Random Linkage

• The folks at RealClimate take time to respond to a recent Wall Street Journal article on global warming (via Tingilinde)
• My former home, Knoxville, is also home to my favorite source of caffeine - Mountain Dew. Originally used as a mixer with Whiskey, it is now merely the basis of much that is good in life (via BlogsWeLuv)
• Andrew takes the time to guide you on how to do your laundry to maximum effect
• MPAA pays hacker to break the law to catch others breaking the law, then ignores him once they have no use for him
  

  In 2005, the MPAA paid Anderson $15,000 for inside information about TorrentSpy — information at the heart of a copyright-infringement lawsuit brought by the MPAA against TorrentSpy of Los Angeles. The material is also the subject of a wiretapping countersuit against the MPAA brought by TorrentSpy’s founder, Justin Bunnell, who alleges the information was obtained illegally.

• Death from airbags that did not deploy
  

  Analyzing a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration database of all traffic fatalities over a six-year period, the newspaper discovered that far more people had died from wrecks where airbags didn’t deploy than all of those who died from injuries caused by airbags that fired too easily or too forcefully.

• Magician David Copperfield cancels shows after FBI search of Vegas warehouse and casino in response to allegations that Copperfield “forced himself” on an unidentified woman

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