Left-wing conspiracy

Posted by Richard Bennett

I wanted to see what people are saying about Krugman today, but the Technorati: Link Cosmos is empty just for this one article.
The left doesn’t want you to know what a liar Krugman is, apparently.
UPDATE: I’ve shamed Technorati into showing some links, but it’s a small list.
UPDATE AGAIN: It looks like Technorati has finally more [...]

Gender Genie

Posted by Richard Bennett

Some silly people are bragging about Gender Genie scores of 2:1 as evidence of raging masculinity. The score for The Future of Mediocrity is 4:1 (8110:1990), so neener neener neener.
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Maybe it’s not so much fun after all

Posted by Richard Bennett

The San Jose Mercury News finds gays reluctant to register domestic partnerships under the Jackie Goldberg law that extends rights to gay couples because of the responsibilities involved:

Partners with incomes higher than their mates may balk at the risk of having to pay “alimony” if they split up. Those who want to protect and pass [...]

Economy growing

Posted by Richard

This seems like important news:

WASHINGTON (AP) – The economy grew at a scorching 7.2 percent annual rate in the third quarter in the strongest pace in nearly two decades. Consumers spent with abandon and businesses ramped up investment, compelling new evidence of an economic resurgence.
I wonder why this isn’t headlines?
UPDATE: Reader points out that it [...]

The Enemy Here is George Bush

Posted by Richard Bennett

See Michael Totten in Tech Central Station – The Crucial Alliance:

Last month at a Democratic Party debate Howard Dean said “we need to remember that the enemy here is George Bush.” This was during an argument with Dick Gephardt about Medicare. At the same time, the mullahs in Iran and the Stalinist tyrant in North [...]

We’re not losing the culture wars

Posted by Richard

Technology is helping the conservative side in the culture wars, according to Brian C. Anderson:

The Left’s near monopoly over the institutions of opinion and information — which long allowed liberal opinion makers to sweep aside ideas and beliefs they disagreed with, as if they were beneath argument — is skidding to a startlingly swift halt. [...]

Orrin Hatch is insane

Posted by Richard Bennett

Jesus Christ, look at this attempt to bring more foreign tech workers into the US:

WASHINGTON — Proposals to allow more high-technology foreign workers into the U.S. are gaining ground on Capitol Hill, despite complaints that plenty of Americans are available to fill the jobs.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R., Utah) is pushing a plan [...]

The Future of Mediocrity

Posted by Richard

Larry Lessig?s book The Future of Ideas is an examination of the Internet?s influence on social discourse as well as an analysis of the forces shaping the net in the past and present. The message is both utopian and apocalyptic, and the analysis aspires to be technical, cultural, and legal. It?s an ambitious enterprise that [...]

God gets medieval

Posted by Richard

God’s getting increasingly aggressive with those who trifle with him. Three weeks ago, a man who had sex in a cathedral to get on the radio dropped dead at the age of 38, and now it’s lightning bolts:

ROME, Italy — Actor Jim Caviezel, who plays Jesus in Mel Gibson’s controversial film “The Passion of Christ” [...]

Etherbod

Posted by Richard Bennett

Technology Review: Human Body Network Gets Fast

Researchers from NTT Docomo Multimedia Labs and NTT Microsystem Integration Labs in Japan have demonstrated a 10-megabits-per-second indoor network that uses human bodies as portable ethernet cables.
The network, dubbed ElectAura-Net, is wireless, but instead of using radio waves, infrared light, or microwaves to transmit information it uses a combination [...]