Digg in deeper
As I wrote in "Rage against the machine", I hate the way passwords currently work. "Password Protection? Forget It" continues about the same topic. "Security feature in Microsoft's new Windows could drive users nuts" showcases a feature in the upcoming Windows Vista that anybody should be able to see is totally stupid.
The post "8 stupid frat-boy business ideas" at "I Will Teach You To Be Rich" made me smile. Quite a few of these doomed-to-fail business ideas seem to have the fundamental core problem that they can't possibly attract any new users until they already have lots of users. Although I would also like to point out that swap stores for used textbooks can work when the student union organizes them, but clearly they will not form a basis for a profitable enterprise.
T-shirts are another stupid business idea listed in the same post. However, I solemnly hope that whoever ran the now long gone Rhubarb Offensive T-shirts online store years ago made good money with it... oh no, my mistake, at least the webpage is still up, although the available selection of slogans and images seems slimmer than it used to be! This company kept me well supplied for clothing that I often wore while giving mass lectures in CS courses. Some of their shirts I could not really wear in public without severe repercussions, but at least I could use them at the Go boardgame club events. For example, the shirt that said "I Like Being White". And it's true: I preferred taking white in non-handicap games, since for compensation for being the second to move I got the extra points of komi that could not be taken away, whereas in kyu games, the tempo advantage of the first move that black gets to make is passed around back and forth many times during the game.
"Fast Food Nation" was an okay book by Eric Schlosser. Now they have turned it into a movie, and the trailer can be viewed at YouTube. What's next, a movie adaptation of Freakonomics, perhaps in the spirit of the TV show "Numb3rs"? We all use economics every day!
The news article "Manning Jr., Drew charged with assault after fight" takes us to an incident that probably felt like a movie to many of the participants at the time, but didn't end up like it usually would have in movies.
Unlike the coal and other petroleum industries, nuclear industry doesn't spread its wastes to atmosphere for decent people to breathe, but will bury it. "This Place is Not a Place of Honor" discusses problems in dissuading future people from digging into the storage. Speaking of storing of smelly old things underground, the page "My Arcade" once again shows that some people really do have too much free time and money.
Timothy Sandefur's post "The Left’s Participation in Atrocity" and the article "The Third Wave Feminist Mystique" that it links to certainly make you think. In "Ephebophilia and Evolving Morality", a fellow poster of the group blog touches the recent John Derbyshire debacle.
The article "Thank you, my foolish friends in the West" addresses the useful idiots in the West, who are always ready to toady the next Third World dictator who they hope will be ruthless enough to destroy the Western civilization and individual liberties.
One of the most vexing things for artists and intellectuals who live under the compulsion to applaud dictators is the spectacle of colleagues from more open societies applauding of their own free will. It adds a peculiarly nasty insult to injury.
I am so old that I can remember a time "racism "meant that you treated races in an unequal manner. These days, of course, "racism" is when you treat all races equally, expecting the same from all of them. Glaivester explains the next step in his post "What "Racist" Means to a Leftist". Funny, by the way, that I had never seen Jill Stanek mentioned anywhere until I linked to her in my recent tabu search, and Feministe immediately followed up with "The pro-aborts are right". OK, fess up, who in that joint reads Sixteen Volts? Meanwhile, we can take a look at the post "Feminists Finding Love" that discusses the severe shortage of good profeminist men for feminists to pair up with. After all, for most people pairing up with a good member of the opposite sex is a pretty important need in Maslow's famous hierarchy, once the basic needs of food, drink and shelter have been taken care of, and not every feminist is able to overcome the revulsion and become a lesbian.
[Jason Kuznicki of Positive Liberty here.]
A minor quibble: The blog I write for is a group effort, including Tim Sandefur (who wrote the post "The Left's Participation in Atrocity"), Ed Brayton, me, and Jonathan Rowe (who wrote the post on ephebophilia).
Otherwise, thanks for the links!
Posted by Anonymous | 7:11 PM
Your link to the post by Glaivester "what "Racist" means to a Leftist" links to the comment section on that post, not to the post itself.
BTW, I don't think that there is a shortage of pro-feminist men for feminists, at least those who are young and reasonably attractive, but that feminists reject them instead wanting to change some Alpha Male into a feminist (which fails for understandable reasons). Altough, that would be explained in the "Good" part. Or perhaps in the problem of definition of feminist (I suspect that the demand is for woman-firstism, that modern feminism often is).
I wonder whatever happened to the "You aren't entitled to love/sex!" that the normally very socialist feminists eagerly throw to men who aren't superduper happy about being single (or who dare to suggest that women are just as, or more, superficial than men about choosing their partners either for sex or something more serious).
Of course, I don't think either men or feminists are entitled to these, but I'm not a socialist.
Otherwise, some good links.
Posted by Tuomas | 7:48 PM
"What's next, a movie adaptation of Freakonomics, perhaps in the spirit of the TV show "Numb3rs"? We all use economics every day!"
The writer-director of "Syriana" has signed a deal with Malcolm Gladwell to make "Blink" into a feature film, with Leonardo DiCaprio slated to play Gladwell.
I'm not kidding:
http://isteve.blogspot.com/2005/11/congratulations-malcolm-just-remember.html
Posted by Steve Sailer | 3:15 AM
Jason Kuznicki: sorry about that, my mistake.
Tuomas: sorry about that too, I'll fix it.
Steve: I could actually see your blog working well as a basis for a sitcom, about a conservative and normal California man who lives in middle of a goofy gang of hip white liberals who are blind to their own hypocrisy which then constantly leads them to conflict with reality. Each week would tackle some particular liberal hypocrisy.
Maybe I should pitch this idea to Hollywood. :-)
Posted by Ilkka Kokkarinen | 8:13 AM