I was browsing CommuterPage to figure out the best way to get to BWI for a trip this weekend, when I noticed that the front page was jam packed with links to editorials hectoring readers to approve a referendum increasing Virginia’s sales tax, with the revenue earmarked for various sorts of transportation infrastructure spending. Now, […]

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I’ve just listened to a semi-interesting radio interview with cognitive scientist Stephen Pinker about his new book The Blank Slate. That is to say, some of Pinker’s part was intersting — the callers alternated between totally brain dead, and pathetically desparate to appear erudite by name-dropping ancient philosophers with no real connection to the discussion. […]

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I’m officially infatuated with Invisible Radio, a sporadically broadcast webradio station that never fails to pump out lots of interesting sounds. Unfortunately, like lots of other online radio, they’ve been feeling the squeeze from new RIAA-sponsored legislation that would impose (retroactively!) a system of royalties from which traditional radio stations have always been exempted. The […]

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