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Something Beautiful

As I sit here at the computer in a room on the second story, there is a window to my back that overlooks a panoramic view of this area of the city. There is a nearby baseball stadium that regularly shoots off spectacular fireworks displays at the end of winning games. The booms are exaggerated by echoes off of the ridge that the house is on. Tonight, there is a massive thunderstorm looming across the horizon a dozen or so miles away. As the fireworks explode into sparkling orbs, bright atmospher
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The Sociology Of The Ayn Rand Cult

http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard23.html   I find this interesting because I love the writing of Ayn Rand and Nathaniel Branden. Ultimate irony on several levels.
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Spin

Geez, I seem to be turning into a subversive propaganda syndication. Weee! No really, I found this fascinating. Ever wonder what politicans talk about when they think the camera isn't rolling?   http://www.brasscheck.com/videos/spin.html
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Keep Your Mouth Shut

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/5034100.stm   This scares the hell out of me. How come this is the only solution concieved to address the issue of cases being filed by disgruntled workers posing as legitimate whistle-blowers? Now the truthful people whose personal honour and principles do not allow them to remain silent in the face of corruption will be stifled. I thought the Bill of Rights was designed to protect citizens from the government. How many more rulings will be made to protect c
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I Hate Grass

I have some advise for anyone who will take it - do not buy a house on a 1/4 acre lot that is mostly covered in grass lawn, unless you are a lawn freak or have the finances to hire someone to maintain it.   There is street bordering three sides of the property, since I am at an intersection and on the edge of a cul-de-sac, and the lawn runs front, side and rear of the house. Anyways, one section is overrun with root suckers from a quaking aspen, another part is continuously eaten bare by the l
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Google's Compromise

Google agrees to China censorship.   Some of the censored topics: Tiananmen Square Massacre Taiwan's Democracy   The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles. - Ayn Rand   Google's Motto: "Don't be evil."
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Big Dump

Sounds pretty sick, right? Actually, BigDump is a staggered MySQL dump importing script. Anyone who has loaded a large database backup, transported a large database to a new host, or made a mirror test database knows how challenging it can sometimes be if you administrate remotely without using shell access.   Fortunately, this script makes it a complete snap. Instead of breaking the SQL file into chunks that wouldn't cause a PHP timeout, then loading each one manually, I let this thing run wh
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Rofl!

China Defends Internet Controls   How transparent is this guy? I'm amazed that the people who witnessed this briefing did not laugh in his face at the contradictory stupidity that he spewed forth. While I agree that the U.S. government is over-stepping its power wrongly in some cases for the sake of its citizen's protection, you cannot correlate the freedom of private enterprises to censor their own productive work to the act of forcing them against their will to censor certain topics.   "H
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The Haps In October

To recap my month...   I read Choke by Chuck Palahniuk and The Informers by Bret Easton Ellis. I enjoyed Choke more than most of the books I've been reading lately. I've been slowly reading my way through The Virtue of Selfishness by Ayn Rand for several months and pondering it while working during the day. I've also been slowly completing After the Ice by Steven Mithen. I would highly recommend this book to anyone curious about human pre-history.   I've spent copious hours of my free time w
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Google Video

After seeing a few of the funny/strange/impressive things that Vig has found on Google Video I decided to waste some time searching around and I found some excellent videos of some of my favorite music WEE!!!!   Porcupine Tree - Trains, Start of Something Beautiful, Blackest Eyes   Opeth - Closure, The Drapery Falls   In Flames - System   Depeche Mode - Precious   Meshuggah - New Millenium Cyanide Christ <<LMFAO!!!
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E.u.s.s.r.

I've been reading things here and there about the EU mandating, on penalty of an incredible fine, that Microsoft ship its own product Windows without Microsoft's own media player and to reveal parts of its programming code to rivals. Microsoft has already settled with the U.S. Justice Department, revealing code and allowing PC makers and conumsers to hide the bundled software. All this in the name of 'fair competition'.   This isn't just about Microsoft, it's about property rights. Personally
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Survivor By Chuck Palahniuk

I recently finished reading this book, and I have to say that at first I was almost disappointed with the ending and that something really bothered me about it. In fact, I kept thinking about it for a couple of days and realized that when the method of narration and the nature of the main character is taken into consideration, the story becomes something that is opposite of what the words in the book describe. This is the first time I've noticed that the physical method of delivery of a book can
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What The Hell? Again...

The more I look into Referendum C, the more it blows my mind. I can't understand how someone would want to support this, and if they do... there's nothing keeping them from donating more of their own money to taxes.http://www.taxfoundation.org/publications/show/316.htmlhttp://www.freedomworks.org/informed/issue...p?issue_id=2264
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The Daily Grind

I've recently discovered a new situation to test my patience. I started entry-level at my unspeakable dayjob... after a promotion to a different position, I've now been 'promoted' to a position managing the 'entry-level' department. I don't think there is a better situation to be able to witness the overwhelming lack of competence and work ethic of the average American male.It actually saddens me to see these guys who bounce from job to job, never grasping the idea of 'earning', unable to use se
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And I'm Spent!

The forum upgrade is finally done after many hours of testing and preparation. I'm happy with how smoothly it went... in fact I've never had so little trouble with a script upgrade.   Thanks Invision! /high five
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I Take It Back

The upgrade wasn't as smooth as I thought. Apparently, in the old forum version, the post formatting was saved with each post in the database and it does not get updated along with the upgrade. So... I spent a few hours writing and testing a script to go through each post and replace certain pieces of code and HOPEFULLY everything is solved.   Anyone interested in getting the script for their own upgrade can just PM me.
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The Lance Thrower By Jack Whyte

Like many people, I found the first few books in the Camulod Chronicles to be exceptional but I lost a little bit of interest in the latter books of the series. Not that any of the books were less than great, they were worth every penny in my opinion. It's just that the first books were so remotely distant from anything 'Arthurian' and so intimate with the lives of the Romans that the story was centered on.   Although the stories in subsequent volumes are intriguing and well written, it seems
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What The Hell?

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/a...us/tax_tussle_2I find it frightening that the most obvious solution for lack of efficacy from my state government is to just use more money. Maybe if I don't budget my income and use it wisely, my boss will just give me all his additional revenue for a few months. I'm pretty sure that would teach me how to use money wisely.
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I Concur

I recently read an article by Nathaniel Branden that nicely articulated a mass of something that has been in my mind, of which I could only grab bits and pieces when I attempted to understand it as a whole.   http://www.nathanielbranden.com/catalog/ar...untability.html
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Business Plan Archive

http://www.businessplanarchive.org/ An excellent use of history!   BTW, I still hate grass. I love the rain, but the weeds are just going crazy!
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Digital Maoism

http://edge.org/documents/archive/edge183.html   An interesting read for me, adds more perspective to what I do online.
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Maoist Roots

Here's another little excerpt gleaned from the Underground History of American Education, recounting the influence, in China, of the same prominent ideologues that influenced much of our educational system.   From 'Education and the Philosophy of Experimentalism', John Childs - 1931
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The Pinpoint Search

What is privacy?   http://www.reason.com/news/show/117074.html   Also, I picked up a hardcover of Steven Pressfield's 'The Virtues of War' for $6!! Woooo!
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