Science and Technology

How to Mirror a Censored WordPress Blog

June 17, 2010 @ 8:51 pm

A couple of days ago David mentioned on The Libertarian Standard that the Mises Institute providing its entire online media and literature library as a set of free torrents can be seen as part of a distributed or grassroots intellectual guerrilla resistance against the state. This is just one aspect of the Mises Institute’s effort [...]

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The New Apple iMissile

September 18, 2008 @ 12:17 am

In recent news, Apple has joined the military-industrial complex. Get ready to say hello to the new iMissile. No offense, fanboys and girls. It’s my first LOLcat. Like it? (I added just the Apple logo and the text, someone else had already put the cat in.)

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Dr. Bob Carter on Climate Change

May 28, 2008 @ 9:59 pm
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Consumer Reports, Hookahs, and Legal Positivism

February 28, 2008 @ 2:23 pm

Consumer Reports reports that hookahs are not as healthy as many people seem to think. I’m not surprised. What I find interesting and disturbing is the view about law and the state that is expressed by the CR employee’s kid Daniel at the end of the article. What is this guy teaching his kid, huh? [...]

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How Easy It Is To Commit Electronic Voting Fraud

February 18, 2008 @ 4:47 pm
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Online Ad Business Model Takes a Hit

February 12, 2008 @ 6:23 pm

If you’ve ever wondered whether online ads as a primary source of revenue is a viable business model and/or about who really clicks on those annoying ads anyway, check out this item on Slashdot: “6% of Web Users Generate 50% of Ad Clicks.” And that 6% is not representative of the general population. The linked [...]

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Arthur C. Clarke must never have read Mises and Rothbard…

January 15, 2008 @ 9:20 pm

[Updated version at Prometheus Unbound and The Libertarian Standard.] …because according to this quote cited by Gregory Benford in his happy-birthday letter in Locus Magazine (January 2008), he claims that “there are some general laws governing scientific extrapolation, as there are not (pace Marx) in the case of politics and economics.” Well, far be it [...]

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Science Future or Science Fiction?

September 27, 2007 @ 1:54 pm

David Veksler has some interesting predictions about our scientific, technological, and cultural future. Check them out.

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