…I know how hard it is to reach you so I am posting this here in case you come by. I’m just worried about you, because your at an age– that is hard to handle for a young person. Believe me– I was there once myself. I was about your age when I had a [...]
Aaron Swartz, now in his early twenties, rose to internet fame as technology whiz kid a couple of years ago, working on such things as W3C standards or the Creative Commons. He was also blogger behind the very successful Google Weblog. Via instant messenger, Philipp Lenssen interviewed him in a very interesting chat on Reddit, [...]
With my latest posts about fire arm ownership, and if it makes a difference to the crime rate I was please to come across this article about gun ownership in Sitzerland.
Guns are deeply rooted within Swiss culture - but the gun crime rate is so low that statistics are not even kept.
The country has a [...]
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In my researching about previous presidents and related to my comments lately about how bad Bush Jr. has been, I ran across a essay that hit nicely on the subject.
A question that seems to be on everybody’s mind these days turns out to be: Is George Bush the worst President in American history?But how do [...]
The easy answer to the Virginia Tech massacre
Comic by Scott Stantis
With all the grief that this event has given. And all the pointing of fingers. Perhaps its the simplest answer that should win out, and the voices should quiet.
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I saw this picture in the FILE Magazine feed, and I’ve yet to figure out what they are. They don’t look like oil rigs, and they are too close together for old Self-Defense Stations, so does anyone know what they are? Can they tell me?
The Toyota Prius has become the flagship car for those in our society so environmentally conscious that they are willing to spend a premium to show the world how much they care. Unfortunately for them, their ultimate ‘green car’ is the source of some of the worst pollution in North America; it takes more combined [...]
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I’ve spent the last few days reading over stories of Vigilantes taking on Scammers and scamming them into wasting tons of time, and money. The “Scam Baiters” get the scammers to waste money hiring photographers to take pictures of them being ridiculous, paying for shipping of heavily weighted very expensive broken stuff, and anything [...]
Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I saw this today, and it struck me. We strive to learn, sometimes in hectic sessions that almost seem that its through brute force that the knowledge is provided and arrives. But when it comes down to it, its [...]
If you look at a lot of the fear-mongering stories about children and video games, one of the big ones is the idea that kids are just sitting around getting fat playing video games, rather than going outside and getting some exercise by playing. Of course, it might make you wonder why the same fear [...]
