Amazon has remotely wiped a book that people had already purchased for the Kindle (an ebook reader). As John Gruber notes: It’s one thing to stop selling them. It’s something else entirely to remove them from the Kindles of those who already bought them. That this happened with1984, of all the books that have ever…
I received a link from Amazon today touting a new book by Michael Hanlon: Humankind is not doomed, we may be around for millions of years yet. We have already survived one of the most extraordinary planet-wide catastrophes — the Ice Ages. … The subject of the book is very much in the news at the moment — will we…
Jonathan Cook on Dr. Shlomo Sand’s new book: Dr. Shlomo Sand argues that the idea of a Jewish nation — whose need for a safe haven was originally used to justify the founding of the state of Israel — is a myth invented little more than a century ago. In addition, he argues that the Jews were never exiled from the…
At the beginning of February, when I arrived back in London from a trip to New Zealand, I was surprised to find my inbox full of messages alerting me that a person named Ty McDonald had been fired from a newspaper for plagiarising me.
The marketplace of ideas, like any marketplace, is fit only for looting.
Kirk MacGibbon, a New Zealander living in New York, says that Kiwi’s are prejudice against Americans and that this comes from, amongst other things, “their limited understanding of American foreign policy.”
But we’re not the only ones to lack understanding. Much of the world misunderstands U.S. foreign policy, especially those who have to deal with it at the end of a gun barrel.
I spent my early teenage years attending a catholic high school where debate about the more dubious aspects of organised religion was relatively open, so I’ve generally had an attitude of live and let live; as long as people don’t attempt to impose their fairy tales on me I won’t get on their backs about how silly they’re being.
In terms of the war on terror, who should be the next country to invade? Read on to see some of the better results of “engineering consent.”