The Adventures of Shylock Holmes

If one were forced to nominate a candidate for the "great libertarian song" (not 'greatest among a field of mediocrities'...

Marginal Revolution linked to this interesting piece in the Sacramento Bee on how the Burning Man Festival has run into lots of problems b...

I have been told by not one, but two regular readers that they don't really like my posts about music. Well, stiff $#!7. Here's th...

The excellent 'Your ex-lover is dead', by 'Stars' Lyrics here . It's a wonderful song about two ex-lovers meeting e...

...whether you like it or not. Tickets to the Coachella music festival went on sale today at 10am. Last year, I figured I had a while to d...

Something I was put on to recently - Felonious Munk. He has a whole series of interesting rants full of common sense and gratuitous swearing...

If I had to give an award for the most understated but profound song written in the last decade, it would be hard to beat ‘End of the Movie’...

( image credit ) So it turns out that Scarlett Johansson is the latest celebrity to have nude photos of her leaked onto the internet. (A ...

"Life's not a bitch. Life is a beautiful woman. You only call her a bitch 'cause she won't let you get that pussy." ...

From the excellent 'The House Wins', by OK GO, a wonderful metaphor for the strong form of the No Free Lunches principle * : Ice a...

I was at a rock concert the other day, and it was in one of those theatres with seats the whole way through, and only a small area for the m...

File this in the category of 'Things that lots of people have figured out before me, but I still thought of independently'. I'...

There are some instances in life where your demand curve slopes upwards - the higher the price, the more you want to buy. Even where this oc...

Take the song ' Ditty ', by one-hit-wonder 'Paperboy'. Let's assume you didn't know when the song was released, watc...

The 50 most googled women . Well, that's the title anyway - they actually mean the 50 women that return the most hits on Google, but ped...

To my mind, one of the most useful functions of the internet is vastly simplifying the search for negative knowledge. How do you verify that...

There is little doubt in my mind that the X-Men series of movies is far and away the best of the comic book movie adaptions. Not because m...

From Peter Gabriel's excellent song, Biko . The subject matter is the death of anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko , beaten to death by...

So apparently some guy has confessed to killing Tupac. The rap world being what it is, this will no doubt lead to notoriety, record deals a...

Let us compare how people expressed their baser instincts, contrasting the 11th-13th centuries and the 20th-21st centuries, via Carl Orff...