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Orient yourself

The Interstate Highway system is easy to understand, once you know its principles. Not listed here, there are also standard nomenclatures for spurs and loops, and also there are smaller Interstates such as I-17, which connects I-10 and I-40 between Phoenix and Flagstaff. The number makes sense, since it is

Linkfest 2022-02-18: Ruining of Mountains

The Roman mining technique Ruina Montium is an impressive bit of applied engineering. Kirk Dunston: Why Sexual Morality May Be More Important Than You Thought An application of J. D. Unwin’s Sex and Culture to the West, 40 years after the sexual revolution. Unwin’s book was published in

Madonna and Child

Linkfest 2022-02-11: OG Conan

Voidpunk: The Original Conan Stories of Robert E. Howard The three illustrated volumes of Conan the Barbarian [Amazon link] published by Random House were my literary introduction to both Conan and Howard’s work in general. I highly recommend these volumes. I mentioned these in another Linkfest three years ago.

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The Long View 2008-12-07: The Components of Freedom; Mad Max in South Asia; Our Precious Bodily Fluids; Virtual Catacombs

This is a a great blog post. The linked Reason article about the “Libertarian moment of 2008” looks hilarious in retrospect. The last 14 years have if anything seen the acceleration of the trends the article mentions, but I doubt many people in Anglosphere countries feel much freer. The hyper-individualized