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Posts since Nov 11, 2008 at 13:57

Sep 13, 2009
Free accomodation in Frigate Bay, St. Kitts
Aug 14, 2009
UK imposes direct rule over Turks & Caicos
Aug 12, 2009
Empathy out of control
Aug 6, 2009
Tales of the Caribbean, #1
Aug 3, 2009
Outlawing lying and deception
Jul 30, 2009
Standards of beauty
Jul 24, 2009
The Onion, now run by the Chinese
Jul 3, 2009
How well do you know the Bible?
Jun 23, 2009
Occam's Razor
Jun 22, 2009
Can't hear you, honey
Jun 22, 2009
Miami's tent city for sex offenders
Jun 21, 2009
The right to arm bears #2
Jun 20, 2009
The right to arm bears #1
Jun 20, 2009
Biosphere 2
Jun 19, 2009
A lover's plight
Jun 16, 2009
xkcd
Jun 15, 2009
Windows Installer sucks
Jun 15, 2009
Poking fun at religion
Jun 15, 2009
Seasteading
Jun 14, 2009
Wal-Mart's Weight Effect
Jun 12, 2009
Traditional morality and sex health research
Jun 9, 2009
Boneheads in charge of H1B legislation
Jun 7, 2009
Slovenians no longer need visas to St. Kitts
May 17, 2009
Way to go, South Point
Apr 30, 2009
Women not finding partners
Apr 30, 2009
Never forget!
Apr 29, 2009
Egypt slaughters all pigs to avoid swine flu
Apr 28, 2009
Obama to radically increase science funding
Apr 27, 2009
Svalbard
Apr 25, 2009
French wine militants attack
Apr 25, 2009
It's not my arm!
Apr 25, 2009
One value set to rule them all
Apr 22, 2009
Stardock leaks customers' emails to spam
Apr 22, 2009
Why hearsay is not to be trusted
Apr 22, 2009
How things work out if government doesn't get in the way
Apr 19, 2009
Amazon EC2
Apr 18, 2009
Never, ever use Cooplabs
Apr 17, 2009
Gospodarska okorelost
Apr 16, 2009
French fishermen blockade channel crossings
Apr 16, 2009
Zipcar
Apr 14, 2009
The Voodoo Sciences
Apr 13, 2009
Good job, Navy snipers
Apr 8, 2009
The most dangerous person in the world
Apr 8, 2009
North Korea travelogue
Apr 6, 2009
Egypt jails swinging couple
Apr 6, 2009
Unworthy of lasers
Apr 6, 2009
Another African economist calls to stop "aid"
Apr 4, 2009
Universal Basic Income
Apr 2, 2009
Glimpses of rarely observed reality
Mar 31, 2009
Meat
Mar 28, 2009
Tito Street
Mar 26, 2009
Pare down the law
Mar 26, 2009
China proposes global reserve currency
Mar 25, 2009
CPU-based backdoors
Mar 25, 2009
Screening parents for genetic disorders
Mar 25, 2009
The gospel according to Futurama
Mar 24, 2009
The Holy Grail: Native Client
Mar 21, 2009
Things North America has that Slovenia doesn't
Mar 21, 2009
The French
Mar 21, 2009
A game that cannot be played with integrity
Mar 16, 2009
The 5 Moral Mechanisms of Jonathan Haidt
Mar 14, 2009
Too big to exist #3
Mar 13, 2009
The Madoff victims
Mar 13, 2009
A culture of entitlement
Mar 10, 2009
Daniel Hamermesh for higher income taxation
Feb 24, 2009
TLS/SSL usability
Feb 23, 2009
The U.S. should probably nationalize banks
Feb 13, 2009
The Fun-Fun Ultra Super Happy People
Feb 9, 2009
The doghouse: Costa Cruises
Feb 8, 2009
Madame Prosecutor
Feb 3, 2009
The cause of the crisis
Jan 28, 2009
Stimulus
Jan 27, 2009
Murderer
Jan 19, 2009
Teenage "child pornographers" charged for pictures of themselves
Jan 19, 2009
Patents retard progress
Jan 17, 2009
They don't just kill rhinos
Jan 17, 2009
EU idiocy about Microsoft continues
Jan 16, 2009
The doghouse: Whole Foods fires employee for stopping shoplifter
Jan 16, 2009
Ukraine should prepare against a Russian invasion
Jan 14, 2009
The doghouse: FedEx Office, internet obstructions in hotels
Jan 10, 2009
Middle ages, here we come!
Jan 7, 2009
Ski helmet idiocy in Austria
Dec 30, 2008
Svoboda in orožje
Dec 25, 2008
Newcomb's problem
Dec 24, 2008
Chinese dishonesty
Dec 22, 2008
Tao te ching
Dec 19, 2008
Ka-Ching
Dec 12, 2008
The ineffectiveness of economic stimulus
Dec 6, 2008
The falsity of formally proven software
Nov 28, 2008
Thanksgiving prayer
Nov 18, 2008
Somali pirates capture huge oil tanker
Nov 17, 2008
Skilled, unskilled, unaware
Nov 15, 2008
The clever rebooting by Windows Update
Nov 15, 2008
"The case for forward-looking protectionism"
Nov 15, 2008
They can't even cut the power right in St. Kitts
Nov 15, 2008
A question for Ron Paul (on Freakonomics)
Nov 13, 2008
The Bomb prevented a yet greater tragedy
Nov 12, 2008
The economics of religion
Nov 12, 2008
The Pope doesn't want you to be able to sell your kidney
Nov 11, 2008
A single, controlling majority shareholder in finance
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