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

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.

"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."

"Wireless Ypsi is not, in fact, broadcast from atop the Ypsilanti Water Tower."

"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.)"

Yes, but who cares? My DS experience implies that homebrew onscreen keyboards are the worst. Each one worse than the one preceding it.

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."

"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."

vaguery sez: "The one book from 1906 you should read today."

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.

George recommends this remote, he sez: "programmed on their web site, then you sync it to your remote via USB and their sync app."

Nathan recommends this programmable-over-USB mega remote.

Wiki is invitation-only, not a good sign.

"Will Wright plays with evolution -- and Intelligent Design -- in his new magnum opus, Spore."

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).

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."

"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?"

"Cutup techniques could swamp the mass media with total illusion." END OF THE WAR GAME

"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."