Aug
25
Katrina and the Rising Tide
August 25, 2006 | Leave a Comment
Thousands still cling to their homes where the upper floors are yet dry, but thousands more have need to be removed in boats and established in great camps on the higher ground. Other thousands are camped upon broken levees. This is the pitiable plight of a lost battle.
27,000 square miles were inundated….An [...]
Aug
22
Mac’n it in a Windows World
August 22, 2006 | Leave a Comment
Back in 1986, when I traded up from my old Kaypro II, I made a decision that continues to affect me on a daily basis. When I fired up my first Macintosh computer I had no intention of making a social or political statement. In fact, I can’t even remember why I chose a [...]
Aug
22
Us vs. Them: The Politics of Direct Causation
August 22, 2006 | Leave a Comment
I often find myself asking why, if so much of what is happening in the political arena seems to go against some of my most basic human values, does it coincide with what seem to be other people’s most basic human values? Everyone I would expect to disagree with the current administration’s policies is [...]
Aug
9
Second-Hand Intellectuals
August 9, 2006 | Leave a Comment
Title: HAYEK, ‘THE INTELLECTUALS AND SOCIALISM’, AND WEIGHTED
SCALE-FREE NETWORKS.
Authors: Ormerod, Paul
Source: Economic Affairs; Mar2006, Vol. 26 Issue 1, p41-47, 7p
How do ideas spread across, or disappear in, a social network of individuals?
Paul Ormerod suggests that one important way that individuals form their opinions on individual topics “is by noting the opinion of others who the individual considers to [...]
Aug
2
1984 and Essentially Contested Concepts
August 2, 2006 | Leave a Comment
Today, we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives. We have created, for the first time in all history, a garden of pure ideology. Where each worker may bloom secure from the pests of contradictory and confusing truths. Our Unification of Thoughts is more powerful a weapon than any fleet or army [...]
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