BYCU
No time for blogging today, so I offer this six-pack of cool pics:
More issues
Thursday
Random
"Bubble Ball" is the king of the iPod Application universe. It has been
downloaded over 2 million times. The developer? A fourteen-year-old boy from
Utah
[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1348293/Robert-Nay-14-video-game-iPhone-app-Bubble-Boy-downloaded-2m-times.
Wednesday
Von Mises
I'm fifty pages into Human Action. Only 850 pages to go.
I'm impressed, to put it mildly. Of course, I went in expecting to be blown
away, so the book had a receptive audience, but still: it's awfully impressive
so far. His
Tuesday
Catholic Arts and Letters Weekly
Pedophiles. Abusers secretly moved to other posts. Rampant cover-up. Dang
Catholics! Oh wait. They're talking about the public schools. . . . more>>
[http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/01/a_priest_and_an_altar_boy_hah.html]
A giant in his time, bigger
Attention New York
My family and I are coming there this year. We are in the planning stages. We
plan to stay in mid-town Manhattan. Our first question: Will we be able to park
our 12-person Econoline van? It's 9-feet high, so parking garages are out of the
Monday
Announcing New Feature
I read over the weekend that Dennis Dutton died. Dutton was the creator of Arts
& Letters Daily [http://www.aldaily.com/], one of the best websites in the
cyberworld (which he sold in 2002 but continued to edit). For simple elegance
(published as a 18th-century
Something for Sunday Morning
“The rational creature cannot wish not to be happy.” St. Thomas Aquinas
Brews You Can Use
Johnny Horton Stuff
I know Anchorage is in southern Alaska, but I would've thought it was night time
at least 18 hours a day right now. No matter: They're hosting their 16th Annual
Great Alaska Beer & Barley Wine Festival
[http://www.alaskadispatch.com/culture/shop-
Thursday
Random Thursday
The MSM economic cheerleaders at CNBC say the housing market has entered the
Depression zone. Link [http://www.cnbc.com/id/41019790]. That's a significant
admission from an unlikely source. I appreciate the candor, but I really liked
this little piece of trivia: "The value
Wednesday
Kauffman, Soap, and Dirty Dollars
Bill Kauffman is great. In this piece
[http://www.amconmag.com/blog/ikes-last-stand/the-other-eisenhowers/], he writes
about Eisenhower's isolationist/pacifist family members. Interesting stuff, and
it ends with this point to ponder: "Since 1941, war has warped American