Archive for the ‘Personal’ Category
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
Eryk and Maia have turned in their Young Authors competition entries in school. I am particularly impressed with Eryk's style of writing. Not bad for a 10-year-old. Here are the "books":
Eryk's:
Maia's:
Related posts:Videos by a young master
Oil, oil, everywhere, and not a drop to drink
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Wednesday, August 5th, 2009
As I read over my arguments against Murray Rothbard’s “For a New Liberty”, I started feeling uneasy about the rambling, unfocused writing. So here is a shorter and hopefully somewhat clearer explanation of what I meant:
First, something that may not have been really clear in the original post: I’m all ...
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Tuesday, August 4th, 2009
Note: For those of you with a low tolerance for long-winded arguments and poor off-the cuff writing, I’ve summarized this post here: http://cygielski.com/blog/2009/08/05/another-take-on-rothbard/. Please read that instead. I'm keeping this post only for the sake of chronological accuracy.
At the recommendation of my friend Steve I've been reading Murray Rothbard's "For ...
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Sunday, June 7th, 2009
Aerial photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand's view of the Earth and how it is changing. Make sure you watch this visually stunning video in HD if your equipment will let you:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqxENMKaeCU
also available as a copyright-free torrent:
http://www.mininova.org/tor/2657160
Related posts:Videos by a young master
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Thursday, June 4th, 2009
One of my favorite architectural blogs brings us news of serious concern over human rights abuses in Abu Dhabi, involving some of the world's leading "starchitects":
http://lebbeuswoods.wordpress.com/2009/05/31/darkening-dubai/
This only adds to my qualms about the whole idea of stardom in architecture - not only is crap often purveyed as art under the ...
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