Archive for February, 2010

Posted on February 25, 2010 - by Aaron Ross Powell

The Objectivist Guide to Parenting

Let’s suppose you’re a good Randian, an objectivist, live your life in the cause of reason–and you end up with kids? Atlas Shrugged provides no guidance, at least not until your children are old enough to change the world with their entrepreneurial spirit.

What you need, obviously, is an Objectivist Guide to Parenting, right? Trouble is, [...]

Posted on February 13, 2010 - by Aaron Ross Powell

Why There’s No Camera on the iPad (hint: because it would suck)

Nobody wants to take photographs on their iPad. In fact, the only reason to have a camera on the device—a front-facing camera, specifically—is for video chat. Apple knows this, and they know video chat on an iPad would be an awesome, the-future-has-arrived feature.

So why isn’t it included? The simple answer is because Apple doesn’t want [...]

Posted on February 10, 2010 - by Aaron Ross Powell

Surviving Snowpocalypse 2010 Hoth Style

Snowpocalypse continues in Washington, DC, and it seemed a perfect time to break out what is probably the best birthday gift ever from my wife. You can survive pretty much anything winter throws at you when you’ve got your own tauntaun.

Posted on February 1, 2010 - by Aaron Ross Powell

Why DRM eBooks Aren’t That Big of a Deal

If you listen to Cory Doctorow, ebooks wrapped in DRM are an evil plot by Lemurians and the Gnomes of Zurich to plant blasting caps about the ankles of western civilization. He may be right. But what I want to assert—and what seems so uncouth to say on the open culture Internet, especially coming from [...]