September 2007
31 posts
The Film Crew Online →
Some of the Mystery Science Theater 3000 crew are back at it!
Gulag: known mostly as a place for political... →
A roundup of resources on the Soviet Gulag.
iPhone Central: Mail me that map →
Mail yourself a link to directions you set up on Google Maps. Open the mail on iPhone, click the link… The directions open in the Google Maps app!
macosxhints.com - Fix an iCal 'application not... →
“I’ve been frustratingly living with iCal unresponsiveness for what seems like years. About two dozen times a day, some interaction with iCal (a click on any sort of control, element, or field) results in about a 20-sec. wait while iCal thinks about it.”
43Folders.com has been redesigned! →
Merlin Mann has relaunched his popular productivity and life hack website 43folders.com with a hot new design. I love the new typography, organisation and overall cleanliness.
LewRockwell.com Blog: How the State Created... →
“The whole culture collaborates in artificially extending childhood, primarily through the school system and restrictions on labor.”
Colbert: "Kids won't stand idly by. They'll go... →
‘I wish they’d stop tasering this guy so I could go home and watch this guy getting tasered on YouTube.’
Wikipedia: What Is It Good For? →
Teachers trash it and elites scorn it but everyone else adores Wikipedia. It’s better and more reliable than its reputation. And there’s a social philosophy behind the whole thing: Hayekianism.
LewRockwell.com Blog: Chávez Warns Private Schools... →
None Dare Call It Genocide by Llewellyn H.... →
…we live in an age of extreme multiculturalism and global concern. We adore international aid workers, go on mission trips abroad, weep for the plight of those suffering from hunger and disease, volunteer in efforts to bring plumbing to Ecuador, mosquito nets to Rwanda, clean water to Malawi, human rights to Togo,...
Microsoft Reveals Windows Vista SP1 Will Install... →
Redmond, WA – In response to customer demands Microsoft announced that instead of patching bugs and improving features of Windows Vista in the next service pack release
Laurellyn: She's laughing at me! She's laughing at me!
Me: She's not laughing at you. She's laughing with you.
Laurellyn: But I'm not laughing.
Stupid Monsters Someone was Paid to Make [pics] →
Celebrating 30 years of very stupid monsters.
The Rule of Law without the State →
“Were there such a category, Somalia would hold a place in Guinness World Records as the country with the longest absence of a functioning central government. When the Somalis dismantled their government in 1991 and returned to their precolonial political status, the expectation was that chaos would result — and that, of course, would be the politically correct thing to expect.”
Madeleine L’Engle, Children’s Writer, Is Dead →
Madeleine L’Engle, who in writing more than 60 books, including childhood fables, religious meditations and science fiction, weaved emotional tapestries transcending genre and generation, died Thursday in Connecticut. She was 88.
It Doesn't Matter Where You Go To College →
Another amazing essay from Paul Graham. In this one he draws from his experience funding tech startups which has led him to realize just how meaningless an “elite” college education is to entrepreneurship.
Practically everyone thinks that someone who went to MIT or Harvard or Stanford must be smart. Even people who hate you for it believe it.
But when you think about what it means to...
Instant Expert: Secrets & Features of iTunes 7.4 →
Great summary of new iTunes features.
Jonesin' for a Soda →
A fine example of how government works hand-in-hand with established corporate interests to skew markets and thwart entrepreneurs and consumers.
I’m Not Sure NBC Could Have Screwed This iTunes... →
There’s a lot of jackassery to pick apart in this short statement from NBC Universal executive vice president Cory Shields, responding to Apple’s “don’t let the door hit you on the way out, idiots” statement yesterday, but I’ll focus on this curious tidbit for now:
