"Cugel strode down a sweep of circular stairs into a great hall. He stood enthralled, paying Iucounu the tribute of unstinted wonder. But his time was limited; he must rob swiftly and be on his way. Out came his sack; he roved the hall, fastidiously selecting those objects of small bulk and great value: a [...]
Some have recently inquired - well they have asked anyway - whether or not we will have a bookstore this year. You know, the place where you can find classic books on Austrian economics, monetary theory, history, and philosophy, both in hardcover and paperback. The place where you are able to buy collectible 1st editions, [...]
“On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.” - Robert Anton Wilson "Despite the campaign rhetoric, the bureaucracies - big business and big government - are here to stay. The centralization effort cannot be checked. but it can be rationally directed towards [...]
No no no, I get it really. I understand completely, ladies (et les hommes naturellement - but I address le dames en ce moment s'il vous plaît). The curiosity. The mystery. The excitement and adventure of the unknown, the untried, the unexperienced. Your do not know what will happen, but you must take a chance, [...]
We should all be thankful that an Italian from the Lake Como region with the cool name of Alessandro Volta invented the battery, because if it was a German we'd be asking our electrician to install a 220 Stromspannug circuit for the washing machine. The battery was an amazing discovery, so humanity obviously decided there [...]
I know that lately it has been shrinking - if you don't believe me just have a short conversation with a stranger about, well, any topic really, or maybe just chat about overpopulation, global warming, and veganism and see how that goes - but many thousands of years ago when our brains were actually EXPANDING, [...]
"Space...is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind bogglingly big it is." - An Important Book Some of you probably know that we live on a rock inside a place that we call (because we don't know its real name) Space. A Big Rock to us, but not at all the [...]