Radley Balko suggests using people's reaction to seat belt laws as a litmus test for libertarian collaboration with liberals. What would be the equivalent litmus test for collaborating with conservatives?
Tumbly goodness, page
17 
Kottke
says a tumblelog is a quick and dirty stream
of consciousness… with more than just links.
Anarchaia was the first, but there are many copies. And they
have a plan.
-
-
Most of the Net Neutrality debate has struck me as really stupid. Wes Felter said it best:
Network Neutrality has collapsed into a black hole of strawmen and abstractions. It's not unusual to see such tactics, but when virtually all of the commentators on both (all?) sides are using them, you know the conversation is over.
Here's a pretty good summary of the libertarian position, as I see it:
In a competitive market, I would buy the telco and cableco arguments. [But] their sector is very strongly regulated. There is little competition outside of their comfy duopoly. Thus, if they're given the chance to sell high speed to some people, and low speed to others, what will really happen is that no extra bandwidth will be offered. Instead everyone will get the low speed unless they pay. This is the equivalent of "Nice website ya got there. You wouldn't want anything bad to happen to it, would ya?"
— Russ Nelson, the Angry Economist.
-
- Bill Simmons' great column on yesterday's Mets @ Dodgers game (W: D. Lowe, L: Pedro, HR: Nomar)
- "It amazes me that more businesses don’t realize how much conventional leadership and management styles are holding them back. They’re like someone in a car with their left foot on the brake and their right foot pressing the gas pedal."
- "Catering to the passionate is exactly what you should do."
-
- Mark Fletcher's leaving Bloglines.
- "Many murders and robberies are committed each year. No one says 'let us first enforce the law' before proceeding with, say, tax reform and other beneficial improvements."
- (tags: XMLHttpRequest standards)
-
- Excerpts and commentary on Steven Weber's book.
-
- TeX math to MathML converter. Includes markdown and textile plugins.
- Completing the trilogy.(tags: javascript web)
-
- Several amazingly awesome bits of Red Sox merchandise, all at once.
- Making artificial coral reefs out of aircraft carriers for fun and profit.
- "CaminoKnight automatically updates Camino to the latest nightly version. No user intervention is required, everything is fully automated."
- IBM M-DEL Lexmark M-DEL Unicomp keyboards
- "I think the dichotomy of a 'digital life' being somehow different from our 'real life' is becoming more false every day."
- Let's see if we can get a San Diego coworking space going!
- Yahoo Sports has made two baseball rosters: one team of the most overpaid, and one team of the most underpaid. Interesting list.(tags: baseball)
- Manuscript of a book by Dartmouth's Meir Kohn
-
- "Something sunk in a couple of weekends as I attended DCamp. I am without a professional tribe[…] I'm just not really grooving with the crowds I'm part of."
- (tags: management career)
- (tags: management career)
- "The tax was first enacted in 1898 as a temporary measure designed to "soak the rich". Along the way it has managed to soak the middle-class, the poor, the indigent, and the homeless."
-
Woz's thoughts on being a great engineer, from the upcoming iWoz (via Guy Kawasaki):
- Don’t waver.
- See things in gray-scale.
- Work alone.
- Trust your instincts.
-
Since feed consumers can read just about every feed format, and feed producers are beginning to realize that they should generate just one feed, the standard feed icon doesn't need to have any text explaining which format the relevant feed is. Khoi Vinh doesn't seem to understand that this is a feature, not a bug. Fortunately, the people commenting on his post (the first three, anyway) are making this pretty clear.
-
reddit's added the ability to report whole domains as spam. I'm using this to punish uber-linkjackers like mesoanarchy (c2ore.com), zanek (emailbattles.com), and Humorwriter (writingup.com).
-
Lately I've noticed Camino getting all beach ball of death on me, whenever I'm reading S5 slides. This is extremely irritating. Both Safari and Firefox handle such presentations just fine.
While I'm on the subject of Camino, its lack of Emacs-style (C-a and the like) key bindings in
inputandtextareais driving me crazy. Again, both Safari and Firefox get this right. -
- Yet another great rant from Steve Yegge.
- "I think it’s time we all agreed that the “nofollow” tag has been a complete failure."
-
- Music video set to M.C. Hammer's "U Can't Touch This."
- Nothing is more tasteless, when set against the reality of death, than the hollow note of demagogy and false sentiment.(tags: war)
- 553 years ago, Constantinople fell to the Ottomans.
-
- The traditional 7 layers, plus two on top.
-
- Shirts based on ones seen in movies etc.
-
- "Between fear and political correctness, it's not possible to say anything other than sugary nonsense about Islam."
- (tags: boston architecture)
- (tags: 37signals)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27