Innovative idea? Better get congressional approval before you go to market
Radley Balko linked to this story on Twitter, nominating it for the most “incredibly dumb IP story of the day“. Hard not to agree, possibly even upping that nomination to “of the month” or possibly...
View ArticleThe Two Scotts’ NFL picks for the week
I don’t take my NFL picks very seriously, but Scott Feschuk and Scott Reid are as unserious as possible: San Francisco (minus 4) at New York Jets Feschuk: […] Now the lockout is over, which is great...
View ArticleTracking (smaller) space junk in orbit
Strategy Page on the latest developments in tracking even smaller pieces of space junk in orbit around the Earth: The U.S. Air Force is spending nearly $4 billion to build a S-Band radar on Kwajalein...
View ArticleIf you’re not getting enough convictions on drug charges, tamper with the...
The war on drugs is already insane enough, with civil liberties being curtailed in pursuit of drug dealers and even drug users. The number of US citizens in prison for drug charges helps make the US...
View ArticleRegulating the size of soft drinks won’t solve the obesity problem, but will...
At Reason, Baylen Linnekin explains that even if all the claims about the nutritional evils of sweetened soft drinks are completely true, regulations will not actually make much difference: As an...
View ArticleDisabusing Canadians about mercantilism, one tweet at a time
Stephen F. Gordon is waging a lonely campaign to persuade Canadians that free trade is better than the managed, mercantilist “free trade” most of our governments have wanted since the NAFTA...
View ArticleHe comes not to praise Mists of Pandaria but to bury it
A harsh review of the latest World of Warcraft expansion in the PC World gaming column: As I’ve played the new WoW expansion this week and journeyed through the lands of Pandaria I’ve been struck by...
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CN experiments with natural gas for its locomotives
Canadian National Railways is running a limited experiment with a pair of retro-fitted diesel locomotives converted to running on natural gas: Canadian National Railway is exploring whether its...
View ArticleEven when they quote you accurately, they can still miss the point you’re...
Tim Worstall, after thanking all the folks who got him to the point he can be quoted (and quoted accurately) in the Los Angeles Times, realizes that they’re using his words to present a point he isn’t...
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This week in Guild Wars 2
My weekly community round-up at GuildMag has been posted. The game is now a month old, and the community is still posting game-related blog posts, videos, podcasts, and fan fiction at a blistering...
View ArticleDefending the welfare state … badly
At sp!ked, David Clements reviews a new book by Asbjorn Wahl which inadvertently exposes some of the very real problems of the modern welfare state in the process of praising and defending it: Asbjorn...
View ArticleThe future of electronics might be biodegradable
Brid-Aine Parnell at The Register, talking about specialized electronic development: When it comes to electronics, boffins are usually going one way — how to make them smaller, faster and longer...
View ArticleReason.tv: Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring at 50 Years
“It’s not polite to talk about brown and black people dying because rich white people in America feel better about themselves when the brown and black people don’t get to use DDT,” says the University...
View ArticleDuelling reading lists for military science
Foreign Policy listed the “Top 10” books as recommended by the US Military Academy at West Point: On War, Carl von Clausewitz, 1832. I’ve read this, but perhaps it’s better in the original than in...
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Colin Russon, RIP
Obituary notice in the Calgary Herald, 27 September, 2012 Colin and I weren’t close — I hadn’t seen him in many years — but it’s still a shock when a family member (however distant) dies unexpectedly....
View ArticleThe Guild Season 6 trailer
Related posts: The Guild Season 4 trailer New trailer for Guild Wars 2 The Guild, Season 4 Episode 7
View ArticleYahtzee Croshaw reviews Guild Wars 2
The Escapist : Zero Punctuation : Guild Wars 2 Related posts: Yahtzee reviews Duke Nukem Forever PC Gamer reviews Guild Wars 2 Guild Wars 2 to be available on Mac OS X
View ArticleGary Johnson profile in Businessweek
He’s still struggling to get on the last three state ballots (Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Oklahoma), but Gary Johnson does offer a very different vision than BaraMitt Obamney: Gary Johnson was governor...
View ArticleVirginia Postrel on the faulty notion of “secure jobs”
Along with proving that no American politician ever deliberately angers the “middle class” (because literally 89% of Americans consider themselves to be middle class), Virginia Postrel points out the...
View ArticleUnthinking support of “the troops”
If you’ve read the blog for a while, you’ll know that I’m far from anti-military. I was in the Canadian militia (the army reserve) during my teenage years, and still have friends who are serving in the...
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