The Cato Institute’s David Boaz is pissed that most of the press isn’t covering the 50% decline in deaths from heart disease between 1980 and 2000: But this great news about heart disease appeared on page D4 of the Wall Street Journal and on page 13D of USA Today. As far as I can tell, [...]
Archive for November, 2011
If you didn’t watch the last episode of The Sopranos, still don’t know what happened, and don’t care to find out, stop reading at this point. I’m not really sure if that was necessary because I don’t think you can really spoil ambiguity, but, hey, you never know. For the record, I’m with what seems [...]
Kick to the face! Do not try to replicate these results. Last week I warned you that Microsoft’s Surface will go “all Skynet on us.” Well, when the Terminators come, Photosynth will be their mapping software. (Link from Anthony Gregory.) The stories behind three of Hollywood’s most famous sound effects. (Link from Randall McElroy.) If [...]
During the Korean War, President Truman ordered the federal government to takeover a steel plant in Youngstown, Ohio because a labor dispute threatened to shut down production and limit the steel supply. The move was later struck down by the Supreme Court as unconstitutional, but not before Assistant Attorney General Holmes Baldridge made this astonishing [...]
I went to see Ted Nugent in my hometown–Poplar Bluff, MO–tonight, and it was everything I hoped for. I knew I wanted to see the Nug’ in Poplar Bluff because it’s his kind of town, so there would be crazier people and Nugent himself would be wilder. This hypothesis proved correct, in a big way. [...]
According to AP sources, several thousand Turkish troops crossed into northern Iraq to pursue Kurdish sepratists. The Turkish foreign minister denies the incursion, but the Turkish military refuses to confirm or deny, which certainly seems like tacit admission of guilt. But even if Turkish troops didn’t cross into Iraq, tensions have been running higher than [...]
The Washington Times is running an article discussing the desire of many Iraqis who work with Americans to be brought to the United States when American troops leave Iraq. Although a military spokesman claims that these will people will not be coming to America, if history is any guide, many of them will. I’ve pointed [...]
The British Health Service will now deny operations to smokers unless they give up the habit for at least four weeks before surgery. The National Health Service is claiming that the move is designed to help patients recover more quickly, but it certainly smells like an attempt to limit costs by cutting back on surgeries. [...]
Yep, it’s my twenty-fourth birthday, and to mark this glorious occasion, I’m going to give you an extra helping of links this week. Thanks a lot for making this, Microsoft. You just know that thing’s gonna go all Skynet on us in a couple of years. Check out this sweet list of the 100 scariest [...]
