Is up and ready for reading pleasure at SamaBlog, home of Rob Sama. For future reference, here’s the permalink. Note the lovely art (!) and the snazzy snowflakes. Not surprisingly, I enjoyed reading the entries, particularly Karun Philip’s entry on The Matrix and Hayek. I especially like the way he discusses the process orientation and …
Coming soon to a theater near you: It’s been getting strong reviews since its premiere at the Toronto Film Festival in September, and the latest is this USA Today review, 4 stars out of 4. Of course, my favorite part of the review: “Firth’s quietly contained but emotionally tortured performance should erase any lingering memories …
This post is the follow-up to yesterday’s post on water infrastructure ownership and management, building on Arnold Kling’s original comment. See also Robert Prather’s post from yesterday, in which he helpfully provides links to his posts on the same subject. Water is a resource that has multiple uses ? human consumption (residential, commercial, and industrial), …
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Arnold Kling recently commented on this Tech Central Station article on water privatization, a crucial issue. Water is one of the most inefficiently and abominably allocated resources that we have, which is appalling given its scarcity and its importance. In the American Southwest we are already starting to see some of the negative effects of …
I finally got off my lazy posterior and signed up at The Truth Laid Bear’s Ecosystem, and I am happy to report that I am an Adorable Little Rodent. Must be the pert little nose … In any case, my recent post on spontaneous order in Hayek and its inspiration, Jonathan Wilde’s Catallarchy post on …
Is up at A Penny For …, and chock-full of interesting goodies that will keep me reading in my snippets of free time all week. Here is the direct link to the post. Scrolling down I noticed that Todd mentions being at Lambeau Field yesterday, where the Packers scored a great comeback to beat the …
This is a nice follow-on application of the ideas just articulated … over the past couple of days, the new EPA Administrator, Mike Leavitt, has been making his first public statements about the direction he intends to take at the EPA. The first issue he is tackling is mercury. This Chicago Tribune story (registration required) …
Jonathan Wilde’s superb post on the emergent order that has arisen online, with specific reference to weblogs, mentions a lot of themes that are important for understanding human institutions in general, and for my own work in electricity deregulation and restructuring. His analysis of Technorati as a mechanism for supporting unplanned order is bang on; …
And I don’t mean computer networks. First, this iinteresting article from Metropolis magazine on “disconnected urbanism”. The author is discussing how cellphones enable us to transcend physicality and still maintain communication relationships, and how our phone number is so much less geographically relevant than it used to be. The author is also concerned that cellphone …
The second Harry Potter movie is on short rotation on HBO, and I estimate that in the past week we’ve seen it about eight or so times; in fact, I had the major ephiphany in the paper I worked on over the holiday while sprawled on the floor during about the sixth viewing of it. …
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