January 2011
6 posts
Ayn Rand took government assistance while decrying... →
Noted speed freak, serial-killer fangirl, and Tea Party hero Ayn Rand was also a kleptoparasite, sneakily gobbling up taxpayer funds under an assumed name to pay for her medical treatments…
Javascript in Ten Minutes →
submitted by schnuck to programming [link] [153 comments]
Ted Talks, Remixed →
by Jacob Goldstein Finally: Somebody put some beats behind Ted talks. Asen Alex Tabarrok VS Jimmy Smith by asenasen Alex Tabarrok is an econ…
Snow geometry →
“Linkage” is a technical/mechanical name for a relatively simple concept that’s played a big role in daily life since the Industrial Revolution. Imagine four rigid bars of different…
Stephen Colbert on Limbaugh's ching-chong moment →
Just when you thought that everything that could be said about Rush Limbaugh’s ching-chong-chop-suey impersonation of Chinese Premier Hu Jintao had been said, here comes Stephen Colbert…
Jon Stewart on Toxic Political Discourse →
He is still the most incisive thinker on the American media machine:
I do think that its important for us to watch our rhetoric, I do think that its a worthwhile goal not to conflate our…