Economist Dean Baker takes on the idea of “small government conservatives” with his free book The Conservative Nanny State. I just finished this and it’s great. Does a great job of explaining that conservatives love big government if it’s redistributing wealth to the rich.
There has been much wailing and gnashing of teeth in iPhone app developer circles around how successful 99 cent apps are, how biased apple’s distribution system is toward cheap apps, and how hard it is to sell finely crafted complex applications for which developers have to ask for more money.
My initial reaction to almost all …
If you haven’t checked it out yet, give yourself 10 minutes and read through Errol’s latest blog for the NYT. He sits down with 3 photo editors and discusses photos of bush with them.
Errol always has interesting opinions about both film and photography, and I’m always entranced by his examination and interpretation of photography. …
Recently I’ve had more free time than is reasonably good for me, and decided to look into the current state of “canal phones”. For the past 5 years or so, I’ve used the Sony MDR-EX71s both at work and at home and I’ve never really had any issue with them. I got them …
If you haven’t seen the link yet, check out Hype Magazine’s 2008 zeitgeist.
I’ve been craving some new music action recently, and I haven’t heard of a large number of these bands, so in an effort to keep up my indie street cred, I’m going to try and make my way through each of these albums …
Now that he’s leaving office, Bush is dropping the cowboy act that he used to con the yokels into believing he was just an average guy like them. This is follows Bush saying the Bible probably isn’t literally true now that he no longer needs the evangelicals. Ahhh liars. But, but Clinton …
Slightly before the holidays I picked up the Canon 5DmkII as a replacement to my original 5D. The 5D is still working like a champ, and I have no objections to its performance for the type of photography I do. It still takes amazing full frame images.
But the mkII offered some very concrete …
There’s a reason Paulson didn’t want oversight. Treasury won’t answer questions? That’s a shock.
The Holidays were a mellow time in the life of Joe. I took 2 weeks off of work and just sort of decompressed. Good times were had by all.
I played some games online with Doug, spent a little time with the big swede and hung out on Christmas day with some friends from …