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This announcement comes from my forum:

Thanks to our Premium members, the forum now offers a blog feature that integrates with the forum. The software allows you to create your very own full-featured blog with its own URL and share your posts with the forum. You can also add your existing blog to the
forum’s list of blogs.

The option to create your blog is in the top left of your control panel (“My Controls” on top right). Once it has been created, you will find additional options and settings there.

Please spread the word!

London Telegraph:

When he was 9 years old, Carl Murphy, now 18, was trespassing at a warehouse near Liverpool, England,
and fell through the roof of the building. He fell 40 feet and suffered a massive skull fracture, so he sued the building’s owner, claiming that if the site had a better security fence to keep him out, he wouldn’t have been injured. The court bought it: he was awarded 567,000 pounds (US$1.06 million). “After all I’ve been through, I feel I really deserve this money,” Murphy says. “The papers just call me a yob and a thug because I’ve been done for robbery and assault but those were just silly stupid little things, like.” He plans to spend his cash on a “flash car” and “a big house so I have a place to live with me mum when she gets out of jail.”

Found at This is True

There’s a thread on one of my favorite Heinlein stories, “The Door into Summer” at the 4aynrandfans forum. I’m currently reading Henlein’s first book, For Us, the Living – highly recommended for hardcore Henlein fans.

Closeness to nature, deep religious faith, a renewal of chastity and modesty, communal economies, and uncritical open-mindedness. No, I am not referring to popular ideas of our society, but to the middle ages, and the dominant influence that Christianity played therein. It’s important to be aware of not just the advantages of living in a civilized liberal society, but of the alternative – and the ideas behind it.

John at TexasBestGrok points out the hypocrisy of supporting the “sanctity of marriage” while denying Michael Schiavo the power to speak on behalf of his wife.

OK, ok, I really don’t give a damn about the Schiavo charade, I just wanted to plug TexasBestGrok, whose author is a fellow Texan who shares my love of Heinlein, science fiction, scifi babes, flying, and capitalism. Hmm, maybe not such a coincidence afterall?

From my other blog: Designing an effective campus flier on the ObjectivismOnline meta-blog.

The top 100 city skylines from NoodleFood.

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

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.