Category: General

nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation. As the...

The New York State Senate passed S.1750, which, if passed by the Assembly, will modify the way New York allocates its electors. Modifies the election method for...

Thurston Moore, of Sonic Youth, on mix tapes: In those days, tape decks were as essential as turntables. And they were as bulky as well. But right around this t...

Mark Paschal points to Luke Gonze’s review of Randy Charles Morin‘s Universal Subscription Mechanism. For a while now I haven’t much cared abo...

Consider the case of a restaurant which wants to occupy a local historical landmark. All goes swimmingly until the owner finds that the town requires ten more p...

Cato asks, Does anyone believe in Federalism anymore?

The kittens, rapidly becoming cats, are firm believers in the dining table principle of you snooze; you lose. It is thus in my self-interest to eat this steak a...

In a BusinessWeek article on how Microsoft is causing SBC to fall behind schedule — thanks, Bill — the authors don’t question a key market ass...

Does anyone pay attention to SGI anymore? Some years ago, SGI decided to discontinue development of systems using the MIPS processor, and to pursue development ...

David Sucher wonders, in response to my post from the other night, if anyone has mapped the real estate bubbles. The realtors release pricing information from t...

Well, hell, I’m surprised. I’m not surprised that Apple has been developing all versions of OS X since its inception to run on both Intel and PowerP...

About this housing bubble (via The Big Picture), David Sucher asks, should you buy or sell? That’s a very good question, and I tend to agree with his anal...

We’ve got pests. These little buggers are disgusting, twitchy, and eating the hell out of my pines.

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I have never been able to convince Excel to draw the graphs that I expect it should draw. I have a set of data which I want to use for the values of x, and anot...

The Yahoo! Music Engine description says, Transfer music to your portable player in seconds; it’s compatible with the most popular devices (Rio, Sony, Phi...

Jenny asks So what are you doing to help the iPod*-owning-soccer-moms in your community? Are you thinking that far ahead? As a profession, we’d better start f...

In a discussion on UNIX’s uid, which is a 32-bit unsigned integer unique only within a certain namespace, usually defined by the /etc/passwd file. These n...

Phil Ringnalda‘s simile comparing GET and POST with light switches and firealarms, reminds me of the situation at the head of our stairs. Making the fire ...

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