The [film festival] organizer has a few quotes that suggests he understands that piracy isn’t the problem the MPAA makes it out to be: “No artists have ever starved because too many people knew about them.”
Techdirt on Cinequest via Organizer
31 January 2008
30 January 2008
A fourth-grader reads an article in the Science Times, and is so moved by outrage that he pens a stern missive to the scientists quoted? It’s not very often that you have a chance to inspire a young mind like that, even if you do inspire him to berate you.
Cosmic Variance on Scientific Child
29 January 2008
You might recall the most famous recommendation of the Copenhagen Consensus was to invest in anti-HIV/AIDS programs as a higher priority than global warming…The bottom line is that $50 billion doesn’t go as far as you might think.
Marginal Revolution on AIDS Programs
28 January 2008
Like if Mother Nature sat us down for a talk and said, “listen, you’re really shitting on the rest of the planet, its residents, its ecosystems, etc. and, by the way, you’re killing me slowly and painfully” and the only honorable thing to do would be to jump in a rocketship to colonize Mars or commit mass suicide so everything else could live in peace.
Kottke on the Environment
Please support Barack Obama.
xkcd on the Election
Scientists further proclaimed “This pictures look kind of like Space Invaders, but blurrier. Zoot! Bang! Zoot!”
ArsGeek on the Asteroid
Happy Birthday my 8 nubbed friend. May you continue to snap together with your cohorts in a vaguely sexual manner for many years to come.
ArsGeek on Lego
27 January 2008
I know I’m starting to sound like a broken record, but in case you haven’t heard: The era of paid music downloads is coming to an end (despite the fact that online sales are growing).
TechCrunch on Music Downloads
In another case, a truck painted with DirecTV and other markings was pulled over in a routine traffic stop in Mississippi and discovered to be carrying 786 pounds of cocaine.
ABC on Cloned Vehicles
26 January 2008
The creation of fake personas, carefully nuanced with mundane details and mediocrity, the fake ‘average guy’, when developed over a long period of time, can be an ingenious platform to scrape data, mine data, infiltrate social networks and communities.
Eric Rice on Social Hacks