MPAA and junk research

More proof that the “copyright” industries are systematically misleading the press on the true impact of downloading movies and music.

Groupthink

Headshift gives us a nice roundup of thinking about groups who can provide better decision-making than “experts”. As Lee say: the meat will come out of applying this to business and/or government?

McCoffee burns

An interesting examination of how you might wind up (and wind down) a jury and why the McDonalds coffee burns damages case was an abberation in McCoffee burns. Very lawyer-focused, but interesting nonetheless.

Boris Akunin

Boris Akunin from Wikipedia. Just read the first one and it’s very good. So why did they translate the first and then the third of his books and not the second yet?