Ari Schwartz sends along this link, from Gizmodo. Amazon [was] bending to the wishes of a publisher and deleting every single legitimately-purchased copy of 1984 and Animal Farm from all Kindles remotely…the […]
Amazon remotely deletes legitimately purchased books from Kindles
The sad decline of music: Cole Porter vs. The Beatles
Paul McCartney has once again crept upon our shores. He was, of course, vanguard in the original “British Invasion”, which occurred in early 1964. Now, an invasion is something to be resisted, […]
The strange insignificance of statistical significance
Who is more likely to support the death penalty: college undergraduates from a “nationally-ranked Midwestern university with an enrollment of slightly more than 20,000” majoring in social work, or those majoring in […]
Hannah Arendt on global warming theory
…there are, indeed, few things that are more frightening than the steadily increasing prestige of scientifically minded brain trusters in the councils of government during the last decades. The trouble is not […]
A Return to Seriousness: 7 Best Songs About Beer; Or, God Bless the Pope
Update: the embeddings have been shifted to links, because the embeddings were eating up too much memory on some people’s browsers. 7 John Lee Hooker/George Thorogood, One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer. […]
Randomness isn’t in charge of anything: the “hot hand” in basketball
The Wall Street Journal is helping Leonard Mlodinow tout his book The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives. Among other things, Mlodinow, like academics Tversky, Kahneman, and Gilovich before him, wants […]
Internet Advertising Company to Fund Itself With Advertising
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Internet Advertising Company to Fund Itself With Advertising New York – July 4, 2009 – Word leader in being a new company engaged in ways of bringing advertising to […]
Public Enemies — by Bryan Burrough
I am re-posting this book review because the movie came out today, and it might be of interest. Public Enemies: America’s Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-1934 Bryan […]
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