Abortion?:Try to avoid it, but it needs to be an option Death Penalty?:Pro in theory, Anti in practice. It's too hard to be certain. Prostitution?:Require safe practices, then sure. Alcohol?:I like Europe's approach Marijuana?:Legal Other drugs?:Legal. If they may cause you to harm others, then only in special places (hospitals?) to prevent harm. ( Read more... )

Leftist rag proclaims end of American Dream through drop in social mobility! Read it all at http://www.businessweek.com/@@SV5bKocQnzhS3BUA/magazine/content/03_48/b3860067_mz021.htmRead more... )

Wow, it's been a whole year. One year ago today, around 11 million people around the world protested against the planned war against Iraq.

( Some of the best pictures from that page )

Mistyping the groklaw url got me to a blog that mentioned http://www.magnatune.com/. Wow. They're an online music store that gives you an unlimited noncommercial license to the music they sell. You can listen to a 128-kbit MP3 stream of any of their songs for free, and you can buy an album at ( Read more... )

http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html

If you're using a Mac, you're probably using iTunes to play music. As I discovered today, it doesn't by default play Ogg Vorbis, but there's this lovely Quicktime plugin which lets it do just that. iTunes, as usual, has some troubles importing lots of songs at once (haven't they heard of threads?), but the songs play fine ( Read more... )

For a good laugh, see http://www.livejournal.com/users/rosebriar/68781.html

Yesterday (Tuesday) we had occasion to go to walmart. While Sunshine was discovering that walmart only makes jeans for strangely misshapen people, I was wandering around the video/game console/camera section of the store. Since it's the camera section, they have memory chips for sale. Now, a memory chip is about 1 square inch. How big is the ( Read more... )

My continuing resolutions:
To learn.
To grow.
To try new things, new experiences
as if they were articles of clothing
on the bargain rack,
or books at Half-Price.
It costs little to try one on for size,
read a few pages,
keep it if I like.
If I don't, I can always put it down
and walk away.

A moment of silence for Dr. Edsger Dijkstra, one of computing's greats.