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• Why Don’t We Ask Why?

  November 17, 2008 in philosophy, politics, video

  David Simon is a former journalist who quit his job because he could no longer do it the way he wanted to do it: the companies that run papers these …

• Schiff Calls It Right

  November 14, 2008 in economics

  Peter Schiff gets it right in 2006/07 about the US economy, and gets howled off the stage by the other “experts.” What’s funny is how sensible his arguments are (there is no real wealth in …

• In Flanders Fields

  November 11, 2008 in audio

  In Flanders Fields, by John McCrae. Read by Gord, Kristen, Kara, Mike, Randomdad, Mark, and me, for LibriVox. I believe it was our first “weekly poem,” and was Mike’s idea. These were …

• Information Society, Circa 1981

  November 11, 2008 in books, technology, web

  I think this guy was on to something, when he wrote this in 1980: In the information society (1) information, the axis of socio-economic development, will be produced by the information utility … a computer-based public …

• Let Us Consult the Web Before We Reach Our Verdict!

  November 10, 2008 in web

  Young jurors want to check this stuff out on the web, not listen to a bunch of people yammer on, says the Telegraph: In a speech, Lord Judge of Draycote, the Lord Chief Justice, said …