Wednesday, December 15, 2004

Instapundit Firefox Visitors at 19%

19% of Instapundit Readers Use FirefoxAn impressive example of a non-techy site receiving a very large amount of Firefox visitors. While there's something to the argument that those who get their political news from a Weblog are likely to be more tech-saavy; I think that the more tech-saavy are reading Instapundit via RSS, which is...

Friday, December 10, 2004

Google Suggest

Google Suggest Beta. Very cool. Suggest search terms as you type. I've got to learn how they do that javascript, though. (Yahoo! Mail does similar for your contact list...)

Tuesday, December 7, 2004

On Internet Polls

Ann Althouse wonders about the results of her poll on her "conservative" status. Her e-mailer update comes from me:I think you're missing an important feature of internet polls: Thefunny answers win, not the correct ones. :)

Monday, December 6, 2004

Terror Not the Big Issue?

War on Terror not Global Issue - Mitch Kapor links to a NYT article stating that the War on Terror is not the most pressing issue in the world to most people outside America. Is the result of, or the cause of, America being the leader and primary participant in said War on Terror?

A Tempting Cohesive Judicial Philosophy

CMN comments in response to JaneGalt.As I think Randy Barnett's work convincingly shows, the whole point of the 9th Am is that rights are innumerable. It's only government powers that are limited and numbered. We don't list your inviolable rights, because liberty means the inviolable right to do anything that doesn't violate someone else's rights,...

Judicial Activism

Activism ain't just a river in Egypt - JaneGalt.netThis is undoubtedly true. But that doesn't mean that judicial activism doesn't exist; it just means that it's a bipartisan vice. Even if the normal political usage of the term isn't strictly objective, one can still define what judicial activism is--broadly, starting from the desired result, and...