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…
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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).
[The behind-the-scenes story of Reagan's most famous speech](http://powerlineblog.com/archives/017914.php).
A 65-year-old man in Poland [has just awoken after 19 years unconscious](http://www.reason.com/blog/show/120556.html).
Another feaure of Harry Potter is the tuly amazing volume of fan fiction (fanfic for short) that have been written.[^1] It's getting close to overtaking Star Trek... [One…
[Credit card shaped cutlery](http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2007/06/credit_card_cutlery.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890).
[One proposal that never quite made it](http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2007/06/03/130-a-ten-state-australia/).