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42 Astoundingly Useful Scripts and Automations for the Macintosh linked on About Astounding Scripts

If you have a Macintosh and you want to get your retro on, take a look at 42 Astoundingly Useful Scripts and Automations for the Macintosh. These modern scripts will help you work faster and more reliably, and inspire your own custom scripts for your own workflow.

Reagan’s Lincolnian Revolution

Reagan provided an alternative to the assumption held by both parties that bureaucracy was superior to individual freedom.

The elephant in the nuclear power plant

Why is it waste if it’s still radioactive? Isn’t the whole point of nuclear plants to turn radioactivity into useful power?

The enduring hate speech of Stephen Douglas in Canada

If the right hasn’t changed much since Abraham Lincoln, the left hasn’t changed much since Stephen Douglas. They still believe that it’s their responsibility to control the rest of us.

Of (Laboratory) Mice and Men

If funding is your customer, the incentives are very different than if patients are your customer. Competition to meet bureaucratic definitions is inferior to competition to meet real human choices.

Building the Replica 1 Plus Apple 1 kit

The Apple 1 kit from Briel/ReactiveMicro is an amazing piece of history, and a lot of fun.

Spotting the wild Fascist

“…how do we prevent the genocidal horrors of the Nazi regime from ever recurring? …we’ll start with the roots of Italian Fascism. It originated as a kind of live-action role-playing game for disgruntled Italian WWI vets led by a charismatic war hero, aviator, and poet named Gabriele D’Annunzio. Compared to what it evolved into, early Italian fascism had a rather charming opera-bouffe quality about it—theoretical ideas that were incoherent to the point of surrealism, lots of prancing around in invented uniforms, and dosing of opponents with castor oil.”

The Collusion National Network

All collusion, all the time?

Science by consensus is barbarism

The scientific method is pure, distilled civilization. It is completely unnatural.

Back Seat Baby: Have airbags become a Rube Goldberg machine?

The classic prescriptive mandate is the airbag. Bulky, expensive, undeniably useful, and we have no idea what far better ideas airbags crowd out of our vehicles.