Current Events Archive
DRM Doesn’t Work for Audiobooks, Either
March 4, 2008 · Category: Current Events
A truly interesting development, reported by MacRumors:
The New York Times reports on a growing trend for book publishers to move away from content protected by Digital Rights Management (DRM). Instead, Random House and Penguin Group, ...
Posted by Joshua Zader · 2 Comments »
Ferguson Speaks from the Heart
My thanks to Andrew Schwartz for pointing out this excellent example of sincerity and integrity.
That video clip is pretty funny, as well. But part of what makes it so full of integrity is that he ...
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Objectivism, Modern Politics, and the Non-initiation of Force
A friend made some claims in a friends-only post at LiveJournal, and a disagreement between us ensued. Since it was a friends-only post, I cannot really quote his post here in public.
The issues raised ...
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Study: Airport Screening Process Is Pointless
January 9, 2008 · Category: Current Events
A group of Harvard researchers concludes there is no evidence that making people take off their shoes, or dump out their bottled water, does anything to make us safer:
Airport security lines can annoy passengers, but ...
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Check Out the Cars Made by Biofuel Genius Johnathan Goodman
January 4, 2008 · Category: Current Events, Intellectual
"Motorhead Messiah" is the most interesting article I've read in months. An excerpt:
Goodwin leads me over to a red 2005 H3 Hummer that's up on jacks, its mechanicals removed. He aims to use the ...
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Jingle Bombs
December 31, 2007 · Category: Current Events, Humor
Delightful.
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Home nuclear reactor? Sign me up.
December 20, 2007 · Category: Current Events
Toshiba has built a micro nuclear reactor designed for powering an apartment building or a city block. And apparently it's for real.
Toshiba has developed a new class of micro size Nuclear Reactors that is ...
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Down and Dirty Election Politics
Hat tip to Paul Hsieh for pointing out the best campaign ad so far in this election cycle.
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The Producers’ Strike Against TV Viewers
December 12, 2007 · Category: Current Events
Boffo has a fascinating post on why the motion picture and television studios are, somewhat mysteriously, in no big hurry to end the writer's strike.
Read the whole thing for a much better explanation, ...
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I Like Fred Thompson
I enjoyed watching Chris Wallace's recent interview with Fred Thompson -- and I share Thompson's bewilderment at Fox's nitpicking negativity, so far, about his budding campaign.
In general, I agree with Matthew Dallman's assessment of ...
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