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Over 70% of pirated music comes from offline sharing
Interesting. In 2011, over 70% of pirated music came from off line trading (hard drive trading, burning/ripping from others). That’s up from almost 65% in 2010. So claimeth the RIAA in an anonymously leaked presentation. Via Torrentfreak.
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Atheists and Politics
How do atheists break down by political party and ideology? Here’s what the 2008 Pew Religious Landscape Survey found.
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Scout tells you when lawmakers are up to no good
Finally! A tool that tells you when lawmakers are monkeying around with issues you care about.
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Who knew there was no authoritative edition of Mein Kampf?
Most surprising thing I learned from On The Media’s coverage of the forthcoming expiration of the copyright of Mein Kampf? There’s no authoritative version in the first place, and nobody really knows what Hitler originally dictated. Solution: The German government will publish its own annotated edition. German media professor Niklaus Peifer explains, “There is no ...
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Censored by TED: Who are the true job creators?
The TED Talk that TED didn’t want to show you.
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The media has a curiously narrow definition of “working class”
The media and some politicians often use a very narrow definition of “working class” that minimizes both the numbers of working class individuals, and their political importance.
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Thomas Edison: Occupy Wall Street activist?
Yesterday, while trying to track down a bogus quote attributed to Thomas Edison, I came across this quite real quote in the Dec. 21, 1921 NY Times which just stunned me. Why, Old Father G.E. sounded like a post-Keynesian MMT theorist! Although it might be hard to tell Edison apart from your average Occupy Wall Street ...
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Ignorance is nonpartisan
Phil over at the Bad Astronomy Blog notes an interesting Gallup poll that asked participants whether they believed: that God created humans exactly as they are now sometime in the last ten centuries, or that humans developed over millions of years but with guidance from God, or that humans developed over millions of years and ...
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Revisting the swastika in San Diego
You might remember a couple of months ago when I used this group of buildings at Naval Base Coronado on North Island in San Diego that happens to resemble a Nazi swastika from the air as a way of introducing the concept of Prägnanz from Gestalt psychology. Despite saying very little this was one of ...