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• "Property is Theft!" book launch in London. Shawn P. Wilbur, Two-Gun Mutualism & the Golden Rule (2011-04-15). [From Iain McKay] Freedom Bookshop is hosting the book launch of”Property is Theft! A Pierre-Joseph ProudhonAnthology”. This is the new comprehensive anthology of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon’s writings published by AK Press. Proudhon was the first person to call themselves an anarchist and his ideas on property, state, exploitation, workers self-management, federalism… (Linked Saturday 2011-04-16.)

• Translation From MS-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Dean Hachamovitch's "Native HTML5!!!@@e2;20ac;b3; announcement. Mark, dive into mark (2011-04-15). [Original] Browsers that use modern operating systems more directly deliver better experiences. Browsers that compromise (by spreading across too many OSes and OS versions) face challenges. We can't decide if we want IE to drive Windows adoption or Windows to drive IE adoption. The best HTML5 is native to the… (Linked Sunday 2011-04-17.)

• $2b < $700.1b. drunkenatheist, Drunkenatheist (2011-04-08). From CNN: Washington (CNN) — Democrats and Republicans narrowly averted a partial shutdown of the federal government Friday night, agreeing on a budget deal and a short-term funding extension little more than an hour before the clock struck midnight and time ran out. The new funding extension, which cuts spending by… (Linked Thursday 2011-04-14.)

• Excellent ACLU piece on street harassment. drunkenatheist, Drunkenatheist (2011-04-11). Today will be different. I first remember it happening when I was around 14. I was in high school. I lived in the country. I had to walk a quarter of a mile from where the bus dropped me off to home. Guys driving by would sometimes call stuff out… (Linked Thursday 2011-04-14.)

• Wordfight at the C.P.B. Corral. Jesse Walker, Jesse Walker: Reason Magazine articles and blog posts. (2011-04-14). When Congress reached its midnight budget deal last week, the finished product didn't include the GOP's measure barring federal funds for National Public Radio, let alone the party's earlier proposal to zero out the Corporation for Public Broadcasting entirely. (I told you so.) In the aftermath, over at Bloomberg Government,… (Linked Thursday 2011-04-14.)

• Think Dialectically. Sheldon Richman, Free Association (2011-04-09). The title of the post is the advice my old friend Chris Matthew Sciabarra would surely give about proposals to change or abolish Medicare and Medicaid. It means holding the full context at the front of one’s mind. These programs certainly violate the rights of the people forced to finance… (Linked Thursday 2011-04-14.)

• 04/13/11 PHD comic: ‘Three to five weeks’ PHD Comics (2011-04-14). Piled Higher & Deeper by Jorge Cham www.phdcomics.com title: "Three to five weeks" – originally published 4/13/2011 For the latest news in PHD Comics, CLICK HERE! (Linked Thursday 2011-04-14.)

• dromiceiomimus, why was a big secret kept. Dinosaur Comics (2011-04-12). archive – contact – sexy exciting merchandise – cute – search – about!!!@@e2;2020;90; previousApril 12th, 2011nextApril 12th, 2011: Today I am going to Montreal with Joey; we’re going to be the two classiest dudes on the train; if you see on the news “BREAKING: TRAIN MEN: SO CLASSY” then watch… (Linked Thursday 2011-04-14.)

• Today in New York Times Navel-Gazing. Jesse Walker, Jesse Walker: Reason Magazine articles and blog posts. (2011-04-15). From Ginia Bellafante's review of Game of Thrones, an upcoming HBO adaptation of a book by the fantasy writer George R.R. Martin: The true perversion, though, is the sense you get that all of [the show's sex] has been tossed in as a little something for the ladies, out of… (Linked Friday 2011-04-15.)

• i think if you ask yourself what could actually give other. Captain Capitulation, eye of the storm (2011-04-11). i think if you ask yourself what could actually give other people the right to tell you what to wear, you'll see the problem with the state in a nutshell: it is entirely without moral justification. it has no defensible theoretical underpinnings. its overwhelming existence is perfectly proportioned to the lack… (Linked Wednesday 2011-04-13.)

• Fear and Loathing at *The New York Times* Jesse Walker: Reason Magazine articles and blog posts. (2011-04-13). Thomas Friemdan continues his quest to prove himself the stupidest man on earth. (Linked Wednesday 2011-04-13.)

• notjessewalker: Tom Friedman goes to hotel bathroom, mistakes sink for phone, accidentally interviews toothbrush. It says things will look up in 6 months. Twitter / notjessewalker (2011-04-12). notjessewalker: Tom Friedman goes to hotel bathroom, mistakes sink for phone, accidentally interviews toothbrush. It says things will look up in 6 months. (Linked Wednesday 2011-04-13.)

• Comment on Reaching Left by JOR. JOR, Comments for Austro-Athenian Empire (2011-04-11). I think he wasn't saying "left-libertarianism won't work" and calling Long et al. evangelists so much as he was saying that the evangelistic efforts of left (and other) libertarians are a waste of time because people's political philosophies are determined by non-rational factors. I agree. Libertarians shouldn't shift left, if… (Linked Wednesday 2011-04-13.)

• if you think there’s no way intonations could carry that much meaning, i invite you to study cantonese and then, for the full experience, feel bad because your tongue don’t work that well. Dinosaur Comics (2011-04-07). archive – contact – sexy exciting merchandise – cute – search – about!!!@@e2;2020;90; previousApril 7th, 2011nextApril 7th, 2011: Remember a few months back when my friend Allene auditioned for the YouTube Symphony Orchestra and won? I never linked to the performance! Here is the performance! Allene played a lot of… (Linked Thursday 2011-04-07.)

• 16th Annual Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair. Shawn P. Wilbur, Two-Gun Mutualism & the Golden Rule (2011-04-07). I’m headed for the train station in about an hour, on my way to the 2011 Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair, where I’ll be tabling with Corvus Editions both Saturday and Sunday, April 9-10. Stop by and say “hello” if you’re at the fair. I’ve packed some translation work, so… (Linked Thursday 2011-04-07.)

• PaPERCUT tHURSDAY Zine Workshop! LVZL, LVZINELIBRARY (2011-04-07). April 28th 2011Papercut ThursdayZines101: Themed CollaborationFREE (suggested 3-5 dollar donation to help with printing/material cost)…———————————–ALL AGES——————————————It’s time for another zine workshop!!! In this months workshop we will be making a collaborative zine. This time we’re gonna shoot for a theme and since it’s National poetry month, we’ll make POETRY the… (Linked Thursday 2011-04-07.)

• Saturday SATURDAAAAY – 5th Annual NYC Anarchist Book Fair. DarianW, DarianWorden.com (2011-04-07). The NYC Anarchist Book Fair is a good time with good folks. Stop by and see me at the Alliance of the Libertarian Left table. The 5th Annual NYC Anarchist Book Fair will be held Saturday, April 9th 2011* at Judson Memorial Church, 55 Washington Square South, between 11am and… (Linked Thursday 2011-04-07.)

• Jessica Nathanson. bfp, flip flopping joy (2011-04-06). UPDATED: While Jessica did blog under a pseudonym, she was also fairly out about her real name. And we had extensively discussed the issue of writing under our blogging names (thus outing *me*, but not her because she was already fairly out with her real name) while writing our book…. (Linked Friday 2011-04-08.)

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