While few will notice the difference (or care), I converted my homepage from .Net to PHP for the heck of it today, thanks to the ASP2PHP converter. Sadly, I don’t know how to port my XML quote app to php yet, so it’s running from my MySQL database for now.
Sorry, Bill, .Net just wouldn’t [...]
Check this out: Family of electrocuted thief gets $75,000
I have no pity for the crook, but might there be an argument that the booby trap posed a danger to police, firefighters, etc? I think not—the clearly posted signs warned them, and if that means that they have to let the place burn down, its [...]
Story 1: If antiwar protesters succeed
Story 2:
In Brooklyn, N.Y., Ron Dixon and his family were jolted awake by a noise early one morning.
There was a stranger in the house. When Dixon saw the intruder enter his young son’s room, he grabbed his 9 mm pistol, and said to the man, “What are [...]Check out the (very brief) book review of Atlas Shrugged I wrote for my OAC class.
Check out the shirts I designed for the Objectivist Club.
Sample:
I got criticized by several people for being “insensitive,” “offensive” and “negative” with my design. I replied “Please explain what you find offensive about the phrase “irrationality will not be tolerated” and what kind of people you think will be offended by that.”
Comments?
Ever notice how the media never mentions what groups are behind the protests? They make it seem like the protesters spontaneously come together in a collective orgy of anti-war sentiment, but as this WSJ editorial points out(subscription required, see one of the peacnik sites for their own list of backers), the case is far [...]
...and force us to march in the streets to support Saddam’s regime!
PEACE! ...let the doves fly!
and finally,
what the protesters are REALLY about.
Check out this photo of this weekend’s protest in Houston, from the Houston Chronicle. See the token black guy in the center? (Why else do you think the paper choose a photo of him?) That’s none other than Rob, longtime associate of Laurel and I and perhaps the most clueless philosophy major I know. [...]
Check out the photojournal of my day at A&M!
Update: here are some more photos that I didn’t get in yesterdat.
A few days ago, I was feeling argumentative so I sent off a scorching rant to an editorial by “Brother Kelly Boggs” a Creationist pastor (see letter a few blogs below.) I didn’t really do it for their sake, and didn’t expect a reply, but lo and behold, not only did “Brother Kelly” send [...]
Someone stole my bike. They didn’t just steal it, they snatched it between 6 and 8pm from outside my apartment, with me at home, the windows wide open, and my computer playing music. It was a really nice new and expensive bike too, that I had just been getting used to enjoying. [...]
On a more positive note, Sea lions are being used to guard U.S. ships in Gulf. I think it’s kinda cool: “the animals were trained to mark people but not to kill. The mammals can dive to 1,000 feet, swim at speeds up to 25 miles per hour, as well as see and hear [...]
MSNBC reports that much of North Korea’s income comes from slave labor camps whose products are “filtered” through China and often ends up at U.S. markets. (I wonder if most libertarians support that as “free trade”?) North Korea has basically become one big slave labor camp—one which many people are deperately trying to [...]
Regular readers of my blogger will know what I think of the groups that send aid to North Korea: they are guiltier of causing mass starvation and supporting genocidal regime than Kim Jong Il himself. If it were up to me, I would have those “humanitarians” sent to die in the labor camps with [...]
(This is in reply to Circumstantial evidence.)
Greetings,
Far be it from me to attack an argument for a war with Iraq, but your piece did not use the terms “theory,” “evidence,” and most importantly, “belief” properly. The proper approach to determining facts, whether it is the theory of evolution or Saddam’s possession of WMD’s is [...]
Check out these Satellite photos of North Korean prison camps.
Then read this: Death, terror in N. Korea gulag.
This is interesting:
“State computer with confidential medical data put up for sale.
A state computer put up for sale as surplus contained confidential files naming thousands of people with AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, the state auditor said Thursday.”
I’ve been trying to buy up some old hardware from Texas A&M’s surplus auctions myself. [...]
Here is a quote from an email I sent out on the Brazos Valley Web Design listserv regarding Microsoft’s lack of compliance with the W3C standards:
I think that it’s helpful to realize that Microsoft’s browser is in effect a de-facto standard, which by overwhelming user preference is preferred over the W3C-compliant Mozilla. If [...]
Check out this blog from initium:
In 1977, Congress passed the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act, a law intended to make life easier for FTC and Antitrust Division officials in deciding which mergers to prosecute and stop. Under HSR, all mergers worth at least a certain value (approximately $50 million under the current law) must be reported to the [...]
If you’re a carefull reader, you’ve noticed that thanks to my genius both Laurel’s and my blogs now have comments. I couldn’t figure out how to run code in dynamically-generated text, but I randomly came across a tutorial on Using JavaScript Includes to Manage Content and did just that!
We must think of human progress, not as of something going on in the race in general, but as something going on in a small minority, perpetually beleaguered in a few walled towns. Now and then the horde of barbarians outside breaks through, and we have an armed effort to halt the process. That is, we have a Reformation, a French Revolution, a war for democracy, a Great Awakening. The minority is decimated and driven to cover. But a few survive- and a few are enough to carry on.-- H.L. Mencken
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