Month: July 2007

The Harry Potter books look like they're pretty strongly in the Fantasy genre: dragons, magic, centaurs, etc. But there's actually an older genre that the Harry Potter series…

[A very clever way to fight illegal posters](http://www.boingboing.net/2007/06/08/city_fights_illegal_.html).

[A fascinating description of the parking culture in New York](http://www.personism.com/2007/06/15/parking/).

[US presidential ratings back to 1946](http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/info-presapp0605-31.html).

[Some authors pick their favourites](http://bookforum.org/inprint/issue=200703&id=257).

Ticket scalping has always puzzled me - why can't they just get the price right in the first place? [Now TicketMaster has an auction service that might just…

Adapting a book to film is not easy. There are not many succesful examples around, and what few there are (Blade Runner, for instance) drift a very long…

A nice summary of [the pro-nerd bias of Wikipedia](http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/06/07/wikipedias-huge-nerd-bias/).

Bruce Schneir explores [the incompetence of most recent attempted terrorists](http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/06/portrait_of_the.html).

Pictures made from [the patterns of air traffic movements in the US](http://users.design.ucla.edu/~akoblin/work/faa/index.html).