If you’re walking to the corner to catch a cab, and one whizzes by as you’re about halfway there, it will be the last cab for at least 15 minutes. Corollary to the Iron Law of Taxicabs: If you finally decide to try another corner, a cab will pass about ten seconds after you’ve left […]

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So I finally killed my old keyboard, and just want to put in a plug for it’s replacement, Logitech’s Internet Navigator. I don’t have much use for all the extra function keys, but it’s quiet, comfortable, and makes typing more pleasant.

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I should have some exciting news to post within the next couple of days… stay tuned.

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Various folks have linked to this New York Times piece in which various critical theorists glumly contemplate their own near-total irrelevance. In part, of course, this was inevitable. “Theory” was always eminently mockable, and since the peak of its influence in the mid 80s it’s been subjected to more than its share of well deserved […]

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Via (ahem) “Thomas Anderson” at Anarchismo, I see that England now has an honest-to-God superhero. It’s about time. Why don’t more people do this stuff, man? We’ve got enough rich eccentrics in this country. Surely in a culture so saturated with the superheroic archetype, one or two have gotten it into their heads to train […]

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Economist James D.Miller is practically frothing at the mouth over on NRO in response to a California district court ruling in favor of the makers of peer-to-peer clients Grokster and Morpheus. But he should calm down, take a deep breath, and take a second look at some of his arguments Miller makes mistake number one […]

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Joanne has a post expanding on some of my half-baked notions from that Reason piece.

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McCain-Feingold bites the dust… at least until round two.

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Gary Farber is posting again… abundantly.

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My piece from the May issue of Reason on distributed journalism and the Lott fiasco is now online. Also, see Mark Kleiman’s post on the latest developments in the ongoing saga if you haven’t already.

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