- How To Explain Things to Libertarians
- The D-Squared Digest One Minute MBA – Avoiding Projects Pursued By Morons 101
- Wikipedia: Benford’s Law – I still don’t understand *why*, to be honest
- YouTube Tamura Sensei, 1984
- Interconnected.org: on the existential heebie-jeebies
- ‘Will — Tania’s boyfriend — is quivering with rage. He’s young, and doesn’t understand yet how random, insane and chaotic the universe is. He still lives in a world where answers will be provided if you demand them.’
- How to free up space in Gmail
- Reconsidering the Rational Public: Cognition, Heuristics, and Mass Opinion. James H. Kuklinski & Paul J. Quirk (2000). In Elements of Reason: Cognition, Choice, and the Bounds of Rationality. ‘any broad conclusion that people [ie the citizenry] achieve [political] competence via heuristics is also debatable’. Ignores possibility of collective cognitive activity — ie more than mere aggregation, citizenry is viewed as essentially positive. Very modern. Evolutionary psychology agenda unacknowledged.
- Why Kenya has champion distance runners
- coveredinbees.org Map Not Territory
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One reply on “Links for nov 2007”
I love the “how to explain things to a libertarian” article ! It’s actually quite funny that the author would try to red-baite libertarians pointing out similarities with other strands of anarchism, as if you could somehow be guilty by association. Never seen that before. He does not understand what Proudhon meant though. And his intellectual genealogy of libertarianism does not stand up to scrutiny, if only because Proudhon did not himself fall out of the aether.
The part on crony capitalism is downright dishonest, no libertarian cautions crony capitalism and most are very critical of the war in Iraq (check out http://www.antiwar.com/ for instance). As for the “corporation are governments” jibe, well try to resign from a country and we’ll discuss the merit of _that_ little joke.
Kenyan runners : actually, they’re not just Kenyan, they are Kalenjin, only 3% of the Kenyan population.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalenjin_people
Moreover, there are loads of people in the world who live in comparable circumstances (starting with neighbouring tribes) and although they do well in long-distance running, no group is as consistently good as the Kalenjin.