Daily Archives: September 24, 2008

My updates for 2008-09-24

September 24th, 2008 | Posted in Twitter

PETA wants Ben and Jerry’s ice-cream to be made with human breast milk: http://www.wptz.com/news/17539127/detail.html #
"The past two days I’ve been on a tyrant." Uh, don’t you mean ‘tirade’? But ‘tyrant’ makes more sense, in a way. #

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Apple: socialist or libertarian?

September 24th, 2008 | Posted in General

I love Apple and the iPhone, and have been (as I mentioned here) a Mac user for 16 years. Silicon Valley in general has always been a healthy home for libertarianism, and for a certain form of techno-utopianism wherein technology, and the freedom to create and use it, is seen as the answer to [...]

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McCain halts campaign for the economy

September 24th, 2008 | Posted in General

You know things are bad when the presidential campaign is put on hold so that the senators running for the White House can “deal” with the “historic” crisis facing the US economy. One problem is that nobody really knows what the hell is going on, although Bill Clinton articulated the general drift of it [...]

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