The Libertarian Critique of Distributive Justice
I'm all about maximizing utility, but for right now, I don't see a way for charity or other non-tax methods to achieve increased social justice.
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The Washington Monthly - The Magazine - The College For-profits Should Fear
I'd never heard of WGU, but it sounds like the future for a lot of training.
An Excerpt from Patriot Acts: Narratives of Post-9/11 Injustice by Voice of Witness
My understanding is that this is non-fictional. Depressing.
BBC News - Liberty rocket toward ISS launches pushes ahead
I know it's capitalizing on existing tech, but at least there's some semblance of post-shuttle plans.
Jon Huntsman 2012: Legacy Of Charity Efforts May Be Liability In GOP Presidential Race
Nice to see one of the candidates walk the walk.
got his hands (How The FBI Teaches Islam)
How do these guys get their presentations accepted??
The Shame of College Sports - Magazine - The Atlantic
Amazing history of how money has contaminated the convenient ideals of college sports. I agree with the conclusion: pay the players.
Mobile Opportunity: The Two Most Dangerous Words in Technology Marketing
Pre-announcing future products can doom your market position now.
Untouched is impossible: the story of Star Wars in film
There is no true original of Star Wars anymore, although there is something close. I keep holding out hope that we'll get a video version of the original theatrical release.
Print - Jon Stewart and the Burden of History - Esquire
I can see where this author is coming from, but I think they inflate Stewart's self-importance. But maybe I'm too much inside the cult.
News Analysis - A Balancing Act For President Obama - NYTimes.com
I don't know if there's any version that will pass this Congress.
Obama Administration Abandons Plan to Tighten Air-Quality Rules - NYTimes.com
Le sigh.
The late American jobs machine « Consider the Evidence
We need to figure out what it means to have each worker so much more efficient that we need very few workers.
Verhasselt: IPads have no place in the classroom - Iowa State Daily: Opinion
Bunk. I've been taking notes on my iPad since I got it. Just because you don't use it that way doesn't mean it can't be used that way.
Nanotube Cables Hit a Milestone: As Good as Copper - Technology Review
Pathetic Fallacy: A bad motivator
How copyright has allowed Lucas to obscure the original versions of Star Wars, even though they are core to our culture.
Netflix Separates Its Movie Servies, Infuriating Subscribers - WSJ.com
I'm not infuriated, although it does make it a bit harder to cross correlate ratings. It will be interesting to see where this goes; Netflix is very dependent on Big Content.
outlining (Education Is Priceless)
Teachers matter???
★ Thoughts and Observations Regarding This Week’s iPhone 4S Event, Written Almost Entirely Before Wednesday’s Sad News, But Which the Time Has Come to Publish Because Life Goes On
What more could you have wanted in a hypothetical ‘iPhone 5’ today?
steve on Devour.com
The definitive Steve clips.
Apple's "Let's Talk iPhone" In 90 Seconds - YouTube
"iPhone 4S. A5 chip. 8 Megapixel sensor! A squirrel."
Scenes From A Multiverse - Catering By Taco Bell
An amusing "He's not dead" take.
Apple Steve Jobs The Crazy Ones - NEVER BEFORE AIRED 1997 - YouTube
Classic, with The Steve.
Apple's 1987 Knowledge Navigator, Only One Month Late - Waxy.org
Some details are a bit off, but the ideas were there.
Owning the stack: The legal war to control the smartphone platform
Great overview of the legal wars to exert control over all or part of the smartphone space.
An Unheard Hero Of 9/11
Interesting story about plans to kamikaze other possible captured jetliners. I'm surprised it wasn't covered in the United 93 film, which was otherwise very detailed.
Rich Tax Breaks Bolster Video Game Makers
I'm a little annoyed that the author went for the "no value to society" angle. I suspect the video game industry would continue to produce without subsidies.
Drawing The Future
I think I had one of his books as a kid. Lots of really weird concepts, like hot dogs with condiments inside, that have come to pass.
Attack of the Superweed - BusinessWeek
Roundup resistance is a sign of our mismanaged agricultural resources.
The Prescience Of Mearsheimer
An old New York Times piece from October 2001 that has turned out to be all too right about our invasion of Afghanistan. Graveyard of empires, and all that.