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Jimmy Wales: Compassionate Objectivism
Mr. Wikipedia fields the question on how he feels about not being fantastically wealthy. A very interesting take for a Rand man:
Lawrence Lessig on Institutional Corruption
It’s Thanksgiving: let us talk healthcare, government corruption, gift corruption, and oil tanker spills.
You should have plenty of time for this video today, and it will make for excellent table talk. I suggest raising issues in between main and dessert courses, where your audience is captive: fat and sated. They will want to get away, [...]
Shepard Fairey: Give and Take
Let’s do the Shepard Fairey thing real quick. Oldie but a goodie.
In April, Fairey preemptively sued the AP and the AP is counter suing him, on matters of copyright and fair use. It’s over the Obama image–you might have seen it:
In this case, Shep is playing the little guy.
Unfortunately, somewhere during the fact based (not [...]