Homage to Icarus

I’ve fin­ished read­ing How to Lose Your Altruism How to Win Friends and Influence People, and the review is up. Also upgraded to Wordpress 2.7, although since I’m using my own cus­tom theme the changes will be all on the back­end.
I attempted to install OpenSolaris 2008.11 on my Macbook, which failed pretty spec­tac­u­larly. The problem […]

I’ve just ordered a Kindle and fin­ished a review of (warn­ing: spoil­ers, big-assed swastika on the front cover) They Thought They Were Free, a book about ordi­nary peo­ple in Germany who became Nazis that’s been on my list for a long while after it made the rounds on some of the lefty blogs I read.
As my […]

Yesterday, I read Greg Palast’s Armed Madhouse. On the one hand, it’s nice to know that I intu­itively under­stood the neo-conservative inva­sion plan and rea­son  —  the so-called “Plan B”  —  well enough to describe it as “glob­al­iza­tion by force” in a paper I wrote for a Political Economy course. It’s also nice to know the vaunted-but-ignored State Department […]