interesting things
Apple plans an overhaul of iTunes that would mark one of the largest changes to the world’s biggest music store since its 2003 debut, according to people with direct knowledge of the matter. Apple will unveil the changes by the end of the year, said the sources. The world…
via NY Post: Business http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/apple_itunes_overhaul_6BD1joDBxn4e6WHYWl1xLK?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20Business
Louis C.K. is bypassing services like Ticketmaster and offering tickets to his next tour for a flat $45 through his own Web site.
via NYT > Most Recent Headlines http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/26/louis-c-k-gets-into-the-ticket-selling-business/
EXCLUSIVE: Claire McCaskill tells TPM she’s skipping the Democratic convention.
via Talking Points Memo http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2012/06/huh_5.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Talking-Points-Memo+%28Talking+Points+Memo%3A+by+Joshua+Micah+Marshall%29
While current American Heart Association heart failure prevention guidelines warn against habitual coffee consumption, some studies propose a protective benefit, and still others find no association at all. Amidst this conflicting information, new research attempts to shift the conversation from a definitive yes or no, to a question of how much.
via ScienceDaily: Latest Science News http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/06/120626131852.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Latest+Science+News%29
Letter to Romenesko
From JACK EL-HAI:
News tip: Blogger accused of plagiarizing himself gets no credit
No, I’m not referring to Jonah Lehrer. I’m a freelance writer and book author who recently began blogging. In my blog I’ve been mining years of published articles that have been sitting around doing nobody, especially me, any good and to which I retain copyright ownership.
Last Friday, I blogged my story about a study during the 1930s in which a medical student ate nothing but White Castle hamburgers for 13 weeks. I had previously published this story in Minnesota Monthly magazine (2006) and in the magazine and blog of the Minnesota Medical Foundation of the University of Minnesota (2008). The medical foundation’s blog was not bylined.
When my blog post went up, I received via Twitter and blog comments several accusations that I had plagiarized the story from the U of M blog. Of course, I had written that story and retained publication rights to it. I managed to straighten out most of those people and even got apologies from a few.
Meanwhile, Gothamist and the Daily Mail of the UK got ahold of my Tweets or blog link and published their own stories on the White Castle study. (They’re here and here.) Neither story credited me with the original reporting, and only the Gothamist article linked back to my post. Both stories linked to the unbylined U of M blog post.
This odd sequence of events shows that readers care about the originality of what they read, and some news organizations put no thought into confirming the sources of their stories. They treat blogged material as press releases. What if everything in my original story was wrong? (It isn’t.) If the Daily Mail and Gothamist had done a minimum of fact-checking, they would have come to me, since I’m the only person who has ever reported the White Castle story. I like to see my stories recirculate, but I want the new articles to credit me for credibility’s sake and for my greater glory.
THE ORIGINAL
* 13 weeks eating nothing but White Castle (el-hai.com)
THE RIP-OFFS
* The bizarre White Castle experiment of 1930 that proved hamburger diet “healthy†(Gothamist)
* Bizarre experiment involved man eating only burgers for THREE MONTHS (Daily Mail)
via JIMROMENESKO.COM http://jimromenesko.com/2012/06/26/blogger-would-like-some-credit-for-his-white-castle-piece/
It appears the U.S. Supreme Court will soon have another opportunity to make an epochal decision, and perhaps screw up progressive governance more than it already has (and perhaps soon will): the U.S. Court of Appeals for DC has dismissed a big batch of challenges to the EPA’s power to regulate industry with respect to greenhouse gas emissions.
Grist’s Philip Bump provides a good summary of the decision, along with this general take:
The findings uphold the agency’s rules defining limits to the emission of greenhouse gas pollution under the Clean Air Act. Specifically, the court ruled: Yes, the agency acted properly in determining that CO2 is a danger to public health; yes, it was right to use that determination to regulate vehicles; and yes, it was within its authority to determine the timing (Timing Rule) and scope (Tailoring Rule) of the regulations.
The sweeping nature of EPA’s victory in court was unexpected. So yeah, it’s likely our friends on the High Court will have a look.
via Political Animal http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2012_06/next_big_case_for_supremes_aft038187.php
SALEM, Va. – If the Supreme Court strikes down the Affordable Care Act this week, President Obama will have “wasted†most of his first term, presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney said Tuesday.
“As you know, the Supreme Court is going to be dealing with whether or not Obamacare is constitutional. If it is not – if Obamacare is not deemed constitutional — then the first three and a half years of this president’s term would have been wasted on something that has not helped the American people,†Romney told a crowd of about 1,500 voters at Carter Machinery Company, one of the leading Caterpillar machine dealerships in the country.
The Supreme Court is expected to issue its ruling Thursday. On Monday, in another major ruling, it struck down most of a controversial Arizona immigration law. The decision was viewed largely as a victory for the Obama administration, but Romney used it to attack Obama for not passing immigration reform during his first year in office.
‘I WILL BE OUTSPENT’…
via DrudgeSiren.com – All Stories http://www.drudgesiren.com/recentTopStories.php
German artist Heinz Schulz-Neudamm created the poster for the 1927 German Expressionist science-fiction film Metropolis by Fritz Lang. A collector bought the futuristic poster for a record $690,000 back in 2005, which is still a record.
The poster has been assigned a $250,000 value in a bankruptcy filing by its current owner Kenneth Schacter, according to The Guardia, but it went up for sale with an $850,000 list price in March and some say it could be the first poster to sell for $1 million.
Schulz-Neudamm’s painting of the artificial woman, or the Robot, is used by a mad scientist to seduce an race of workers in a totalitarian futuristic urban city. Made in Germany during the Weimar Period, Metropolis is set in the year 2026 in a dystopian society in which a wealthy elite rules from vast tower complexes, oppressing the workers who live in the depths below. The silent film was written by Lang and his wife Thea Von Harbou, and starred Brigitte Helm, Gustav Fröhlich, Alfred Abel and Rudolf Klein-Rogge. In 2008, a print of Lang’s original cut of the film was found in Argentina.
The poster is the film’s most familiar promotional image, though at the time others were used as well for its promotion.
[Source: The Guardian]
via Movieline http://movieline.com/2012/06/26/metropolis-fritz-lang-heinz-schulz-neudamm/
How the GOP and the NRA spun a government gunrunning program gone wrong into an all out ‘They’re Going To Take Your Guns’ conspiracy theory.
via Talking Points Memo http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2012/06/the_fast_furious_fever.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Talking-Points-Memo+%28Talking+Points+Memo%3A+by+Joshua+Micah+Marshall%29