BlogKC directs us to a NYT article on how Starbucks has lost its way and one Kansas City coffee shop has shown them whose boss. I have visited Broadway Cafe, and it does have the tasty coffee neighborhood shop appeal down to a T. A tasty T infact. Tasty coffee + tasty prices = […]
Entries from January 2008
Broadway KC
January 31st, 2008 No Comments
Tags: capitalism · coffee · technology
Roundup 001
January 30th, 2008 No Comments
ARI Publishes Memo to Bill Gates: The Cause of Third-World Poverty Is Not Capitalism, But Lack of Capitalism - ARI as clearly as ever puts it to Gates. The title says it all. Where capitalism does not exist, poverty does.
This thought occurred to me earlier today. With Guiliani out and McCain in, what would […]
Tags: capitalism · dvd · politics · Review · technology
The Most Techie Prez?
January 29th, 2008 No Comments
Who is the most internet/tech friendly president? (video) Techcrunch Reports: Their official endorsement for each party are Barack Obama and John McCain. The article isn’t really profoundly breaking in any shape or form, but instead, connects the dots from the typical techie’s beliefs regarding technology and the stated positions of the candidates.
The main issues:
Internet Tax
Yeah, […]
Tags: 2008 · capitalism · election · politics · technology
Books that make you dumb!
January 28th, 2008 No Comments
HA!
Website http://booksthatmakeyoudumb.virgil.gr/ has taken Facebook data to a hilarious level. By taking the average SAT scores of schools and the top 10 most popular books at those schools and combining them, he created a graph displaying the favorite books of based on SAT scores! LOL!
Of note, “The Holy Bible” comes in as one of […]
Tags: books · facebook · objectivism · technology
CISC CON 2008
January 28th, 2008 No Comments
Last summer, I had the wonderful pleasure of attending a three-day event called “Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged and the Moral Foundations of Capitalism” hosted The Clemson Institute for the Study of Capitalism. And now, the applications are up for Summer 2008!
The whole event was completely free and hosted on Clemson’s beautiful campus. […]
Tags: capitalism · objectivism · philosophy