When anyone in the media wants to make the video game industry appear bigger than it is, they inevitably compare total sales of video games to total Hollywood box office receipts. John Markoff slips in this bogus comparison in an articles in today’s New York Times. According to Markoff, Sales of game software alone reached…
May, 2002
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Okay, maybe saying that National Public Radio has an anti-Israeli bias is a bit like saying that fish swim, but I was still a bit surprised by Andrea Levin’s analysis of NPR’s coverage of Palestinian terrorism for the Jersualem Post. According to Levin, In a period of six days, from March 27 through April 2,…
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No, this isn’t alt.sex.stereos, it’s even worse — it turns out the Motion Picture Association of America is intent on proving correct every paranoid Slashdotter and Lawrence Lessig devote with a proposal to regulate analog-to-digital converters. Cory Doctorow is all over this at the EFF’s Consensus at Lawyerpoint blog. According to Doctorow: The Motion Picture…
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People in Malawi want money and food from you and I — in fact they might die if they do not receive it. Unfortunately, whether or not to provide them with those resources is not quite so straightforward. The famine conditions that Malawi is currently experiencing are no accident. They were largely brought about by…
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Thanks to Bill Herbert for pointing to this Slate story that debunks a central claim about alleged terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui. All of the media coverage about Moussaoui has claimed that his behavior was suspicious because he wanted to learn how to fly a plane but did not want to learn how to take off or…
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One last thought — I keep seeing these quotes from various government officials that future terrorist attacks are inevitable, etc. to which I have to wonder exactly why I am paying taxes. Being a libertarian I don’t expect the government to do a whole heck of a lot, but I don’t think it is too…
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As I said on Sept. 12, the best revenge for the 9/11 attacks (aside from eliminating the Taliban and killing Osama bin Laden) would be to rebuild the World Trade Center. The best proposal I’ve seen so far for doing this is the Liberty Square Plan which would have as its cornerstone the tallest building…
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While looking for something else, I happened across Joel Splosky’s commentary on the Real Names imbroglio. Quick scorecard: Microsoft recently dumped Real Names most unceremoniously and Real Names Chairman Keith Teare has been whining and moaning in public about the decision ever since. Splosky writes, RealNames is going out of business. They deserve it. It…
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Courtsey of Boing!Boing! comes word that ThinkGeek is now selling Caffeinated Soap. It claims to deliver 250 milligrams of caffeine subdermally while the user showers. I don’t know whether to shake my head in disbelief or order a case.
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Dave Winer has been writing a lot this week about the importance of developer communities and of supporting developers. On the other hand, he has completely ignored the release of Conversant, which is an application that runs on top of Frontier/Radio. Maybe I missed all of the other Frontier/Radio developers who released a content management/groupware…