This is an excellent site I found via Metafilter. Brian Bennett has compiled a great deal of data on drug use. As he puts it on his site: “What I’ve atempted to do here is to create a level playing field in the drug war debate. As it turns out though, the data are actually more of an atomic bomb against continuing the drug war than a “level” playing field.” It’s pretty meticulous and all the data is sourced and can be verified.
February 28, 2006
February 27, 2006
Eugene Mirman Cancels Dish Network Service
Eugene Mirman is hilarious, I really enjoyed this piece on cancelling Dish Network service.
Horrifying
The Aphex Twin video for “Windowlicker” is perhaps the most horrifying music video I’ve ever seen – but I can’t stop watching it.
Air Guitar Kills
I don’t usually expect to find out something horrifying when I visit the Music Thing blog. Save for Bob Moog’s unfortunate demise from a brain tumor the news is generally positive. Today is an exception, in this post, Music Thing reports a casualty of overenthusiastic air guitar.
Clavia Nord Modular Comparison Chart
Thanks to MatrixSynth blog for unearthing this Nord Modular comparison chart. The chart provides a nice summary of the capabilities of the various editions of the Nord Modular (my favorite synth.) As people have moved on to the G2, the earlier editions have begun coming down in price and Micro Modulars and Classic Modulars are becoming more affordable – you can find them on eBay pretty regularly now.
February 26, 2006
Total Information Awareness
You may recall the brouhaha a few years back over a defense program called Total Information Awareness. (Actually the real brouhaha was over the terrorist futures market, run out of the same research branch as TIA.) According to a post on Think Progress, it’s still around, albeit under a different name. It’s called Google. Just kidding.
New Google Feature
Anybody notice that if you are logged into Google, you have an option to permanently remove results from search?
Blogsnow
I noticed blogsnow.com was indexing my site. It’s a real-time tracker that indexes blogs, much like blogdex.com. Although it has a few nice other features for example:
- Backlinks
- Most clicked
- Most linked Flash
- Most linked flickr
- Most linked to Google Maps
- Most linked to IMDB entries
- Most linked to Quicktime Videos
- Most linked to Wikipedia Entries
- Most linked to Windows Media Files
And it’s truly real-time. Every time you reload, the links change a litte. Very nice.
February 25, 2006
Compulsory Licensing
Compulsory licensing refers to a situation where a party is legally required to grant license over (intellectual) property to another party. While this notion is generally absent from United States Patent Law, it does exist in other countries. For example, the Patently-O blow points to the compulsory license clauses in French and German Patent Law.