13 February 2005
Learning to Love the Neocons
by mikepower
The neocons ought not be taken lightly, especially since they have pilfered something from the arsenal of the left even as they are misusing it. What they have pilfered, simply, is the idea that the world can be changed.
02 February 2005
The Wisdom of Warren Buffett
by mikepower
"Top 5" things (prioritized) I learned from Warren Buffett
Vanishing Point: How to disappear in America without a trace
by mikepower
Satellites can bounce LASER light off of your windows and, by measuring the minute distance differences between a vibrating window and the satellite, reconstruct your speech -- from orbit!
27 January 2005
How I became a Jew
by mikepower
What unclean thoughts do I have about Islam and our Arab neighbours? What are my thoughts when I see devout Muslims on our streets in traditional dress, speaking poor English? Am I not looking at myself?
25 January 2005
Squashed Philosophers- Condensed Plato Aristotle Augustine Descartes Hume Marx Freud Copernicus Hobbes Sartre Ayer Sade Wittgenstein Einstein
by mikepower & 17 others
The books which defined the way The West thinks now Condensed and abridged to keep the substance, the style and the quotes, but ditching all that irritating verbiage.
Ignore the vanity of the Bushites, America's might is draining away: Matthew Parris
by mikepower
For many decades America’s share of the world’s economic output has been in decline. America’s modesty in 1945 understated its muscle, Bushite vanity overstates it today.
22 January 2005
Philip Pullman: Common sense has much to learn from moonshine
by mikepower
If we want children to write well, giving them formal instruction in grammar turns out not to be any use; getting them actually writing seems to help a great deal more. There was no evidence at all that the teaching of grammar had any beneficial effect on
All About Food - Copycat Recipes
by mikepower
Just like the real thing? Almost: Kentucky Fried Chicken; McDonald's Apple Mcmuffin; Sara Lee's Carrot Square Cake; Trader Vic's Mauna Kea Chicken
16 January 2005
An Apology: To the Girl in the Parking Garage
by mikepower
It was late. We happened to be walking on the same path. I knew you were nervous--I would be too if I was a petite female, walking alone on a desolate and dark city street at 1:00 a.m.
14 January 2005
War Created Haven, CIA Advisers Report
by mikepower
Iraq has replaced Afghanistan as the training ground for the next generation of "professionalized" terrorists, according to a report released yesterday by the National Intelligence Council, the CIA director's think tank.
Special reports: Bush under fire over human rights
by mikepower
America's human rights abuses have provided a rallying cry for terrorists and set a bad example to regimes seeking to justify their own poor rights records, a leading independent watchdog said yesterday.
13 January 2005
In praise of blasphemy
by mikepower
A multicultural society needs not more taboos but more tolerance for taboo-breaking
11 January 2005
Greed: The Nuts Game
by mikepower
Three people sit around a kitchen bowl. You, the fourth person, with a timer, start off placing ten small items in the bowl - quarters, dollar bills, or nuts. Tell the three players the goal is for each of them to get as many items as they can. Tell them
09 January 2005
Science is where the intellectual story is
by mikepower
What has happened in the past couple of decades has been that scientists have increasingly bypassed the rather supercilious arts intellectuals and seized the intellectual initiative and the intellectual high ground for themselves.
08 January 2005
John Cartan - 20 Strange and Wonderful Books
by mikepower
Here, then, are twenty strange and wonderful books from my library. Even if you have no curiosity about my inner life, you will profit by coming to know any one of these books.
file magazine : a collection of unexpected photography
by mikepower
The purpose of FILE is to collect and display photographs that treat subjects in unexpected ways. Alternate takes, odd angles, unconventional observations - these are some of the ways photographs collected in FILE reinterpret traditional genres.
07 January 2005
Worse Than Fiction: Read it and weep (or laugh)
by mikepower
I've been thinking of writing a political novel. It will be a bad novel because there won't be any nuance: the villains won't just espouse an ideology I disagree with - they'll be hypocrites, cranks and scoundrels.
05 January 2005
Brain Processes Whistled Language Just as Spoken
by mikepower
The rare Canarian whistled language called the Silbo Gomero is processed by the brain just like a spoken language
The 100 Oldest Currently Registered DOTCOM Domains
by mikepower & 1 other
Starting with Symbolic.com on 15-Mar-1985 Starting with Symbolics.com 15th March 1985
Cutting Through - A live case study
by mikepower & 2 others
10 ways to use blogs for managing projects
02 January 2005
Dan Gillmor on Grassroots Journalism
by mikepower & 3 others
As many of you know I'm going to work hard on a project to inspire, enable and create what many have been calling a new kind of journalism.
29 December 2004
Science of Cooking
by mikepower
Discover how a pinch of curiosity can improve your cooking! Explore recipes, activities, and Webcasts that will enhance your understanding of the science behind food and cooking.
23 December 2004
USS Clueless The best of Den Beste
by mikepower
Links to blog entries by Den Beste that he considers are among the best or most important he has written
16 December 2004
Canada Goes To Hell
by mikepower
Funny and true, great piece by Mark Morford. Legal pot? Legal gay marriage? Universal health care? What's next, free porn and candy?
