Gerry Canavan

the smartest kid on earth

Saturday Night Links

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* The headline reads, “Glenn Beck Building Ayn Rand-Inspired Utopia.”

* Grief for Aaron Swartz: The Truth about Aaron Swartz’s “Crime.” Prosecutor as bully. How to Get a Job Like Mine.

* Our society should be selecting for the Aaron Swartz’s of this world. Instead, generous and ethical behavior, especially when combined with technical brilliance, turns out to be maladaptive, indeed lethal.

* Aaron Bady saw Zero Dark Thirty.

* Quentin Tarantino talks to himself.

* Movie pictograms.

* And the US Treasury agrees with me about the trillion-dollar coin. It’s enough to make me rethink my whole position…

Written by gerrycanavan

January 12, 2013 at 9:16 pm

Posted in Look at what I found on the Internet

Tagged with Aaron Swartz, Alien, Ayn Rand, bullies, Django Unchained, film, Glenn Beck, JSTOR, platinum-coin seigniorage, politics, reverse Utopias, Tarantino, the debt, the deficit, true crime, Zero Dark Thirty, zunguzungu

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Third Aaron Swartz link broken.

I also recommend the eulogies of Swartz by Doctorow at boingboing, by Pearlstin at the Nation, and by Farrell at crooked timber.

Stephen Frug

January 12, 2013 at 9:31 pm

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…ok, you linked Pearlstein. Missed that.

Stephen Frug

January 12, 2013 at 9:33 pm

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- I linked Cory’s earlier too, this morning. But I missed Farrell:
  
  http://crookedtimber.org/2013/01/12/remembering-aaron-swartz/
  
  gerrycanavan
  
  January 12, 2013 at 9:35 pm
  
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