Aug 012002
 

A buddy of mine keeps telling me the Internet is the great engine of human freedom, bringing capitalism and representative government to all. Not if the Saudis have anything to do with it. (Link courtesy of Charles Johnson, who I guess is my hero today.) And here’s an article (pdf format) on what big fun it is to surf the web in Cuba and China.

Toys are nice, but ideas rule the world.

Aug 012002
 

Eugene Volokh suggested using this to suppress pop-up windows while browsing. Works too. Works too well in fact. At least half the blogs I read use pop-up windows for their comments, giving me the Hobson’s Choice of comments and pop-up ads, or no ads and no comments either. Pop-up windows are a lousy format for comments anyway, slow to load and annoying (occasionally impossible) to resize. Charles Johnson’s blog is the model for how comments should be handled, and it’s probably no coincidence that he gathers more of them than anyone else. So could you all just put your comments on the perma-link page so I can surf in peace? Jane? Susanna? Laurence? And could you do this, like, today? Thanks.