Xen and The Art of Free Speech

Aside from the laugh­able idea of “mil­i­tantly” sup­port­ing any­thing with a blog post, Miguel sim­ply noted that these peo­ple exist, have writ­ten a book, and will be doing the speaking-tour-thing near him. Does he agree with the con­tents? (shakes eight-ball) Signs point to Yes. Is he free to do so? Also yes. Are you free to ignore …

Fool Me Once

For any­one who wants to han­dle dynamic DNS (either in con­junc­tion with DHCPd or not) with Bind and absolutely hates the ver­bosity of nsup­date, here’s a shell script which han­dles the common-cases of adding and remov­ing: Forward/reverse entries CNAMEs The com­mand line argu­ments are –k (privkey) –a (action) –h (host­name) –i (ipaddr) –c (cname) –d …

More of Thomas Sowell

I’m with Robert Love: end those damned agri­cul­tural sub­si­dies, and lower the prices of food. After all, it’s not like the U.S. has a tragic his­tory with over-farming and both eco­nomic and ecolo­log­i­cal destruc­tion, all fol­low­ing the one-two punch of “market-oriented” eco­nomic poli­cies and a hith­erto unprece­dented heat wave. In that vein, here’s Mr. Sowell (II, …

Train Of The Damned

[I’ll prob­a­bly end up deliv­er­ing this onstage either tomor­row or next week.] It’s 9:28 PM Commuter train of the damned Slaving away for machines Which do our think­ing for us Which is what this is all about… Evolution… It’s 9:32 PM Commuter train of the damned Soon to be board­ing A motly crew of the damaged …