The RIAA tries to pull an Enron, and fails: they’re bitching that CD sales are down, when the decline is in CD-single sales – which the RIAA is no longer pushing – not the full-length discs. It’s like shipping half as many books this year as you did last year and then blaming the sales decline on audiobooks. Cue the Tim-Allen ”Huh?” sound effect. (via Boing Boing)
OH CANADA NO. (further discussion, supplemented by entertaining computer engineering metaphors, over at Making Light)
Thank You for Choosing the Hyatt Regency Purgatory “An automatic-teller machine is located in the lobby. For your convenience, it is attended at all hours and in perpetuity by the bank executive who came up with the idea of ATM fees.”
Twilight in Fifteen Minutes — Scathing and brilliant.
Harvard Law prof and two students go after the RIAA. — Heroes of the week.
The Minority Report hand-waving computer interface is now real. Its users will have the best toned arms in the office.
The Matrix runs on Windows. Ow. It hurts to laugh that hard.
Google flu trends — doing something useful with all those searches for “flu symptoms.”
Catch you on the flip side, @MarsPhoenix. Good work. Sleep well.
I’m addicted to the NYTimes maps this morning, especially the county bubble view. Hello, population distribution! It’s fascinating to compare this year to 2004.
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