After catching this TLF post about the Seasteading Institute, a group behind a new more practical approach to Waterworld than many of the previous micronation landgrabs, I can’t help but think there’s finally something to this.
While their platform of choice, at least to start, seems to be a spar, a brief passage about using cargo […]
Brilliant punditry, slashdot-style…
“There is not a bit of evidence that Al Qaeda or any of the Islamic terrorist groups are trying to undermine America by eroding our civil liberties.”
Actually yes, there is.
As your post correctly says, it would be ridiculous to suggest they directly care about or are motivated by any issue of our civil […]
The conservatives back-peddling from any association with Bush’s record are hysterical, but they still lean on Reagan as their idealogical stalwart. Why?
A Reagan reprimand, as seen on Slashdot:
“What I’m attempting to highlight is the idea that the Republican party would “naturally” tend toward this behaviour. 30 years ago? No, more like 20 AT THE MOST. […]
I find it interesting, and refreshing, that an open dialog about race has finally been elevated to the forefront of the national consciousness — even if part of that conversation is HRC openly flaunting racial divides. Megan McArdle has a thoughtful piece peaking into a few of the more uncomfortable corners of race and identity […]
Jon Phillips has a great idea:
For anyone trying to offset your carbon footprint: Get a shovel, dig a hole, and bury yourself. I’ll take volunteers to do this first and I will document the whole process from start to near finish.
Plus, as noted by South Park, it has the added bonus of keeping you from […]
I’ve never been the paranoid conspiracy type, but Brad Templeton asks a question that has me scratching my head…and looking for tinfoil. Are botnets run by spy agencies? Consider…
Of all the spy agencies in the world, can it be that none of them have thought of this? That none of them are tempted by being […]
Oh, the train wreck that has become of the OLPC project. Here’s a great insider essay that sheds some light on the internal conflicts. Nobody’s coming out of this clusterfuck smelling like roses! Particularly choice…
Stallman similarly called a Windows port of Sugar “not a good thing to do”. Here’s the thing: such a port is […]
School choice. If that means choice for everyone…
They concluded that the decisive resistance to vouchers had come from suburban voters who feared that the programs would take money away from local schools and worried about the arrival of lower-income and minority students in their children’s classrooms.
Or as Tim Lee puts it…
To put this a little […]
Picking up on the Expelled Exposed meme…
According to Seth Finkelstein, I’m not a Googleterrorist:
I’d say this isn’t a “Google-bomb”, since the target site wants the high ranking itself. And Google’s algorithmic changes to defuse the bombs aren’t applicable here, since the words appear extensively on the site.
Before this whole Expelled thing gains too much momentum, some honest light ought to be shed on the Intelligent Design movement. Their tactics are tawdry, asking real scientists to prove a negative, so there is certainly some bad blood between the two groups.
That said, nobody’s saying there’s no place in any classroom for Intelligent Design…
The […]
I honestly thought Expelled was a parody when I first saw the trailers. Is this the trailer for Stein’s next flick?
Frankly, it’s hard to tell what’s parody these days…
And hell, Ben Stein’s charisma is just what the abstinence movement needs.
[via HnR]
DMX on the future of democracy…
Wow, Barack! The nigga’s name is Barack. Barack? Nigga named Barack Obama. What the fuck, man?! Is he serious? That ain’t his fuckin’ name. Ima tell this nigga when I see him, “Stop that bullshit. Stop that bullshit” [laughs] “That ain’t your fuckin’ name.” Your momma ain’t name you no […]
Couldn’t be.
Holy shit. In case you were thinking traffic cameras aren’t just a money grab and really do make us safer — here’s your clue.
In case you’re wondering how a bribe goes down today, here’s a interesting example…
I want to tell you Slashdot people something about how this kind of thing works. I don’t really know the name for it, but I call it “soft bribery”. You might also call it “economic alignment” or whatever. Here’s what happens.
A large, […]
Brian Moore over at Angry Blog lays down a textbook debunking of Noah Millman’s familiar argument against legalizing “sin idustries”:
The trick Noah is pulling here is assuming that “sin industries” themselves are bad, and have victims that suffer. He lumps together the abuse and the industry — which is like saying that convenient stores are […]
A few days back I received what I think is the first chain email that was actually worth reading — a little ditty about the little Fucking town in Austria. At first I thought it was Bullshit, but Google confirms…
I Google’d for Bullshit too, but no dice. Hell, I thought it was cool when I […]
Larry David on the “Sybillish personalities” Clinton’s broken out on the campaign trail.
I don’t want her talking to Putin, I don’t want her talking to Kim Jong Il, I don’t want her talking to my nephew. She needs a long rest. She needs to put on a sarong and some sun block and get away […]
Scientologists, take heed:
Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man really wants to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion. - L. Ron Hubbard
Touching sentiments from xkcd…
I want someone who can lead the country. When people grow cynical and detached from government, or blinded by partisanship, evil runs amok. Obama represents an honest shot at making our government something we can be proud of. I’m tired of throwing things at CNN. I’m tired of feeling depressed when I […]
If three graphic designers can recreate d-day for practically free…
Hollywood, you’re proper fucked!
I’m going strait to the front of the screening line.
This Koffler piece on Obama’s policies is a must read. Spoiler:
In other words and in short, Obama’s slogan, “stand for change”, is not a vacuous message of uplift, but a content-laden token of dissent from the old-style liberal orthodoxy on which Clinton and Edwards have been campaigning. At the same time, Obama is not offering […]
As often as I rail against intellectual property, it’s stories like this that serve to demonstrate the necessity of copyright in certain circumstances. What a trainwreck — and yet, even in this seemingly Pentopticonian age of IP enforcement, this poor girl has little recourse. These laws aren’t made for people…and that’s the real crime!
The 9th Circuit just dropkicked probationary bans on boozing…with flair:
Moderate consumption of alcohol does not rise to the dignity of our sacred liberties, such as freedom of speech, but the freedom to drink a beer while sitting in a recliner and watching a football game is nevertheless a liberty people have, and it is probably […]