http://bolditalic.com/quotulatiousness/ quotations web site (note: relocated to new URL, June 23/09). Other topics include wine, military news, economics, history, libertarianism, and other random things which happen to strike my fancy. Backup site is at http://quotulatiousness.blogspot.com/ (if there are no posts showing, hit the backup blog for explanation). Comments have been turned off, as the spam was getting too much to handle. Comments can be emailed to me (Quotulatiousness AT gmail DOT com) for posting.]]> en-us 2009-07-02T00:01:13-05:00 http://bolditalic.com/quotulatiousness_archive/005549.html Various links of potential interest: Salamander Discovery Could Lead to Human Limb Regeneration Maybe this time it's different: Sustainable Biofuel, Canadian edition The Minnesota Vikings rank 89th of 122 in ESPN's "Ultimate Standings". Toronto's hockey team? 120th. Obama's Top Five... Randomness Nicholas 2009-07-02T00:01:13-05:00 http://bolditalic.com/quotulatiousness_archive/005550.html With the recent turmoil in Iran, the song "Shah of Shahs" has a very interesting resonance.... Media Nicholas 2009-07-01T23:18:59-05:00 http://bolditalic.com/quotulatiousness_archive/005548.html Robert Higgs includes a lengthy excerpt from a 1939 book by Raymond Moley called After Seven Years. Moley was a close adviser to President Roosevelt, but became disillusioned during the early part of Roosevelt's first term. This excerpt is an... Economics Nicholas 2009-07-01T20:00:31-05:00 http://bolditalic.com/quotulatiousness_archive/005547.html USA Nicholas 2009-07-01T19:33:08-05:00 http://bolditalic.com/quotulatiousness_archive/005546.html By way of a quick link from The Agitator, the wonderful world of "There, I Fixed It:... Randomness Nicholas 2009-06-30T15:53:56-05:00 http://bolditalic.com/quotulatiousness_archive/005543.html I'm with Jeff Jarvis: Good God. The scary thing here is not necessarily that we will see some new federal law requiring that the L.A. Times give expressed written consent every time I link to one of its pieces,... Quotations Nicholas 2009-06-29T09:43:39-05:00 http://bolditalic.com/quotulatiousness_archive/005542.html Emma Byrne has taken a 2007 essay by Cory Doctorow and illustrated it with photos of some of the disturbingly large number of CCTV installations in Britain today. Download the PDF here. "Snitchtown: the photo essay" is a book of... Liberty Nicholas 2009-06-29T09:00:29-05:00 http://bolditalic.com/quotulatiousness_archive/005544.html USA Nicholas 2009-06-28T10:20:24-05:00 http://bolditalic.com/quotulatiousness_archive/005541.html Gerard Vanderleun sent this tweet last night, which ideally captures the destiny of California: "The salvation of Calif. will be partition. The south gets Hollywood and Tiajuana. The North: All the water and marijuana." Update: Bonus USA twitterage from Ghost... USA Nicholas 2009-06-27T14:35:05-05:00 http://bolditalic.com/quotulatiousness_archive/005540.html It's not a movie I was ever likely to see, so it took a really amazing review to catch my attention: Critical consensus on Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen is overwhelmingly negative. But the critics are wrong. Michael Bay used... Media Nicholas 2009-06-26T12:54:04-05:00 http://bolditalic.com/quotulatiousness_archive/005539.html Making the rounds at the office today: DarkWaterMuse: Here we go, another ploy at mind control: 'Stoned wallabies make crop circles'. No doubt financed by elitist US conservatives who continue to perpetrate the crime of burring the truth about supernatural... Randomness Nicholas 2009-06-26T10:45:27-05:00 http://bolditalic.com/quotulatiousness_archive/005538.html Military Nicholas 2009-06-25T16:11:57-05:00 http://bolditalic.com/quotulatiousness_archive/005537.html If you see spirals of green, pinkish-orange, and blue, you'll want to get your eyes checked . . . the "green" and "blue" are actually the same colour.... Science Nicholas 2009-06-25T15:59:26-05:00 http://bolditalic.com/quotulatiousness_archive/005536.html I wrote this article on Monday June 22, 2009, in preparation for a strike at the LCBO. I know it sounds funny that I would say 'I was hoping for a strike' (even if it was going to be... Quotations Nicholas 2009-06-25T08:21:32-05:00 http://bolditalic.com/quotulatiousness_archive/005535.html I know very little about Iran, so I depend on informed folks to provide me with sufficient information to understand some of the issues at stake. This is a very interesting look at what may come next, and why: What... Middle East Nicholas 2009-06-24T12:16:04-05:00