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23 February 2002  

More Bjorn

Yet another good story on the Lomborg phenomenon.

04:11 PM |

My Ethical Philosopher Matches

According to this quiz, my ethical beliefs are most consistent with these philosophers:

  1. Aristotle (100%)
  2. Rand (96%)
Nothing to argue with there. But Augustine came in third. I don't know much about him except that he's a Christian saint. Should I be worried? (Via Megan McArdle)

02:34 PM |

Slobogoogling

For a little Saturday morning diversion, I decided to jump on the Slobogoogling bandwagon and expose the person behind a name from this Free Milosevic petition. My target:

      678. Marius Laza, Software Engineer, Canada

Turns out Laza is (or was) a graduate student in computer science at the University of British Columbia. The head of that department had occasion to take particular notice of Laza last summer when his use of ubc computers to post racist comments to newsgroups was protested. As a result, Laza was forced to apologize (twice) by the university.

Just one more example of the of the many thoughtful, decent citizens who signed the petition.

12:27 PM |