what's that splashing sound?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/08/david-brooks-sarah-palin_n_133001.html

Sounds like David Brooks going in the tank for Obama...if reluctantly.

what are US losses to IP piracy? an archaeological investigation of statistics

http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/dodgy-digits-behind-the-war-on-piracy.ars

This attempt to track down the source of a couple of oft-quoted numbers (750K jobs, $200-250 billion) is an interesting look at the provenance of numbers like that, and how they can morph as they're passed from source to source.