links for 2008-01-24

The MPAA inflated numbers for student downloading by a factor of three. Gee, and they seemed so honest...

Nathan Rabin's Year of Flops

"According to Sean Gulick, a research scientist at the Institute for Geophysics at The University of Texas at Austin's Jackson School of Geosciences and principal investigator for the project, the new images reveal the asteroid landed in deeper water th

The fun of reworking the general education curriculum. We did this two years ago...

I Can Has Cheezeburger: The book. Emmy does not approve.

Published writers read dreadful unpublished teenage works. Hilarity ensues.

"If you were the president of a liberal arts college, I think you could do a lot worse than sitting down with Jamie Hyneman,..., and asking him, "How would you build a curriculum designed to train a MythBuster?""

Adding a chemical to quantum dots stabilizes their emission.

I love the opening sentence that seems to promise 300% efficiency.