Archive for the ‘Miscellaneous’ Category

End the wars

Saturday, March 20th, 2010

As a former US Navy sailor who served during the first war against Iraq, I just wanted to throw in my two cents worth on the anniversary of The Dumbest War Ever Fought by the US. The argumentation for US forces remaining in Iraq is really non-existent - the Iraqis ...

D’Arcy Thompson Strikes Back

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

Having ridiculed the  literal treatment of D'Arcy Thompson's esoteric ideas about form on several occasions (not to mention attempts to apply them directly in architecture), I was somewhat dumbstruck when I saw this: Our world may be a giant hologram - New Scientist Now if that ain't the ultimate epigenetic plane story, ...

Merry Christmas, y’all!

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009

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Videos by a young master

Thursday, December 10th, 2009

Just wanted to share  a few animations Eryk put together over the past few weeks: The last one he did all by himself, no help from me whatsoever outside uploading it to YouToob. Related posts:Young authors

A conversation with a libertarian

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

Got a little argument going with a feller called Brian Drake on the Mises Institute website. I thought it was good enough to share here: http://blog.mises.org/archives/011113.asp#c632492 The main thrust of the thing is that libertarians don't accept the concept of society, preferring to look at it as a collection of individual actions. ...