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Ideas, ideas.

Hold My Record Wow, this is in league with the million dollar home page and the lady that had advertising tatooed to her forehead (sidenote: found this and thought it was somewhat related and definitely interesting). There are some very interesting ideas on how to make money emerging. This guys offering to legally change his [...]

Are you scared yet?

I’m scared.  But not of terrorism.  I’m scared of the Patriot Act and the Defense Authorization Act and all the other Acts and legislation that are slowly eroding our founding principles as well as our basic liberties and rights. Blueprint for Dictatorship – antiwar.com “America is headed for a military dictatorship – and recent legislation [...]

Politics and Web 2.0 Quote

I found this resounding interestingly true to me. I guess politics are, like web2.0, all about gradients, not two-tone layouts in which things are either fuschia or cornflower2. And a false sense of user participation. And AJAX, and made-up words that facilitate the ownership of a domain name with five or fewer letters. Wait, what? [...]

I’m £1,000,000.00 Richer!

I can’t believe it!  I just received this email straight from the company that is processing Coca-Cola’s promotions.  I’m so excited because I didn’t even enter this contest and yet I won!  All I have to do is contact the ‘fiduciary agent immediately’.  I’m sure they will need some personal/baking information so that I can [...]

“I am a most unhappy man.” – Woodrow Wilson

Woodrow Wilson signed into effect the Federal Reserve Act on December 23, 1913. And said the following just six years later. “I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is now controlled by its system of credit.We are no longer a government by free opinion, no longer [...]

Milton Friedman on Limited Government

With the recent passing of Milton Friedman, there has been a lot of information springing up about him. I found this video on digg.com (direct link to video here) and thought I should try and get the word out as much as possible. If you’re at all interested in it, believe me you won’t be [...]

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