Made a commitment today - signed up for a pass for the office's bldg bicycle parking room.

Hackers 1, NY Times 0

NY Times spends $50 million to build a paywall, hackers beat it already with 4 lines of javascript. http://bit.ly/hnztQ4

RIP Pinetop Perkins

Switched to playing piano after an angry woman swung a blade at him and cut the tendons in his arm and he couldn't play guitar no more. Played blues with Sonny Boy Williamson, Muddy Waters, B.B. King. Ate cheeseburgers and smoked till the day he died at age 97.

Chicago Sun-Times obit

Chicago Tribune obit

Youtube - Got My Mojo Working

Who knew?

the same guy created both T.G.I. Friday and Smith & Wollensky?

A Cocktail Party In The Street: An Interview With Alan Stillman

Back in the good old days before the New Deal . . .

people got along fine without government handouts like welfare and food stamps?

BBC News - Is squirrel the perfect austerity dish?

When somebody says "if there's no jobs where you are, just move. . . "

this must be the vision they have:

Workers hopscotch across USA for temp checks - USATODAY.com

I don't think "serfdom" means what you think it means

Have the Glenn Beck followers who are buying up Hayek's The Road to Serfdom got to page 148 yet?

Where, as in the case of sickness and accident, neither the desire to avoid such calamities nor the efforts to overcome their consequences are as a rule weakened by the provision of assistance — where, in short, we deal with genuinely insurable risks—the case for the state’s helping to organise a comprehensive system of social insurance is very strong . . . . But there is no incompatibility in principle between the state's providing greater security in this way and the preservation of individual freedom . . . . Wherever communal action can mitigate disasters against which the individual can neither attempt to guard himself nor make provision for the consequences, such communal action should undoubtedly be taken.

Friedrich Hayek, notorious Obamacare socialist