2009

Twitter Updates for Week Ending 2009-11-01

November 1, 2009 @ 11:00 pm

New link for blogpost “Stackpole, Doctorow, and Intellectual Property.” Sorry, have been tweaking plugins & permalinks. http://bit.ly/21w1Wb # New blogpost: New Website & Blog!: Attention all my readers and subscribers – assuming I still have any after not po… http://bit.ly/3o4rPj # is making tuna salad for a sandwich while catching up on Stargate Universe on [...]

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Belated Inauguration for My New Website & Blog

October 26, 2009 @ 4:24 pm

This is coming a bit late, since I’ve already made a few posts (automated and not), but welcome to my new website with an integrated and self-hosted blog. I’ve switched to using WordPress as my publishing platform as you can probably tell. I’m still in the process of transferring content over and updating the website. [...]

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Stackpole, Doctorow, and Intellectual Property

October 26, 2009 @ 12:11 pm

Cory Doctorow recently announced an experiment to prove that giving away free ebooks works. Michael Stackpole responded with a deconstruction of Cory’s experiment. He makes a number of good points about the experiment, though I think he comes off unnecessarily harsh on Cory personally. And one gets the impression that he feels threatened by the growing [...]

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Twitter Updates for Week Ending 2009-10-26

October 26, 2009 @ 12:00 am

Due to human error, fiddling with settings for the Twitter Tools plugin, this post actually contains my tweets for the past two weeks (in chronological order from oldest to most recent). @gragek @waggz This college tweeple aggregating site might be of interest: http://globalquad.com/ | Linked to other cool aggregaters too. # C4SS: An IgNobel History [...]

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-10-13

October 13, 2009 @ 12:00 am

RT @nprnews FTC Says Bloggers Must Disclose Paid Endorsements http://su.pr/1rgmv6 | The corporatist nanny state strikes again. # @noor91 Homework sucks. Glad I’m done for good. But now I have to GRADE homework. in reply to noor91 # RT @bradspangler Over & over again, it’s the same story. The establishment can’t diagnose the problem b/c [...]

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Oughtism and Its Cure

May 29, 2009 @ 2:06 pm

I decided to rename my blog “Is-Ought GAP: The Cure for Oughtism,” simultaneously turning separate eristic jokes by Stephan Kinsella and another libertarian on their heads.1 The following are some excerpts from two sections of one chapter of Veatch’s For an Ontology of Morals: A Critique of Contemporary Ethical Theory. Veatch calls the mentality he [...]

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The US Post Office has got to go

May 1, 2009 @ 3:42 pm

I got a package in today. For the second time in two weeks, the third time since we’ve lived in Nebraska, and the fourth time I can remember while living in an apartment, the postman did not even bother making a first attempt at delivering the package to my door. I managed to get to [...]

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