Archive for August 14th, 2008
Sonos Still Sucks
Sonos is back with a hardware refresh of its products, and the reviews of it are driving me up the wall, because both Sonos’s website and the reviews fail to admit the single biggest drawback to the product — the wireless controller has a hard limit of 65,000 tracks it can access. In practice, the [...]
Spencer for Hire
Writing in Reason Magazine, Damon Root attempts to rehabilitate the image of “social Darwinist” Herbert Spencer. Root’s article is based on a forthcoming article by Princeton University economist Tim Leonard who blames Spencer’s poor reputation on historian Douglas Hofstadter.
Hofstadter was a socialist, and so the free market capitalist Spencer was a perfect villain, especially when [...]
The Problem With Atheism
Ran across this article about a gathering of athesits in Ohio thanks to the No Countries, No Religion blog.
Lyndsey Teter of The Other Paper writes of the gathering,
“A lot of people have been waiting for some event like this to come along,” said Alexander Loeb, a 31-year-old Columbus resident and atheist.
“It’s like being in the [...]
Edith Keeler - The Action Figure
Normally, I only collect comic book-related action figures. The past few months, though, the local comic book store has been clearancing out its inventory of action figures and they’ve apparently brought a bunch of stuff out that they had in storage. So I’ve been able to pick up a lot of Star Trek TOS figures [...]
Why I Hate Dick Meyer
National Public Radio’s editorial director of digital media, Dick Meyer, has written a book called Why We Hate Us which apparently is one long screed against the rise of individualism in America (did I mention he works for NPR?)
Anyway, NPR interviews him about his book and this comes out,
“The 1960s was a symbolic turning point,” [...]
Mattel’s DC Funkeys
As if Batman Cosbabies weren’t enough, now Mattel has announced it will release a series of DC Funkeys in 2009.
