reducing the funds available for charitable giving. But Arthur C. Brooks, in his book Who Really Cares, points to another effect of redistribution on giving… To be precise, an effect of a belief in redistribution. From an interview with Brooks in the Acton Institute’s Religion &...
Why Germans Supported Hitler →
I’ve long felt that the “hindsight is 20/20” condemnation of Germans under Nazism is worse than useless. If we do not understand why the Nazi government had support from the German people then we have learned nothing from history… And are doomed to repeat it. Jacob Hornberger does an excellent job of painting an all too familiar picture of how ordinary Germans felt they...
iPhone Troubleshooting: How to Restart, quit... →
Hadn’t heard about this one, (haven’t needed it yet either fortunately):
Quit a frozen iPhone app: I know it’s a crazy thought, but it is entirely possible that Apple’s wondrous iPhone apps can lock up from time to time. In this case, simply hold the Home button when in the app for about 6 seconds to kill the app. You should be able to jump back into the app without...
Trying out tumblr.com’s solution for posting from a mobile. Simple and clever.
A Low-Fi Solution to E-Mail Overload: Sentenc.es →
Interesting solution to a problem I deal with regularly:
When faced with an inbox of 100-400 messages, I usually find myself replying to the messages which are quickest to reply to, rather than which are most important to reply to. The end result is a continual paring down of my inbox until I have 50 really important messages to reply to which are then too old to take care of.
His solution:
Every...
Why you pretend to like modern art →
In his follow-up to “Admit it - you really hate modern art”, Spengler goes in a direction that I’m sure shocked readers who were only perturbed by his first piece:
You have your heart set on being creative because you want to worship yourself, your children, or some pretentious impostor, rather than the god of the Bible. Absence of faith has not made you more rational. On the...
Admit it - you really hate modern art →
In this first piece on modern art, Spengler tries to talk people out of pretending they enjoy modern art when they really don’t. He uses the contrast between how people react to modernist music versus how they react to modern art to make his point:
Why is it that the audience for modern art is quite happy to take in the ideological message of modernism while strolling through an art...
Onion News Network →
Here are some favorite videos: Immigration: The Human Cost Report: Many U.S. Parents Outsourcing Child Care Overseas Tired Of Traffic? A New DOT Report Urges Drivers: ‘Honk’
These are very short, usually about 2 minutes. But don’t skip the very end, with the always hilarious “Still Ahead”. My favorite: “DISEASE OUTBREAKS SWEEP ACROSS MIDWEST WHILE CDC TRAINS...
Leaflets: iPhone apps that grow on you. →
Very nice “apps inside iSafari” approach. They give you a pretty iPhone-like interface. Some apps are a bit too weak on features currently to be useful. But, surprisingly, the Search is already a favorite. Very nice integration with Dictionary.com, Wikipedia, IMDB, etc. Feeds looks good too (try turning to landscape to see more of the headlines), though I’m hoping Newsgator will...
LewRockwell.com Blog: TechCrunch on the Ron Paul... →
“…every election cycle candidate pages have added more and more centralized features, to the point where the campaign site for Barak Obama even has it’s own social network. Ron Paul throws all of that out the window; he preaches small government and empowering the individual, and his campaign site and strategy follows that exact lead.”
The Ron Paul Earthquake →
The unbelievable upwelling of grassroots support for Paul is rocking the very core of politics.
A Soldier Reflects
A marvelous letter in the July 16, 2007 American Conservative:
Regarding Kara Hopkins’s “Stupid Party” (June 18), I too have been thinking about the exchange between Rudy Giuliani and Ron Paul about 9/11. I have been a lifelong Republican and have been a supporter of the war, which I can back up with a Department of Defense DD Form 214 showing my service in Iraq. After...
Arianna Huffington Sees the Light
Chilling:
One of the definite changes in my thinking was born of the hard reality I confronted when I discovered how much easier it was raising money for the opera and fashionable museums than for at-risk children. So I came to recognize that the task of overcoming poverty will not be achieved without the raw power of government appropriations.
Harry Potter and the Death of Reading →
It happened on a dark night, somewhere in the middle of Book IV. For three years, I had dutifully read the “Harry Potter” series to my daughter, my voice growing raspy with the effort, page after page. But lately, whole paragraphs of “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” had started to slip by without my hearing a word. I’d snap back to attention and realize the...
Eating You Alive? Try Eco-Friendly Garden Plants... →
There are attractive garden plants that repel mosquitoes. Mosquitoes are horrible creatures that swarm around you and suck your blood. They cause itchy rashes and can carry disease. If you are interested in a more natural approach, consider these plants that will keep those pesky creatures far,far away!.
macosxhints.com - View any OS X file on an iPhone →
Save PDF to iPhoto
iPhone Buyers Have No Regrets..."Overwhelmingly... →
Early iPhone owners are overwhelmingly happy with their devices…In one of the first such studies, 90% of 200 owners said they were “extremely” or “very” satisfied with their phone. And 85% said they are “extremely” or “very” likely to recommend the device to others
9-17-2001, osama bin laden denies involvement in... →
“I would like to assure the world that I did not plan the recent attacks, which seems to have been planned by people for personal reasons,” bin Laden’s statement said. Since Tuesday’s terrorist attacks against the United States, Bush has repeatedly threatened to strike out against terrorism and any nation that supports or harbors its disciples.
Bush admits administration leaked CIA name →
WASHINGTON - President Bush on Thursday acknowledged publicly for the first time that someone in his administration likely leaked the name of a CIA operative, although he also said he hopes the controversy over his decision to spare prison for a former White House aide has “run its course.”
Old Testament figure named on 2600-year-old tablet →
The cuneiform inscription in a tablet dating from 595BC has been deciphered for the first time - revealing a reference to an official at the court of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, that proves the historical existence of a figure mentioned in the Book of Jeremiah.
Digg iPhone Beta Live! →
“Last weekend Joe Stump, Daniel Burka, and I sat down and white-boarded the Digg iPhone app. I told Joe if he coded it in 48hrs, I’d buy him an iPhone. Needless to say, he got it done (nice work, Joe).”
7 Days
I got the iPhone last Friday night. My wife thought it was crazy I was spending so much on a phone and expressed horror at the idea that I would spend $500 on a phone for her, (we got her one that comes free with the service contract).
7 days later (this morning) she was talking about how confusing her phone is… How she wishes she could just touch the screen to work it because that seems...
Ron Paul Tops McCain in Cash on Hand →
In an exclusive “This Week” interview, Paul says he has 2.4 million in the bank.
Van Rhijn Aerial Photography | Castles →
One of these days I’m going on a grand castle tour. These castles in Britain look pretty good, and my wife wants to visit Britain as well for other reasons, so maybe we can work something out. My favorite castle so far that I’ve actually visited is in Salzburg, Austria, though the one in Naples, Italy gets points for being such a classic, imposing edifice.
Is Intellectual Property the Key to Success? →
One of the greatest tragedies of intellectual property law is how it generates intellectual confusion among successful businesspeople. Many are under the impression, even when it is not true, that they owe their wealth to copyrights, trademarks, and patents and not necessarily to their business savvy.
Time for Another Revolution, by Frank Chodorov →
It all began, as you know, with the Declaration of Independence. But the biggest mistake the Founding Fathers of America made was to write of independence from one particular government, when what is needed is independence from government itself.
Miss Teen USA Seizes Crown, Declares Self Miss... →
“Opposition to my rule will be, like, totally crushed!”