Aughr’s Blog

• Calitics: Soapblox California :: Fear and Loathing in the Land of Disney
  Disney needs to stop abusing Anaheim.
  (tags: disney california politics)
• The Wisdom of Children
  Simon Rich pens a hilarious piece on the conversations from the perspective of children.
  (tags: humor new.yorker children)
• Make college admissions a crapshoot - Los Angeles Times
  A very interesting prescription for how to make college admissions less stressful.
  (tags: la.times college)
• USENIX 2000: The Challenges of Integrating the Unix of Mac OS Environments
  How the OS X team integrated the original Mac ideas and Unix.
  (tags: osx history mac unix)
• Funny Copyright Poster
  “I’ve just bought my favourite movie of all time on DVD from a shop. Now, I’ve got to sit through an unskippable anti-piracy advert…”
  (tags: copyright humor politics photos piracy drm)
• Researchers find what may be a new state of matter
  String-nets. Cool stuff.
  (tags: physics matter science)

• Johann Hari - A New Mission for the EU
  “Fifty years of peace is great, but it’s not enough. We need to define a new mission for the European Union.”
  (tags: europe european.union johann.hari)

• Running the Numbers: An American Self-Portrait
  Wow.
  (tags: statistics art visualization america)

• The new American witch hunt - Los Angeles Times
  Richard B. Krueger, a psychiatrist, writes about how the overly punitive punishment of sex offenders has become the “modern-day equivalent of a witch hunt.”
  (tags: latimes crime sex)

• Johann Hari - Review of ‘America Alone’ by Mark Steyn
  This is a superb essay by Johann Hari destroying Mark Steyn’s racism and wingnutiness in his new book.
  (tags: politics europe islam)
• Politics Lite: No Sacrifice, No Substance, No Success - New York Times
  Rory Stewart, a former British diplomat, condemns today’s issue-less politics of popularity in Britain.
  (tags: rory.stewart nytimes politics britain)

• Example LaTeX Template for Homework Assignments and Similar
  This could be useful.
  (tags: latex homework templates)

• Starbucks’ ‘venti’ problem - Los Angeles Times
  Daniel Gross writes about the expansion drive of publicly-held corporations and how it can lead to the loss of an effective brand.
  (tags: business expansion economy latimes)
• Is Israel Falling Apart?
  Is the government heading toward an implosion? This doesn’t look good.
  (tags: israel politics)

• Look Shiny » Blog Archive » Not Getting Things Done

• Pretty funny stuff.

• (tags: gtd humor productivity video)

• The Poor Man Institute » Blogger’s style guide for Civility and Seriousness

• You want to curse someone out? Why not instead say that they were responsible for the murder of Princess Diana? Isn’t that more civil?

• (tags: politics civility blog)

• Jason Rennie’s LaTeX tips and tricks

• Useful stuff.

• (tags: latex tips)

• X-Strike Studios presents: Sidequest

• An upcoming film parodying RPGs.

• (tags: humor rpg film)

• Health care in France - special support for veterans - AMERICAblog: A great nation deserves the truth

• Chris in Paris of AMERICAblog compares the French medical system to the American one using the example of veterans’ care.

• (tags: war healthcare health france usa veterans)

• Bizarro Phoenix Wright by *spacecoyote on deviantART

• OMG. This is great.

• (tags: phoenix.wright humor)

Automatically posted by del.icio.us.

• 1 - How the world really shapes up | the Daily Mail

• Cartograms of the world based on differing statistics. Amazing.

• (tags: world wealth life)

• 2 - May I Nominate Mary Bono For “Jackass Of The Week”? — Thought Palace

• Agreed. DRM and the current state of copyright law anger me to no end, and those furthering the corruption of the nobel purpose of copyright law are just as much of a problem.

• (tags: drm copyright)

• Eric’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Idea

• This blog is amazing: the guy has drawn reimagined Star Wars characters… as steampunk!

• (tags: steampunk scifi starwars art)

• Horse’s Mouth: Fussilade of Stand-Alone Stories Slammed Obama For “Gaffe.” So What About McCain?

• Greg Sargent hits it out of the park. Wouldn’t it be nice if the conservative machine treated remarks the same way no matter from which side they originated?

• (tags: politics media mccain obama)

• Kalalau Trail, Kauai on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

• Beautiful HDR photography.

• (tags: hawaii photos hdr)