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How Britain's Pirate Finder General is trying to save the Analog Economy at the Digital Economy's expense

My latest Guardian column looks at Peter Mandelson's new "Digital Economy Bill," a sweeping piece of proposed British legislation that would give Mandelson broad powers to act as the Pirate-Finder General, with the implausible aim of reducing UK file-shari...
Boing Boing Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:45:56 PST

Musician's open letter, sung to Peter Mandelson, Britain's Pirate-Finder General

Dan Bull (he of the musical open letter to Lily Allen about copyright) has recorded another open letter to Peter Mandelson, the UK Business Secretary who's set himself up to be Pirate-Finder General, with nearly unlimited powers to enforce copyright. Dan B...
Boing Boing Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:37:05 PST

A Mental_Floss Thanksgiving

Two bits of lighthearted holiday history from my old friends at mental_floss. About The Presidential Turkey Pardon The first official National Thanksgiving Turkey was presented by members of the Poultry and Egg National Board to Harry Truman in 1947. Accor...
Boing Boing Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:16:16 PST

Scientist explains why climate scientists talk trash

Dr Peter Watts, a PhD biologist and a hell of a science fiction writer, talks about what it means that a bunch of climate scientists Science doesn't work despite scientists being asses. Science works, to at least some extent, because scientists are asses. ...
Boing Boing Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:49:37 PST

[Sciences] Climategate: MSM Writers Try to Ignore Scandal in Global Warming Stories But Readers Bring Them Back to Reality (NewsBusters)

An hilariously bizarre situation is happening in the wake of the growing Climategate scandal . Many of the mainstream media stories about global warming are simply pretending it doesn't exist. Perhaps they feel that by ignoring Climategate entirely that it...
Wikio Thu, 26 Nov 2009 03:56:00 GMT

Manchester Manifesto asks: Who owns science?

A familiar issue in innovation policy - patenting and the commercialisation of scientific knowledge - resurfaces today in a so-called Manchester Manifesto. The manifesto has 50 signatories, led by the moral philosopher John Harris and Nobel Prize winning b...
FT Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:01:05 +0000

[Sciences] Copenhagen in a sentence (Environmental Economics)

From the USAToday today: Technologies to cut back carbon dioxide emissions from factories and vehicles that feed the global economy add costs to fuel, food and more, an option that appeals neither to industrial nations struggling with the global economic m...
Wikio Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:26:55 GMT

[Sciences] Report: Downey, CA mayor claims Tesla Model S plant deal 99.9% done (AutoblogGreen)

Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Manufacturing/Plants , Tesla Motors Tesla Model S - Click above for high-res image gallery When Tesla Motors does get around to building its second product, the Model S , it intends to build the body and chassis in-house unlike th...
Wikio Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:26:59 GMT

[Sciences] Obama to Attend International Junk Science Meeting on Non-Existent Global Warming (Gateway Pundit)

Do you think he'll mention Climategate, the greatest scandal in modern science, while he's there? .Doubtful. Obama told his supporters at the UN in September that we can reverse non-existent climate change: What garbage! Obama told the UN General Assembly ...
Wikio Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:31:00 GMT

At last - Tory reassurance on science

Many senior scientists in Britain have been worrying about the impact a change of government in next year’s general election might have on their activities. After all, the Conservative party has had little to say about science - compared to other fie...
FT Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:41:30 +0000

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