free is better than cheap.

Date February 23, 2006

Free wireless mouse/keyboard from Lenovo (IBM). I don’t know why it is free but it is (I just got my order confirmation email for $0.00). Jump on it, before they wise up—and make sure to click on the “don’t email me about anything else, ever” box.

Update: looks like the offer’s gone now.

Hi, I’m a social scientist!

Date February 23, 2006

George Will wonders why conservatives are happier than liberals and predictably comes up with reasons that conservatism causes happiness.

Well, George, you’ve got to understand the correlative fallacy here. Maybe it’s not that being conservative makes one happy but rather that being happy (read: complacent) makes one interested in preserving the status quo and keeping one’s [...]