Too Poor to Marry?
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Heather Mac Donald takes on the ridiculous idea that you can be “too poor to marry”. I’m pretty sure that this take also works for the equally ridiculous idea that “we can’t get married until older and more established”. The most idiotic reason that single mothers give for not marrying is: “I’m too poor to [...]
Streets without name – A geek in Japan
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In Japan, street are simply an empty space in between blocks, they don’t have an identity. However you can identify buildings following a 3 digit system: the first one indicates the district, the second one the block and the third one the building or house inside the block. It is a completely different, but perfectly [...]
Publishers Gild Books With ‘Special Effects’ to Compete With E-Books
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Martha K. Levin, the executive vice president and publisher of Free Press, the imprint of Simon & Schuster that published “The Iliad,” said the presentation sent “the message that even if you’re buying 90 percent of your books on your e-reader, this is the one that you want to have on your bookshelf.”
Why I love Walmart despite never shopping there
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But my esthetic and aspirational standards are those of a comparatively wealthy person even in U.S. terms, let alone world terms. To the people who use Walmart and belong there, Walmart is a tremendous boon that stretches their purchasing power, enabling them to have things that don’t suck.
Stuff
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I just discovered this 2007 article from Paul Graham. He said something that I’ve vaguely thought of before but I’ve never even come close to articulating it this well.
We all have lots and lots of stuff. We like to think that it’s valuable because we’ll use it one day. It’s not. It’s worthless.
What …
Book Review: Against Thrift | Shiny Objects
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Megan McArdle artfully skewers an entire genre: books that make us feel bad about buying things.
One of the running themes of the economist Robin Hanson’s excellent blog is that arguments like the ones found in these books are actually an elite-status proxy war. They denigrate the one measure of high-visibility achievement—income—that public intellectuals …
Review: TARDIS Eruditorum, Vol 1
It was utterly fascinating and has already given me a lot of insight into the show and how it works. I’m eagerly awaiting the publication of future volumes and have every intention of purchasing them as they’re released. Why not? I’m a sucker for really good literary criticism and a sucker for Doctor Who.
Steve Jobs: 1955-2011
Steve was richly blessed by God and we were all richly blessed by what he did, here on the Earth.
Can I Thank God for That?
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Kevin DeYoung posits an interesting question and a different way of thinking about Biblical “grey areas”.
I’ve learned over the years that the simplest way to judge gray areas in the Christian life like movies, television, and music is to ask one simple question: can I thank God for this? (We are to give …
Heinlein Defines Our World
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In the course of defending Robert Heinlein’s position on firearms from David Brin, Eric S. Raymond offers up a view on the staggering impact that RAH has had on the world we live in today.
(When time has given us perspective to write really good cultural histories of the 20th century, Heinlein is going …