Month: November 2004

  • Help Stop Spam

    Brilliant idea: Make LOVE not SPAM. This is a screensaver that will download a few MB from spammer’s sites each day, and thus make spamming a less profitable proposition.

  • A commercial: as a volcano erupts in the distance, chunks of rock start falling from the sky, and we see that one of them is actually a Jeep Grand Cherokee, which then drives off. Small text on the bottom of the screen: “Do Not Attempt.”

  • a²+b²=c²

    The physics hit parade: the top five equations of all time.

  • As I was channel surfing just now, I noticed a PBS cartoon with a dragon – in a wheel chair. How absurd can this multiculturalism thing get? In other news, almost every single unsecured wireless router I come across still has the default password. This allows any passerby to not only monitor everything you do…

  • Happy Thanksgiving!

    Have a great one and don’t forget whom you should be thankful to.

  • Christian Feeds Self To Lions

    Man tries to convert lions to Jesus, gets bitten. Commentary.

  • Missed Comments

    Unfortunately, WordPress, the blog script running this site, still requires manual filtering of comment spam, so I almost missed nearly a dozen comments when cleaning up the spam tonight, including this one: …I love reading this blog. It’s because of it that I’ve started reading into Objectivism. Thanks, Garrett. If I’ve missed any other compliments…

  • Greenspan in the WSJ

    A pretty good story in the Wall Street Journal, with references to Ayn Rand and Objectivism: “A Less-Visible Role For the Fed Chief: Freeing Up Markets Greenspan Blessed Mergers And Blocked Regulation; Using the 1800s as a Model.” Greenspan is currently mentioned in the #1, #4, and #6 most popular WSJ articles, while Bush is…

  • "The U.N. discovers the cause of anti-Semitism: Jews"

    Anne Bayefsky @ OpinionJournal: “The U.N. discovers the cause of anti-Semitism: Jews”

  • "The Faith-Based Encyclopedia"

    Robert McHenry, the former Editor in Chief of the Encyclopædia Britannica slams WikiPedia hard: The user who visits Wikipedia to learn about some subject, to confirm some matter of fact, is rather in the position of a visitor to a public restroom. It may be obviously dirty, so that he knows to exercise great care,…