by Tom | Mar 23, 2011 | Business, Reading
I find myself wondering what the NYT is playing at in its new pricing model (kudos for the Times reporting on it): it is cheaper to have hard copy delivered direct to a recycling plant and use your linked online subscription than it is to subscribe on multiple...
by Tom | Mar 22, 2011 | Reading
Why don’t journalists link to primary sources? Definitely right that they should where possible. At one stage, I thought that the user comments sections might help keep journalists at the top of their game, but seeing the varied signal to noise ratios in articles...
by Tom | Mar 22, 2011 | Reading
Bridges is a beautiful collection of places where Google’s automated bridge scripts don’t quite work with the landscape. Rather splendid if they did exist in that form, no?
by Tom | Mar 17, 2011 | Reading, Science
It’s worth noting a few things from Bad Science that I’m catching up on: Sniffer dogs react to their handlers, not their unerring instinct to find drugs. I guess the experiment needs to be done with drugs rather than sausages, but the principle seems...
by Tom | Mar 11, 2011 | Reading
Now I know there are a vanishingly small number of people who believe in the literal truth of the words in the bible, but for those few remaining, this won’t be enough to convince them. I’m not clear how it overlaps with the West Wing argument, either. It...
by Tom | Mar 11, 2011 | Business, Reading
More of the same discussion as earlier. Admittedly these aren’t $0.99 books, but still significantly cheaper than most mainstream books (which I guess is where 100k+ sales a month puts you). The killer phrase (based on a $300k+ income a month): no traditional...
