Last night, President Bush had nothing to offer the American people but fear and admonition. Anyone who didn’t support his bail out of wall street with more borrowed US debt was against the American people…at least in his view. As Bush pointed out, yesterday the stock market dropped 700+ points, the largest single day point…
Month: September 2008
If Dollars Were Votes.
The BBC is watching the money our candidates are raising. By this date, Barack Obama had out raised John McCan by a wide margin: $468,841,840 to $224,841.840. If those dollars had been votes, the Obama would have won by a landslide. It is easy to dimiss the cash as from rich interest groups, but the…
Bailout? No Thanks!
The White House says we need to act now, or else the economy will melt down. You mean like we had to act against iraq right now, or a smoking gun will come in the form of a mushroom cloud? Maybe they don’t tell the story of the boy who cried wolf in Texas; or…
The Real Differences Between Liberals and Conservatives
Jonathan Haidt, a professor from Univefrsity of Virginia, gave a great 18 min talk explaining the drivers behind liberalism and conservativism. He really hits it from more of a biological/evolutionary terms. He identifies 5 drivers behind human morality: Prevention of Harm Fairness Respecting Authority Ingroup Loyalty Purity The basic premise isn’t that liberals are more…
Greetings from the future!
Everyone know that hackers love things from the future, what most people don’t know is that we have already discovered time travel. To go to the future, you go to Japan. To go to the past, well, you go to the south. To see Russia, you go to Alaska. Imagine my joy when Famima opened…
Techno Lust
Inspiron Mini 9 Studio Hybrid In the last couple of weeks, I have noticed that Dell has gotten all sorts of cute. Their Inspiron Mini and Studio Hybrid made me actually look at PCs again. For the last couple of years, any PC I bought was a featureless tower bought on sale and destined to…
America FAIL?
Vs? Today The Guardian posted an editorial that pretty much summed up my fears. We used to pick leaders we saw as educated and wise. We used to prize expertise and thoughtfulness. We were a nation that lead the world in science, business, art, and culture. We looked for leaders who could hold their own…
iPhone App Away!
I have been out of sight and out of mind for a while, more about all of this later. But needless to say I have been keeping busy while I wait for a work-related metldown. (See: Xdrive). My first iPhone App went live earlier today. It was tricky, but not long process. The most difficult…
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