NR’s 50th Anniversary: Whittaker Chambers on Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged on National Review Online Ayn Rand is, well, whatever you think of her, she’s rich. Which is pretty much what she set out to be. She’s rich in that Scientology kind of way, with an “institute” and a pseudo-philosophy. She’s also celebrating 50 years of […]
Clean up! Ryan’s keyboard. “20.1-inch 16:10 widescreen LCD display has a 1680×1050 WSXGA+ resolution, 4 USB 2.0 ports, a thin bezel, a 600:1 contrast ratio, 12ms response time (great for gaming), picture in picture capability, DVI, S-Video, and composite inputs, and an optional speaker sound bar […] pick one up for around $600 with Dell […]
Is it really that hard for US Rep John Conyers (D-MI) to produce a document to account for distributing turkeys? A letter stating “we’re giving you a boat-load of turkey. Happy Holidays!” or a news story puff-piece when his office passed them out? What’s the hold up? The director of a Detroit food bank wants […]
I’ve added a new category, “Rants”, to which yesterday’s screed has been reassigned. Filing all of that stuff under Politics was becoming silly.
Looks like you can get a decent landscape renderer from Computer Arts for free; Bryce 4 (the previous version) is on the CD that comes with the magazine. I’ve purchased this from Barnes & Noble before (in-store). Computer Arts website also has a great download section with lots of tools.
I’m starting a new movement. Actually, it’s quite a big movement already, it just hasn’t caught the attention of the important people in the world; you know them, they go by “progressive”, “liberated”, or “Blue stater”. They’re a huge group of people who are engaged in a grass-roots campaign to split this country right down […]
I totally flubbed this one and now it’s all over the ‘net, but the Mars rover Spirit is one-year old today. Originally slated for a 2-month mission, it’s so exceeded it’s expected performance it’s actually starting to overcome some of the bad press NASA has had in the past few years. JPL has a really […]
Project Gutenberg, the site with thousands of free books available for download, has posted their top 100 of 2004. It’s amazing to look at the great stuff availble for free thanks to the contributions of thousands of people all over the world. I need to get my Franz Kafka formatted and/or printed. Link [via J-Walk]
This is what you find when you type “I’m bored” into Google. I-am-bored.com.
Ok, someone is even more obsessed than I thought possible and has set down the entire script of the Flying Circus episodes from Monty Python. Check out the homepage for even more weird resources. Very cool. Link