May 2012
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Two biographies of Ayn Rand. - By Johann Hari -... →
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April 2012
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What The World's Smallest Office Says About... →
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August 2010
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My New HD
I just purchased and installed in my old macbook a new 500gb Seagate Solid State Hybrid Drive. It’s mostly a standard HDD but it also contains 4gb of solid state flash storage, which if I understand it correctly kind of acts like additional RAM. In addition to that it’s a 72000 RPM drive with 32mb of cache.
This drive has made a big improvement in my computers performance. Start-up...
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“Fossil Fuel Subsidies Are 12 Times Support for Renewables”
– Governments last year gave $43 billion to $46 billion in support of renewable energy compared to $557 billion spent to subsidize fossil fuels in 2008. In many cases I believe the public’s perception of subsidies is skewed like this. Though I had no idea subsidies skewed so far towards fossil...
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July 2010
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WatchGreat video outlining a brief history of modern social movements, and what will be necessary to convince people of the importance of climate change. In brief, they argue that we will need to create a “swarm” or open source movement creating an open and transparent database of climate change information.
Sounds like a start, but it is really troubling how much of America revels in its...
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The City in History
I have just started, or more specifically restarted, The City in History by Lewis Mumford. Written in 1961 the book is nearly 600 pages and chronicles the city from its Paleolithic origins to modern suburban culture. I’ve created a reading plan which will hopefully be slow enough to help me absorb and think about the material of the book, while hopefully not drawing it out too long so I...
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Retina Displays for ALL!
After a month of owning my iPhone I am beginning to hate any monitor that isn’t ultra high resolution. Where’s my ≥20 inch external monitor or macbook pro display? This should be the new standard, I don’t want to see pixels anymore.
iPhone 4: 326 ppi
Macbook (1280x800): 113 ppi
Dell ST2410 24” (1920x1080) Monitor: 92 ppi
Figure out your ppi here.
“It’s called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe...”
– George Carlin
WatchSpanish goalkeeper Iker Casillas being interviewed by his girlfriend Sara Carboreno immediately following the World Cup. This is my favorite post-game interview ever.
UPDATE: So Telecinco decided all this free publicity for their network was a bad thing and claimed copyright infringement on the 46 second clip. As a supplementary good, here’s a gif put together by Dando por culo.
UPDATE...
iPhone 4
I have to say, in spite of the antenna issues (which don’t effect me because I use a case) I really love this new iPhone. And yes, it is just a phone it doesn’t cure cancer, but it is the only phone I’ve ever owned that actually can create content worth creating.
This fourth of July I’ve played with the 720p videos and high quality photos and it makes me want to blog...
November 2008
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WatchPALIN: “One step away from stealing from the campaign.”
July 2008
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June 2008
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May 2008
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“Cheney traveled to Iraq by having the senior leadership of that country draw a...”
– NPR’s Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!, you can hear it at about 3:23 Not quite the soft political jokes you’d expect from some soft public radio lefties.
misunderstood, methinks.
brokengentleman: I feel like a lot of people really misunderstood what I was going for, so let me clarify. … i was trying to say that people should be judged based on their actions, not whether you think they deserve what they have, or whether they do what you would like them to do (or would do in their place) with their status. also, i cringe at anyone thinking i agree with Rand about...
I don’t think anything is good in absolutes. It’s not good to always hate people richer than you. It’s not good to hate in general. And I don’t think it’s good to assume that all people that show animosity towards people with more money hate them, or show animosity towards them for no good reason. The thing that frustrates me about “people with more money”...
alexbalk:Please don’t let me lose to that little bitch Gladwell. Don’t worry Balk. I voted for you as a Write-In.
April 2008
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The Atlasphere: Ayn Rand Dating & Networking →
toomuchawesome: bg5000: squashed: For the rationally self-interested romantic in you….Like the social network for pets, this will help keep these people away from us regular folk. Just like that dating site for people with herpes! Objectivism is philosophical herpes. I feel like there could be a dating site for people that despise Ayn Rand. I’m sure it would be filled with witty...
“But [America] goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy.”
– She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own. She will commend the general cause by the countenance of her voice, and the benignant sympathy of her example. She well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own,...
Watchpreoccupations: Stuff of Life What you have just witnessed is called waterboarding. The US authorities call it an ‘enhanced interrogation technique’. They say it is a necessary and acceptable ‘tool’ in the war on terror. They say it is ‘safe and lawful’. They say that by using it, they are not doing anything inhumane. Well you’ve just seen it for yourself. What do you think? At Amnesty...
“It ain’t me. It ain’t me. I ain’t no millionaire’s son, no.
It ain’t me. It...”
– I just realized while eating lunch with Billy Dalto that John Fogerty, a wealthy and famous rock star by the time this song was written, sounds partially absurd singing this lyric. I’ve heard the song thousands of times and had never paused to consider that he is probably one of the most fortunate...
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The Solution To Barack Obama's "Patriotism...
alexbalk: This is probably way too strident, but whatever, fuck this day. I love Alex Balk (in a purely Platonic way). His self-loathing while at Gawker charmed me and reflected my own feelings about how I enjoyed Gawker but felt dirty about said enjoyment, and when he started out at Radar I was quick to sign up for my subscription. Enjoy. (and go pick up your...
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Birds do it, and Bees do it, and good lord so do...
simko: In the past week, I’ve conned over a dozen people (including my mother) into watching this BBC video of (incredible) slug sex by claiming that Cirque du Soleil was opening an animal division. I’d feel slightly guilty were it not for the truly phenomenal ending… Enjoy.
“Federal employees used government credit cards to pay for lingerie, gambling,...”
– The Washington Post has an article about the abuses of Government issued credit cards meant for purchases under $2500 that don’t have to go out to bid. Why are these cards necessary? This is infuriating. It makes my Libertarian Vein throb.
March 2008
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WatchIn the year two-THOUUUUsanndd….
“Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense.”
– Mark Twain
Finally
I finally replaced my stolen macbook pro, and am in the middle of insuring my new laptop. I am hoping to start posting again a bit more frequently now, and I’m hoping that going back to Grad School for Urban Planning will give me more time and reason to post here, and at my other tumblr (theurbanist.tumblr.com). (Let’s hope the Scientologists don’t come back)
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biteofpythias: I often look at the unfollow button on jakob lodwick’s page, but just can’t pull the trigger. I feel like a tumbling jack twist… I go through the same thought process everytime he posts something vain or pseudo-philosophical. But then I think that all blogs are at least partly ego driven (not to mention, I choose to read it) and it can be beneficial to be forced to remember why I...
February 2008
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“I view that as a significant victory. I view it as part of the victory on the...”
– - Dubya talking about the recent elections in Pakistan in which President Musharraf’s party suffered serious losses. Well I guess it takes one ideologue guilty of intimidating voters to know another one. via: abc News
