freedom just around the corner for you

There is an interesting post on Samizdata (a UK blog best described as libertarian or individualist in philosophy) about the complicity of Western companies such as Google in the crimes of totalitarian regimes, and particularly China :

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the stars are beginning to hide

This is an interesting NY Times article (via Slashdot) about how humans have successfully expanded on their millenia-long project to trash the Earth to now include the trashing of space around the Earth. Apparently we have now reached…

people tell me it’s a sin

The 21 somewhat deadly sub-sins (via BoingBoing).