February 2011
12 posts
They Have Learned Nothing, and Forgotten... →
One might have hoped that the fiascos resulting from our attempts to promote the “democratization” of Iraq, Lebanon, and Gaza would have cooled any &/or everybody’s ardor to embroil the U.S. any…
Augmented reality helps you fix your printer →
Augmented reality (AR) company Metaio will show a demo at next week’s Mobile World Congress in which AR on your mobile phone shows you how to change a printer toner cartridge.
Augmented…
RT @rgowan: Wintery mix refers to weather. Summery mix is a playlist of music. Spring mix is a salad. Is there a Fall mix of any kind?
“A Democratic and Republican Religion”: Catholics... →
By Steve Klugewicz
In the imperial crisis of 1763-1776, American republicans revived the political drama staged by their English brethren during the previous century. Americans…
Conservatism was damaged by its ties to Southern interests in the 1850s. I hope it’s not making the same mistake today with Wall Street.
Experts on Bias Exhibit a “Statistically... →
As The New York Times notes, “Some of the world’s pre-eminent experts on bias discovered an unexpected form of it at their annual meeting” when University of Virginia social psychologist Jonathan…
RT @lonelysandwich: I fear I once forgot to close a set of parentheses in an email in 2006 and my life since then has been a ruse.)
I would have just taken a check →
Bill Haslam spent $12.30 per vote in the gubernatorial election. The Dean does some division on the disclosures and goes through the races from Memphis to Mountain City.
The Truth About the Debt Ceiling →
Editor’s Note: Reason columnist Veronique de Rugy appears weekly on Bloomberg TV to separate economic fact from economic myth. The statutory debt limit, or debt ceiling, was designed to…
Freedom Requires Restraint: Where Movement... →
By Joseph Baldacchino
Russell KirkIn the wake of the 2008 elections the Republican Party looked to be on its last legs. Not only had Barack Obama triumphed in the…
The Difference Between the United Kingdom, Great... →
Did you know that Ireland is not a part of the United Kingdom? It isn’t. Well, Northern Ireland is but Ireland is not—though both are part of the British Isles.*
Oh, you didn’t know there were two…
The Omega Man →
Saturday night I sat down with two physicists from Union University and watched Charlton Heston in The Omega Man. The film is part of an unofficial apocalyptic trilogy which includes Planet…
January 2011
18 posts
Of the Burning of Books →
We’ve just begun, in our Development of Western Civilization course, to discuss the Middle Ages, and in particular how the monks in those early years, from the German takeover of the western…
What makes tva.com one of the five best government... →
Congress.org, an online publication of the Congressional Quarterly/Roll Call Group, recently gathered input from top web designers and ranked tva.com as one of the five best government websites….
RT @harrymccracken: Elevator guy after Verizon iPhone event: “I thought they were announcing a cure for something.”
The Corporate Empire State →
I’ve just started rewatching the Star Wars trilogy. I can’t say that I was ever much of a fan—I could never get past the dreadful acting, stilted dialogue, and the cheesy costumes. And I have always…
Cold Turkey http://instagr.am/p/9CkQ/
Wall Street Journal confirms iPhone coming to... →
Rumors of the iPhone coming to Verizon are almost as old as the iPhone itself, and earlier today we heard about a Verizon event next week, cleverly timed for 11 AM on 1/11/11.
That set off…
Ani – Ghost City of 1001 Churches →
Image Credit Flickr User Snotch
Ani – some call it the City of 1001 Churches, others the City of Forty Gates. Yet no one has called it home for more than three…
If you think your life is stressful or complicated watch The Firm again. It puts things in perspective.
Garmin announces StreetPilot, its first iPhone... →
Garmin International has been the leader in automobile GPS navigation for many years, but has been a no-show in the iPhone navigation app arena. Both TomTom and Magellan, also big…
Antinomian Redemption →
I’ve been working on a book off and on for the last year or so. The working title is Renewing the Conservative Imagination. My thesis is that our age is defined by an antinomian conviction. If we…
RT @gordonshumway: The only good thing about all the new people at my gym is the real & exciting possibility that I’ll see one of them g …
Man is a Pilgrim http://instagr.am/p/1bee/
Discovering iPod nano recovery mode →
Steven Troughton-Smith writes on his personal weblog that he may have discovered a way to put his iPod nano into some kind of DFU-like recovery mode. By holding down the restart buttons…
For some reason, Smooth Criminal is trending right now. I’m not embarrassed to say I own the video (10 min version). Mighty fine dancing.
