An urgent message
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Archive for the ‘Weirdness’ Category
New license
Sunday, March 27th, 2011This may not be something that jumps out at you immediately when you enter these fine pages, but I've changed the license to all the work shown here to the the very permissive Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike. The change comes after a conversation I had this weekend with Karl Fogel ...
D’Arcy Thompson Strikes Back
Thursday, February 11th, 2010Having 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, ...
A conversation with a libertarian
Thursday, December 3rd, 2009Got 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. ...
Another take on Rothbard
Wednesday, August 5th, 2009As 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 ...
