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Clevermonkey has briefly left semi-retirement from blogging in order to bring us his thoughts on music sharing. The inspiration for his post was a CBC News package from a few weeks ago: The segment had a lot of sound-bites from … Continue reading →

As I remarked a couple of weeks ago, I’ve been thinking about the two-dimensional policy space model that certain libertarians have come to favour. Specifically, I was wondering whether there’s an easy two-dimensional analogue of Black’s Theorem, which guarantees a … Continue reading →

The Urban Commuter Campus where I earn my livelihood, as seems to be the standard these days in the States, has a main academic year consisting of two fifteen-week semesters. In the summer, they then offer courses on either a … Continue reading →

This weekend I’ve had my first opportunity to use iMovie. I jumped at the chance, to tell the truth; video-editting is a hobby that I cultivated for a couple of years when I was Down South and that I haven’t … Continue reading →

I’m reading Umberto Eco’s Baudolino. I find Eco’s fiction a little bit hit-and-miss; I’m very much a fan of Foucault’s Pendulum, but couldn’t finish The Island of the Day Before and didn’t feel I had the knowledge of the medieval … Continue reading →

So there’s been a push in the last few years — principally by libertarians — to try and break away from the traditional single-dimensional political model. (That’s left vs. right.) Their proposal involves a two-dimensional space, separating economic and social … Continue reading →

In case you’re wondering why everything all of a sudden had quote marks around it, it’s because I tried closing a <q> tag with </i>. Found it, fixed it, all good AFAIK. I was going to write about something else, … Continue reading →

So in my continuing if probably futile attempts to lead a healthier lifestyle, I’ve decided to do something about my whole thing with fast food. ‘Cause here’s the deal. I tend to get distracted very easily: snatches of songs, beautiful … Continue reading →

So I’m well into the Firefly DVDs by now. I generally consider myself someone who doesn’t like TV, but that’s not entirely accurate. There’s no real principle that I hold against television; I just don’t particularly like aspects of the … Continue reading →

A couple of weeks ago I was in Florida at a conference. One of the attractions of this particular conference is a certain used bookstore in town. The people who run this bookstore are well aware that every year their … Continue reading →