Libertarians on TV!

It all started when the Belo Corporation excluded Texas gubernatorial candidate James Werner, a libertarian, from a debate that did include two independents, Kinky Friedman and Carole Keeton-Strayhorn. This was untenable, and hence we wanted to give Werner an opportunity to speak to the UT-Austin campus. I was tasked with convincing him to come (not very hard) and then it immediately blew up to the point where we were calling television stations and newspapers, posting flyers all over campus, and telling as many people as we could about it. Michael Badnarik also spoke at the event, and somewhere around 10 other candidates were also in attendance.

At any rate, the event was held two days ago and was quite successful, in my opinion. THREE television stations came to check us out. Now, I don’t agree even with everything these candidates say, but it is a good step in the right direction.

And you also get to see me in front of a camera...

News 8 Austin covers the Libertarian Longhorns' Candidate Forum

Look below on the page for the link to pop-up a video clip… Enjoy!

Lincoln Unmasked!

Thomas DiLorenzo has a new book out called Lincoln Unmasked: What You're Not Supposed to Know About Dishonest Abe. Already it is receiving both praise and vitriolic rhetoric from both left and right. Why don't you get the book and decide for yourself?



And here are some articles to help you decide...
http://www.lewrockwell.com/woods/woods58.html
http://blog.mises.org/archives/005741.asp

The Vid that is shaking the world...

For all of you nerds out there, Weird Al is here for you!

News on Quantum Teleportation

Here's some science news for today:

The Science Blog reports on quantum teleportation today. Keep in mind that this sort of teleportation is not Star Trek style. You're not poofing atoms from one place to another. Rather, this is a communication transferrance, and hence is applicable to quantum computing or quantum cryptography. I'm not really sure why it got tagged as "teleportation" at all, because it's an entanglement phenomena and it isn't what people expect when they hear about it.

Damn Interesting posted a classic article today on German theoretical physicist Burkhard Heim, who developed an extremely advanced theory that claims to rectify the differences between quantum mechanics and Einstein's theory of relativity. The result is a theoretical framework that provides for the basis of a hyperdrive to travel through interstellar space. I know nothing about this sort of thing or whether this is even close to feasible, but if it is eventually proven true than Heim will clearly go down in history with the likes of Newton, Leibniz, Plank, Bohr, and Einstein.

How would you like to work in THIS lab?

Rocketboom reports on the MIT Artistic Glass Blowing Lab. Now that's a class I wish I could have taken as an undergrad (or a grad, for that matter).