Day: January 18, 2012

A Missed Opportunity

Will Truman January 18, 2012

With Wikipedia down, Timothy Lee points out that this could be Wikipedia-alternative Citizendium‘s chance to shine. I...

All in a day’s work. IFRL-NaPP-Asia-rawpixel-id-461110

All in a day’s work.

David Ryan January 18, 2012

Per yesterday’s post, what 8 hours of boat building looks like.

Sullivan, Obama, and Elections IFRL-NaPP-Retro-36625257244_34a7dab5bf_b

Sullivan, Obama, and Elections

Ethan Gach January 18, 2012

Let me get this out of the way first. I like Andrew Sullivan, appreciate a lot of the...

Comment Deletion, Comment Policy, etc. IFRL-TLC-Scenery-GAPD-tate.vesuvius-in-eruption-with-a-view-over-the-islands-in-the-bay-of-naples-100

Comment Deletion, Comment Policy, etc.

Erik Kain January 18, 2012

A few quick points. Front page authors: it is absolutely against our comment policy to delete any...

On What Doesn’t Really Matter IFRL-Mindiv-Society-Marcia-Sculpting

On What Doesn’t Really Matter

Jason Kuznicki January 18, 2012

Philip Kitcher expresses a frustration I’ve also had with Derek Parfit: Consider the case that Parfit refers...

Rep. Jared Polis on his opposition to SOPA IFRL-TLC-Scenery-GAPD-altesnational.abbey-among-oak-trees

Rep. Jared Polis on his opposition to SOPA

Erik Kain January 18, 2012

The Colbert Report Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,Video Archive My interview with...

Why All Those Sites Are Dark Today IFRL-NaPP-Retro-800px-France_in_XXI_Century._Rolling_house

Why All Those Sites Are Dark Today

Jason Kuznicki January 18, 2012

Read this. It’s important.

Critiquing Andrew Sullivan’s Critique of Critiques IFRL-TLC-Scenery-krystian-piatek-1317350-unsplash

Critiquing Andrew Sullivan’s Critique of Critiques

Ryan Noonan January 18, 2012

Andrew Sullivan has written a long piece for the magazine version of Newsweek responding to the prevailing...

Squaring Up IFRL-TLC-Scenery-alexander-londono-319307-unsplash

Squaring Up

David Ryan January 18, 2012

This photo shows the starboard hull backbone, lined up on a zero mark (the blue tape), and...

Stillwater’s Challenge IFRL-Mindiv-alex-iby-434004-unsplash

Stillwater’s Challenge

Murali January 18, 2012

In the comments of my most recent post on abortion, Stillwater says that few people have non-contradictory...

Dark Matter in reply to InMD on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025Interesting. Thanks.
Jaybird on Saturday Morning Gaming: Hollow KnightAaaaaand the game is beaten. I collected all of the grubs and 39 1/2 charms. I googled what I needed…
Jaybird in reply to DensityDuck on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025He means those who have the stones to keep speaking truth to power in the face of the speech police.…
DensityDuck in reply to CJColucci on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025I dunno, maybe you could explain in more detail what you meant by "freedom of speech is for people w…
CJColucci in reply to DensityDuck on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025Um, no. Try reading.
DensityDuck in reply to Saul Degraw on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025Regardless of the ideological makeup of the overall Court (and opinions of certain posters here) you…
DensityDuck in reply to CJColucci on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025" But just as freedom of the press is for people who own one, freedom of speech is for people with t…
DensityDuck in reply to North on From Freddie de Boer: Abundance, Up To A Pointbro we're not asking for "all children to be above average", we're asking for "all children to be ab…
InMD in reply to Dark Matter on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025That is not accurate. His initial encounters with the courts stemming from the 2019 arrest indicate…
David TC in reply to InMD on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025Again, you cannot _possible_ believe that 'arrested for standing Hispanically in a Home Depot parkin…