Russ Roberts and Skip Sauer have an interesting podcast on whether or not professional sports is economically competitive.
Pete Guither notes that the country of Colombia is paying for ads in Europe detailing how European drug use is wiping out the Colombian rain forest, and “killing hundreds of children.” Like Guither, my guess is that ONDCP and U.S. taxpayer dollars are behind this. And of course, it is American and Europe’s drug prohibition that creates the violence, and ONDCP’s flyover herbicide sprays that are killing the country’s vegetation.
Comedy Central demands that YouTube pull all Daily Show and Colbert Report clips. This strikes me as rather stupid. Those two shows owe much of their popularity to buzz, particularly the viral power of bloggers embedding the clips on their sites.
Rolling Stone’s “Rock n’ Roll Blog” asks for nominations for rock songs that mention superheros. Three “Supermans” come to mind that aren’t on the list. There’s one by the Kinks, one by Eminem, and one by Lazlo Bane (the latter is the theme from Scrubs, and actually a pretty good song).
NPR and the National Association of Broadcasters — certainly two of my all-time favorite organizations — are calling for a recall ofnmodulators that allow you to broadcast your iPod or satellite radio receiver through an FM radio station. Their reason? They say the local broadcasts interfere with other cars’ reception as you drive by. Has anyone ever had a problem with this? The U.K. has apparently banned the modulators, on the absurd premise that they amount to “pirate radio stations.” This of course is just the latest in NAB’s long history of attacks on technology and innovation.
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