Month: November 2003

  • Bin Laden in Iran

    Fox News analyst Mansoor Ijaz: Al-Zawahiri was seen within the last two weeks, and bin Laden was spotted in July, says the network’s foreign affairs analyst Mansoor Ijaz. … Iran’s provision of safe harbor, finances and logistical support for al-Qaida is a measure to counter the possibility that U.S. action in that region could result…

  • "Economics for Real People" website

    Collectrix.com is now hosting Economics for Real People, a new introduction to Austrian economics in the spirit of Economics of One Lesson. Other than excerpts, I haven’t read it yet, but from what I understand, it’s a great book.

  • New Battlestar Galactica Series

    Last year, I started watching 1979-era Battlestar Galactica episodes on the SciFi channel. The show was pretty decent, and when I heard that a new series was being made, I was initially excited. Then I read the intro: So we’ve set out to bring the old boy back to life and give him a new…

  • The Palestinian people does not exist.

    I came across a revealing quote today: The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons…

  • Glow in the dark fish!

    The next miracle of genetic engineering has arrived: glow in the dark fish! Eco-freaks are already moaning: “It’s biological pollution,” said Andrew Kimbrell, executive director of the Center for Food Safety. He said that even if the GloFish was not dangerous, failure to regulate it would set a precedent allowing many other ornamental fish to…

  • North Korea

    The United States, South Korea, Japan and the European Union decided today to suspend construction of two nuclear reactors in North Korea. The nuclear reactors being built for North Korea are extortion payments by western nations meant to delay plutonium production at North Korea’s other nuclear plants (built with western aid as well, of course.)…

  • Affirmative action bake sale

    Check out my photo blog of the YCT affirmative action bake sale.

  • CodeFellas

    Now here is a job my advisor didn’t tell me about : tech suport for the mob.

  • New Photos

    With the coming of winter, I’ve added a third “space heater” to my room and posted new shots of me at work. If you haven’t seen my photo gallery at all, you should go to photos.rationalmind.net…now. I also wrote an autobiography for my about page. What do you think?

  • Google

    In the first 15 days of November, I had 1008 unique search engine hits from Google, contributing to most of my 38,181 hits and 4,258 visits. Here are the top 8 queries: jewish racism cultural misunderstanding html compression george bush award for excellence in public service middle east terrorism victorian morality arguments for fox hunting…