Monthly Archives: October 2008

how about them links, eh?

I laughed aloud. Stefan Molyneux on voting No one could have predicted the housing bubble pop, right?

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a futile protest

Charlie Stross, interviewed in H+ magazine, mentions in passing . . . the more socially dysfunctional libertarians (who are convinced that if the brakes on capitalism were off, they’d somehow be teleported to the apex of the food chain in place of … Continue reading

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because you asked for it, or because you didn’t

retro MacOS theme for WordPress. I’m pretty sure this is before it was called MacOS, that’s how old it is. (Hat tip to Bill Detty.)

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Takana go goth

See Takana. The 306 figures shown there can be reduced to 45 by rotation and reflection. I fitted a polynomial curve to each partial path, and superimposed them.

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it’s a post, ain’t it?

a very clever picture — clean, but be warned, much of that site is NSFW. Bon mot from Sheldon Richman: Advocates of the free market are sometimes parodied for their seemingly all-purpose answer to any problem: Let the market handle … Continue reading

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