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After many months
The redesign of Deeyah.com is finally posted. Check out the cool skin/appearance changing feature at the top right of the home page.
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Interesting reading while uploading
A very interesting post from Austin Bay on US-French anti-terror collaboration. HT Instapundit
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Links
Rounder, Sun Expose Archives Digitally
Add Google Maps’ Directions to Your Site
And this thought from Will Wilkinson
My hunch is that these folks aren’t really utilitarians after all. They have a prior intuition about the injustice of inequality, and the justice of progressive redistribution. Then, they attempt to undermine resistance to higher tax rates on the wealthy by pointing to research that they interpret to say that this won’t make the wealthy any less happy, and so, Why worry? The trouble is, it won’t make the poor (in a country like the US where the poor are already rich) much happier either, and won’t do anything to change relative position in the distribution. So what’s the point? The point is more progressive redistribution, to which many folks are committed to prior to and independent of utilitarianism or their interest in happiness.
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The employee of the month
Man Delivers Pizza After Being Shot in Leg
Thomas Stefanelli, 37, said dedication to his job at Hungry Howie’s Pizza kept him on the job after a struggle with a robber Saturday night left him bleeding from a bullet wound in his left thigh.
Stefanelli arrived at a home only to realize it was vacant, police said. The masked man approached Stefanelli, pointed a gun and demanded money. Stefanelli said he fought with the man, and two shots were fired. One hit Stefanelli, but he did not immediately notice.
The shooter eventually fled with a second man.
“They figured they were going to make an easy mark by robbing a pizza delivery person,” said police spokesman Joe Durkin.
Stefanelli finally noticed his wound. His cell phone wasn’t working, so he drove to his next delivery address, dropped off the pie and called his boss to ask him to call the police.
Stefanelli went on to make three more deliveries.
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Time to end the Libertarian Party
I just finished watching Jim Lazinski’s second appearance on the Daily Show. It is now clear that political Parties are simply NOT something libertarians do well. Throw in the recent Badnarik campaign and the matter is a metaphysical certainty.
What to replace it with? Why not a PAC? There are no signature requirements and much less regulation. Imagine what could be done if all of the money, time and effort spent on just keeping the Libertarian Party going actually was spent on rogue candidates of both parties and ballot initiatives? Something might actually happen.
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Visual Studio shortcuts
- CTRL + SHIFT + SPACE – Displays the methods and overload list of a method or class
- CTRL + J – Displays all of the members of an object.
From Mark Wagner
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More waiting while uploading thoughts
From the CNN article Rights group leader says U.S. has secret jails
“The U.S. is maintaining an archipelago of prisons around the world, many of them secret prisons, into which people are being literally disappeared, held in indefinite, incommunicado detention without access to lawyers or a judicial system or to their families,” Schulz said
No proof was offered on any of these secret prisons, though I would imagine they do exist.
What to draw from this?
- AI is fond of misusing the word “archipelago”, which they use to mean “network”, which is not accurate at all.
- Thanks to Campaign Finance Reform there is now a permanent agitation industry in MoveOn, Media Matters, and their ideological brethren like AU. If this is the best they can come up with things arent too bad I suppose.
- There is at least an attempt to deal with the whole problem humanely, especially since realistically the alternatives are field executions and rendition (personally I think that the problem will be “solved” by deporting all of them to Egypt or Pakistan where foreign governments will dispose of them quietly
David Friedman wrote an article some time back which can shed some light on the matter.
And not that much longer until the Patriot Act expires!
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For a third time
I pull another chicken bone out of my dog’s throat. I got it on the first bite this time. Who is leaving those things everywhere!?!?!
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While I’m waiting for files
The Baby Name Generator – a very nice java app that shows where names show up throughout history
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Quotes of the Day
“The limit of the possible is the actual.”
anonymous internet poster“There’s incredible diversity of religion in the mountains, why we have more than 40 different kinds of Baptist.”
from the PBS special, The Appalachians (review coming soon)