this month: Seeing Around Corners by Jonathan Rauch. Spinning artificial societies to learn about unintended consequences in complex systems. And to put the lie to most economists and many political scientists. Rational choosers? Humbug! Isolated individuals? Forget it!

blogs a big problem from the independent media world: Never let the truth get in the way of predictable propaganda. Propaganda comes from both sides. It doesn’t work well in either case.

Eisner (and his ilk) really expect anyone to take their opinions seriously? Eisner’s FT editorial today was both intellectually lazy and, worse, a very boring read. I call bullshit. Again.

is really undergoing a serious period of crisis. Not due to stuff like Napster and such – due to the seeming incompetence of the “entertainment” companies and the politicians in their pocket. Napster was the best thing that could have happened to the music industry. It should have been a cash cow! Anyhow the whole gang has just taken another step towards oblivion with Fritz Hollings’ renamed SSSCA: Anti-Copy Bill Hits DC.