On my shelf for several years, I recently read Ron Merrill’s book, The Ideas of Ayn Rand. I walked away with one key insight. Most of the book is a rehash of her history and her philosophical work. It doesn’t hurt to refresh yourself on important ideas, but I don’t feel like I learned much [...]
Archive for 2009
Obama’s Appeal to Emotionalism
March 6th, 2009
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Charles Krauthammer has an editiorial up on RealClearPolitics today titled Deception at Core of Obama’s Plans. He argues that Obama offered up non sequiturs for reasons why our economy is rapidly declining. There are any number of reasonable explanations for the downturn (too much money given out by the Fed, irresponsible lending, etc) but Obama’s [...]
Automatic Album Cover Game
March 5th, 2009
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In the past few weeks there was a game/meme going around on Facebook that instructed you to put together an imaginary (record) album cover by randomly selecting text from wikipiedia and images from flickr. Of course, it occurred to me to write a program to do it. But it took Lee Springer nudging me to [...]
No More Bailouts: Appearance with a Super Genius
February 7th, 2009
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John Villarreal captured me on his YouTube show. The topic is the “Porkulus” bill going through the senate right now.
New MySpace Apps: Random Band Names and Random Advice
January 22nd, 2009
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I now have two apps live on MySpace, Random Advice and Random Band Names. The core functionality is exactly the same as what’s on Leon’s Random Generators. Both of them place content on your MySpace profile. You can see them in action on my profile page, myspace.com/leonatkinson. It’s somewhat obtuse to get the apps on [...]
