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Ayn Rand, Hugely Popular Author and Inspiration to Right-Wing Leaders, Was a Big Admirer of Serial Killer | AlterNet
february 2010 by bkerr
One reason why most countries don't find the time to embrace her thinking is that Ayn Rand is a textbook sociopath. Literally a sociopath: Ayn Rand, in her notebooks, worshiped a notorious serial murderer-dismemberer, and used this killer as an early model for the type of "ideal man" that Rand promoted in her more famous books -- ideas which were later picked up on and put into play by major right-wing figures of the past half decade
control-towers
tfyl
february 2010 by bkerr
The Bitch is Back: Books: GQ
december 2009 by bkerr
Fuck you, Ayn Rand.
Fuck you for turning some of the most open and interesting people I ever met into utopian dickheads.
Fuck you for injecting them with a sneering sense of superiority, and with the tautological belief that anyone who didn't "get it" was a jealous know-nothing—which, ipso facto, only proved that superiority.
And fuck you for prose so bad that the only way to measure it is with a meat scale.
There. I feel better.
But wait—Ayn, you know that letter I just got informing me that my equity line of credit is being frozen despite my perfect credit history, and despite the fact that I bought a house I could actually afford?
Yeah, fuck you for that, too.
rand
objectivism
religionist
control-towers
or
smokestack
Fuck you for turning some of the most open and interesting people I ever met into utopian dickheads.
Fuck you for injecting them with a sneering sense of superiority, and with the tautological belief that anyone who didn't "get it" was a jealous know-nothing—which, ipso facto, only proved that superiority.
And fuck you for prose so bad that the only way to measure it is with a meat scale.
There. I feel better.
But wait—Ayn, you know that letter I just got informing me that my equity line of credit is being frozen despite my perfect credit history, and despite the fact that I bought a house I could actually afford?
Yeah, fuck you for that, too.
december 2009 by bkerr
Wikipedia | User:Pseudo daoist/Religious Distros
september 2008 by bkerr
"Religion is a major force in society. Linux lends itself to niche markets. It was inevitable that the two find a place in which they can merge together."
wikipedia
linux
control-towers
distro
via:britta
september 2008 by bkerr
ArborWiki | Wireless Ypsi
february 2008 by bkerr
"Wireless Ypsi is not, in fact, broadcast from atop the Ypsilanti Water Tower."
arborwiki
ypsilanti
downtown
depot-town
wireless
ypsi
wifi
meraki
water-tower
not
control-towers
february 2008 by bkerr
Notional Slurry | Notes on departing the 2007 University of Michigan Entrepalooza Workshop
september 2007 by bkerr
"There are multiple breakout sessions, and the place is jammed with supposed entrepreneurs, and the whole thing is free. Chairs in the hallway are fucking empty during the sessions?! What does that say (cont.)"
umich
biz
events
design
conference
closedspace
fuckup
control-addicts
control-mobs
control-towers
september 2007 by bkerr
Inkling Markets Public Marketplace | Will Linux be demonstrated running on an Apple iPhone before September 1, 2007?
june 2007 by bkerr
Yes, but who cares? My DS experience implies that homebrew onscreen keyboards are the worst. Each one worse than the one preceding it.
inkling
prediction
markets
predictionmarkets
apple
iphone_old
linux
demo
freedom0
your
fruited
control-towers
june 2007 by bkerr
Ann Arbor District Library | Downtown Library will Open Wednesday at 1:00 PM
june 2007 by bkerr
Josie Parker, AADL director, sez: "I'm not sure where you are getting your information, but clearly you have not spoken with anyone who knows what is going on. Thanks for giving us your input."
annarbor
library
patron
smackdown
josie-parker
adminstrative
control-towers
petrochemical-arms
have-not-spoken-with-anyone-who-knows-what-is-going-on
i-has-an-input
june 2007 by bkerr
Los Angeles Times | Nowhere to go but up
may 2007 by bkerr
"Building a luxury home on a gritty back-alley patch measuring only 20 feet by 20 feet seemed preposterous on its face. But Neil Ablitt and his wife, Sue, just moved into ... a whimsical four-story tower that suggests the hand of Dr. Seuss."
losangeles
residential
construction
control-towers
via:britta
may 2007 by bkerr
The Voice of the Machines by Gerald Stanley Lee - Project Gutenberg
may 2007 by bkerr
vaguery sez: "The one book from 1906 you should read today."
machine
voice
societal
engines
control-towers
systems-of-the-world
free
book
via:vaguery
may 2007 by bkerr
Changes in Last Week (0) / Ann Arbor City - reaction to Pfizer leaving
april 2007 by bkerr
I want a script that will point me to the recent changes page of a new wiki one month after I first spot it. WikiIndex "NeedsLove" category.
annarbor
ghost
wiki
empty
recentchanges
pfizer
pfired
stick-around-annarbor
we♥accesscontrolled-wiki
control-towers
a2b3
april 2007 by bkerr
Harmony Remote Products > Logitech® Harmony® 880 Advanced Universal Remote
april 2007 by bkerr
George recommends this remote, he sez: "programmed on their web site, then you sync it to your remote via USB and their sync app."
logitech
remote
control
media
center
stateful
customization
control-towers
via:revgeorge
april 2007 by bkerr
RMAX1400 - Google Search
april 2007 by bkerr
Nathan recommends this programmable-over-USB mega remote.
sony
remote
control
media
center
stateful
customization
magic
s-s-s-spime
wand
control-towers
april 2007 by bkerr
Ron Suarez - Ann Arbor City Council Member | New Wiki - Ann Arbor’s reaction to Pfizer leaving
april 2007 by bkerr
Wiki is invitation-only, not a good sign.
annarbor
wiki
not
arborwiki
pfizer
pfired
stick-around-annarbor
we♥accesscontrolled-wiki
control-towers
a2b3
via:mahatm
april 2007 by bkerr
Popular Science | The Wright Stuff
march 2007 by bkerr
"Will Wright plays with evolution -- and Intelligent Design -- in his new magnum opus, Spore."
spore
games
metagames
meta
cybernetics
simulation
simcity
simeverything
control-towers
iterative
complex
entertainment
systems-of-the-world
sweet-science
versus
intelligent-design
teleology
interface
interaction
design
emergent
implicit
pervasive
narrative
play
evolution-itself-is-evolving
process-oriented
failure-based
learning
march 2007 by bkerr
PrideSource search "spring arbor university"
march 2007 by bkerr
Bunch of coverage on the Spring Arbor University Nemecek firing. Between the Lines promises an interview with Julie Nemecek in March 15 issue (14.11).
michigan
spring-arbor-university
bigoted
science-slapping
religionists
transgender
control-towers
firing
march 2007 by bkerr
PrideSource | Spring Arbor professor's journey to womanhood
march 2007 by bkerr
Yeah this is my hometown. Family friend (?) Randy Rossman sez: "If we allow you to continue these appearances that manifest your current transgender circumstance, we open ourselves to questions of inconsistency in upholding our Christian beliefs."
michigan
spring-arbor-university
bigoted
science-slapping
religionists
transgender
control-towers
firing
march 2007 by bkerr
Connecting Iowa | Demolishing the 89.5 tower
march 2007 by bkerr
"Toppling what’s left of the Classical 89.5 tower. The upper portion of the tower collapsed because of high winds and icing." Todd Mundt sez: "who knew it was this easy?"
npr
public
radio
control-towers
destruction
video
pull-the-pin
run-like-hell
via:toddmundt
march 2007 by bkerr
The Electronic Revolution II, by William Burroughs
february 2007 by bkerr
"Cutup techniques could swamp the mass media with total illusion." END OF THE WAR GAME
burroughs
immediast
control-towers
control-machines
word-falling
photo-falling
break-through-in-the-grey-room
cybernetics
feedback
media
social-media
metacrap
information
writing
lit
communication
process
language
language-is-a-virus-from-outer-space
end-of-the-war-game
february 2007 by bkerr
The Electronic Revolution I: Feedback from Watergate to the Garden of Eden, by William Burroughs
february 2007 by bkerr
"In the Electronic Revolution I advance the theory that a virus is a very small unit of word and image. I have suggested now such units can be biologically activated to act as communicable virus strains."
burroughs
immediast
control-towers
control-machines
word-falling
photo-falling
break-through-in-the-grey-room
cybernetics
feedback
media
social-media
metacrap
information
writing
lit
communication
process
language
language-is-a-virus-from-outer-space
end-of-the-war-game
february 2007 by bkerr
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