Economist Tom Woods is well known for his book Meltdown, an Austrian/Free Market view of the 2008 financial collapse and its causes. In September of 2010, Woods spoke at Indiana University. You can view the entire playlist here.
Cyrus Sutton is a surfer. And he's reviewing Final Cut Pro X for Gizmodo. Why? Because he's one of the best surf flick directors in decades. His movies exude a summertime vibe I wish I could bottle up for winter. More »
what ground should I use for a simple DC circuit
Now, here's my question.
1) Is it correct that I have put the ground on negative terminal of a battery?
2) How's it working? I mean what's the essence of having that?
Like so many others, Denise Gamboa found the voice of the open road calling her name. Armed with her trusty camera, she quit her job and began a vagabonding lifestyle which definitely has been suiting her well. Her photographs and written thoughts are a testament to her dedication to this alternative path.
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Robert Holden on being ready to receive more happiness than you thought was possible.
Despite the recent spate of arrests on their side, Anon released 400MB of NATO data courtesy of big-time cybersecurity firm ManTech last night. This is their way of making good on a promise and reiterating that they "aren't scared anymore". More »
No Alcohol; No Gambling; No Music; No Porn; No Smoking; No Drugs
From Eric Dondero:
London and surrounding suburbs are being taken over by Islamic Jihadists.
"It's no longer your land. It's Allah's land... Holy shit, what's going on here... Coming to a neighborhood near you."
There has been little if any reporting by major media sources on the new Sharia Zones.
Continuing the ongoing saga that is outstanding pizza box engineering, Scott Weiner discovered a pizza box from Eataly that does it all: it keeps your pizza piping hot; it has vents for air flow; and it's completely recyclable. Awesome. [Boing Boing] More »
Sharia-compliant posters now dot London and surrounding suburbs
by Eric Dondero
The London Daily Mail reports July 28, "'No porn or prostitution': Islamic extremists set up Sharia law controlled zones in British cities"
Islamic extremists have launched a poster campaign across the UK proclaiming areas where Sharia law enforcement zones have been set up.
Communities have been bombarded with the posters, which read: ‘You are entering a Sharia-controlled zone – Islamic rules enforced.’
The bright yellow messages daubed on bus stops and street lamps have already been seen across certain boroughs in London and order that in the ‘zone’ there should be ‘no gambling’, ‘no music or concerts’, ‘no porn or prostitution’, ‘no drugs or smoking’ and ‘no alcohol’.
Islamist beliefs extreme polar opposite of Libertarianism
Libertarians are explicitly in support of the legalized gambling, free speech including explicit lyrics in music, adult pornography, prostitution, no smoking bans, and legalization of drugs.
A check of top libertarian websites show no other libertarian media, outside of this website and one other, covering or even mentioning this story.
There is nothing at the Libertarian Party website LP.org. None of the Ron Paul websites such as Daily Paul and Campaign For Liberty are covering the story. LewRockwell.com is silent. Cato.org is similarly mum. The most popular culturally libertarian site Reason.com, which regularly features legalize porno, free speech, prostitution, and drug issues has nothing on the London story. A check of smaller libertarian sites, such as NolanChart.org, The Humble Libertarian, or The Agitator (another one that emphasizes the civil liberties side), haven't said a word.
LINOs - Libertarians In Name Only?
Selective coverage perhaps? No doubt, if this had been a Christian Conservative group putting up such stickers in say Memphis, Denver or San Francisco, the outcry from such websites would be deafening.
Reason alone would be covering the story on the front page of their magazine, and as the header for their website. Dave Boaz, openly gay VP at Cato, would be screaming bloody murder at the "homophobic and sexually intolerant" Christians. Wes Benedict, Director at Libertarian Party HQ, would have issued a press release condemning the "Christian bigots," within hours of the story breaking.
But as it is, criticisms of Islamism and opposition to the Islamic agenda on repealing individual liberties, is not politically correct for these increasingly LINO (Libertarian In Name Only) sites and groups.
Of Note - Gates of Vienna, whose editor-in-chief and co-editor are die-in-the-wool self-described "libertarians," is one website that featured the London story. Oddly enough, GofV is not considered to be a "real libertarian" website by the others listed.
Photo right - London Daily Star via UK Democracy Forum
Last month I contemplated the staggering diversity of microbes in my bellybutton–an experience made possible by my participation in a survey of microbiome diversity carried out by scientists at North Carolina State University. At the time, I thought I was quite the host. I was informed there were 53 species living in my navel, some of which had never been seen on skin before and some of which were altogether new to science. I was even informed that I was a “wonderland.”
Well, the project is moving forward at quite a clip, and the scientists are starting to push more of their data online. Here you can see the species from the first 60 volunteers they’ve studied. The lists are coded by number–I’m B944. I appear to have lost a species so I’m down to 52. And 52 is, I’m seeing, nothing to blog home about. So far, the diversity champion is the anonymous owner of bellybutton B1288. 107 species! Now that’s a wonderland….
Nexus S users think they're so cool with their built-in NFC chips, but now there's an easy hack that anyone can do to enable NFC Payments on an iPhone 4 (among others). More »
Adding Balanced Budget Amendment key to reversal
From Eric Dondero:
The staunchly economic libertarians at the Club For Growth late Friday, reversed their earlier decision to go after any House Republicans who voted for House Speaker John Boehner's debt relief bill.
From The Hill "Club for Growth won't fight Boehner plan":
They had earlier promised to score any vote for his plan in their annual rankings as against the club's views, a warning sign that any supporters might have faced their well-funded wrath. But after Boehner added the balanced-budget amendment this morning, they issued a statement that said they would withdraw their opposition to it.
This represents a sharp turn-around.
On Tuesday, according to CNN Political Ticker, CFG issued a strongly worded statement opposed to the Boehner plan:
"The Club for Growth strongly opposes the Boehner Debt Limit plan," Club for Growth President Chris Chocola said in a statement. "It cuts almost nothing immediately, it caps only discretionary spending, and it does not require passage of a balanced budget amendment. Additionally, and perhaps more importantly, it simply doesn't fix the country's fiscal problems. We strongly oppose it, and we urge a no vote."
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I’ve mentioned in the past that the International Space Station is easily visible to the unaided eye when it passes through the sky. That means it’s not hard to get pictures of it. Unless you have pretty fancy equipment you’ll only see it as a bright dot of light, but that’s still pretty cool, and worth a try.
This shot of the ISS is from a webcam at the Tellus Museum of Science in Georgia, which is part of the All Sky Fireball Network. That’s a collection of four cameras in the US southeast looking for bright meteors; the idea being that if one is caught by more than one camera the path can be calculated in three dimensions, and a location of any potential meteorite found.
The webcam shot of the ISS was happenstance, but inevitable; when you have a camera that looks up all the time it’ll get a shot of the space station eventually! But you don’t have to guess; go Heavens Above, enter your latitude and longitude (which you can get from Google Earth) and it will tell you just when interesting things ...
Republican leadership "social Darwinists" against the poor, old, weak and sick?
From Eric Dondero:
Excerpted from the Miami Herlad, column, "Libertarian fanaticism and the debt limit" by Jose Gabliondo:
the libertarian fanaticism about the public debt... is becoming a national liability. It shows how ideas can matter in real life. The two main ideas at work here are small government and market primacy, both excellent values. The Republicans’ leadership, however, has stretched them in troubling ways.
For them, small government means social Darwinism and skepticism about all things public. So entitlement programs make them gag and then wax eloquent about rugged individualism.
No worries if you’re fit as a fiddle. Poor, old, weak, or sick? Tough.
Note - Mr. Gabliondo is a professor at Florida International Univ. a known hotbed for hard-left thinking in FL. He is also described as having advised the Treasury Dept. during the Bush administration.
From Eric Dondero:
As reported media-wide this morning, House Speaker John Boehner's debt relief bill passed by a slender margin of 218 - 210.
On Thursday, the vote looked dicey and unpredictable. But Boehner, (and Majority leader Eric Cantor), were able to make some last minute compromises to get enough Tea Party caucus members in line.
Libertarian Republicans split their decisions. Most prominently, Reps. Tom McClintock (CA), Ron Paul (TX), and Justin Amash (MI), voted "No." Joining Boehner in voting "Yay," were libertarian Republican Reps. Jeff Flake (AZ), Jack Kingston (GA), and Allen West (FL). 
Flake and West held out til late in the game. It is known Flake garnered major concessions on his pet issue of ending earmarks.
A number of libertarian-leaning Republican Reps also voted No including Joe Walsh (IL), Paul Broun (GA), Tim Huelskamp (KS), Chip Craavack (MN), and most prominently Michele Bachmann (MN).
Interestingly, Rep. Tim Scott of South Carolina, one of two GOP House freshman leaders and a longtime Tea Partyer, also voted No.
Note - There was no official libertarian Republican position on the Boehner vote. This website did not take a position, nor did the Republican Liberty Caucus. The Libertarian Party, whom we libertarian Republicans side with more often than not, did issue a press release vehemently opposing raising the debt limit, and critical of the Boehner plan.
Photos from top to bottom - Tom McClintock, Michele Bachmann, Allen West, Jeff Flake and Justin Amash.
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I am very excited to share The Seasteading Institute's first legal research paper, Charting the Course: Toward a Seasteading Legal Strategy (one of a two paper series).
Here's link to a video of a talk that Patri gave in Helsinki on May 13, 2011. Enjoy!
For the past half-year or so, The Seasteading Institute has been toiling away on an engineering study that's aimed at identifying the most promising configurations for early seastead communities. We've looked at three different hull configurations (ship, barge and semi-submersible) in a range of sizes to accommodate as few as 100 to as many as 5,000 seasteaders.
