Suddenly, I’ve begun to appreciate the genius of Amazon’s digital media strategy. With a Kindle, a TiVo set up for Amazon Unbox videos, and a sizeable MP3 downloading habit, I’ve used pretty much all their download services. And today I just realized that I have a central media library, where all the books, movies, television [...]
A new piece up today at Pajamas Media. Looking at it, I think I wish I’d have gone one graph deeper into the subject. What I really want to make clear, and state as strongly as possible , is that this shows arithmetically that taxes are not the answer. No tax scheme, no matter how [...]
It’s been a busy week, busy enough that I not only haven’t had much time to write, but I haven’t even had much time to find filler pieces. But the weekend is coming. New content should arrive tomorrow.
The tests are not completed until the prototype is destroyed. — G. Harry Stine
This is still on my mind today; its an extension of the thoughts below, and the Orwell piece “Politics and the English Language“, which I strongly commend to anyone who hasn’t read it in the last few weeks. I want to return to the maxim: as I suggested, I think that anyone who understands something [...]
I have often heard it said that any concept, no matter how complicated, can be explained to an interested and motivated 15 year old — if only you understand it yourself. There is a corollary I think people forget, however: if someone attempts to explain something, and doesn’t succeed, there can only be one of [...]
more cat pictures
With some of the current popular politicians about, there could be no better time to remind everyone of Orwell’s “Politics and the English Language”: If one gets rid of these habits one can think more clearly, and to think clearly is a necessary first step toward political regeneration: so that the fight against bad English [...]
Complexions
This is another one of these “commentary” category pieces which I suspect pushes the envelope of my intention to make Explorations an “aggressively non-political” blog. None the less, my intention is not political, at least in the sense that I don’t intent to make a position for either political party, and don’t accept the usual [...]