Month: March 2005

  • Top 100 skylines

    The top 100 city skylines from NoodleFood.

  • I'm hiring

    Are there any unemployed artists/web designers who follow my blog? Click.

  • Free Software List

    I often recommend free software to companies I work with, so I’ve decided to collect my recommendations in one place from now on: The Essential Free Windows Software List.

  • Things were bound to go haywire when the Brits banned their ancient tradition of fox hunting: the foxes are now hunting dogs.

  • LTE: Saving Schiavo's Soul

    The ongoing debate over the fate of Terri Schiavo is a revealing example of the differences between a secular and a religious world view. Those who advocate that Terry be kept alive and those supporting her right to die have two very different conceptions of the soul. The difference is crucial because differences in their…

  • Interesting article in the NYT about pre-packaged government propaganda passed on by network news as real journalism.

  • Nestle chief rejects the need to `give back'

    Companies shouldn’t feel obligated to “give back” to the community, because they haven’t taken anything away, the Austrian-born chief of the world’s largest food company told local executives yesterday… “What the hell have we taken away from society by being a successful company that employs people?” he said.

  • Against Software Patents

    The following comes from a post on ObjectivismOnline. For more, see the original thread. The protection of intellectual property requires the ability to create and apply an objective standard. Attempting to enforce intellectual property rights without the existence of an objective criteria or the ability to apply it violates real property rights, regardless of the…

  • New Toy

    My new phone. It speaks digital and analog, comes with a camera with zoom and flash, internal and external displays, speakerphone, and voice recognition for complete voice control. It weights 116g, has a talk time of 3 hours and a standby time of 150 hours. Its two-year-old ancestor seems like a dinosaur by comparison. Since…

  • Help with my Art Gallery

    After 1&1 permanently nixed my online art gallery without any means of restoring it, I finally re-created it by re-uploading the originals, because my backup is hopelessly out of date. The new gallery needs a lot of work to restore the lost grandeur, so I am looking for volunteers to help me add the relevant…