The Art Renewal center had contest and here are the winners and a bunch of runners up and honorable mentions. There are some interesting paintings here.(Read more...)
Japanese inventor Kohei Minato has invented a motor that uses only 20% of the power used by conventional electric motors and uses magnets to make up the difference. It might not be Galt's motor, but it's damned close.(Read more...)
Technical difficulties Posted by Joseph Rowlands
on 4/19/2004, 11:24pm
In case you haven't noticed, SoloHQ had some technical difficulties over the last day or two. I believe the problem is fixed (disk quota problem), but in the process some data got corrupted. There were a few posts in the moderator queue that were corrupted, as well as posts that went through to the forum okay. If yo...(Read more...)
From the Editor Posted by Lindsay Perigo on 4/23/2004, 10:35pm
I want to thank article writers for being so prolific of late, & to reassure those who are waiting patiently for their masterpieces to appear that they indeed *will* appear. As it stands there are contributions in the queue from Messrs Rick, Reasoner, Tingley, Stolyarov, Cresswell, Setzer, Younkins, Platts, Bachler, Ha...(Read more...)
New! Ayn Rand page! Posted by Lindsay Perigo on 4/26/2004, 12:32am
Just to let you know folks that we've added an Ayn Rand page, as a sidebar on the About page (bottom right of your screen on *this* page). I've written a short new essay - Who Was Ayn Rand? - & we've added links to previous essays about Rand on SOLOHQ. For better or worse, these all turned out to have been written by m...(Read more...)
The Education Secretary will throw his weight behind a controversial draft bill unveiled yesterday by David Blunkett which could make it compulsory for everyone in Britain over 16 -except the Queen - to carry a biometric ID card by 2013.
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Two radio show hosts in South Florida managed to con their way through the layers of phone bureaucracy in Cuba and get Castro on the phone on air. They called him a killer and he swore at them and hung up. Score one point for Capitalism. Now the FCC has fined our anti-communist heroes $4000. Doh! Socialism has eve...(Read more...)
If you haven't noticed, we added a new Gallery to the Spirit page. Now you can add your favorite CD music. Try to remember....this is "Sense of Life" Objectivists. (Read more...)
This is an Objectivist adaptation of Eric Heubeck's conservative article proposing a "New Traditionalist Movement". Heubeck consented to the adaptation on condition that his original article be linked from the Objectivist article, and this article satisfies that condition.(Read more...)
