Quantcast

WWII Propaganda Posters

Propaganda Posters bq. Most of the images on this page are of U.S. propaganda posters used in World War Two to motivate millions of Americans in the successful effort to defeat the Axis Powers in World War Two. Some of these posters are “chilling” in the emotional impact they make. Many of the posters are ...

RIAA Lying With Statistics

Moses Avalon posted a great US article on interpreting the RIAA’s figures. When the RIAA discusses sales, they mean shipments to retailers, *NOT* purchases by consumers. While shipments to retailers may be down, sales to consumers as measured by Soundscan are actually *UP* . bq. There is only one logical integration of all these statistics ...

iChat TV

Simon Thornton: A Mutual Misunderstanding bq. The recent versions of iChat have, of course, brought with them the capability to use a video source (for most people, that would mean an iSight, or a USB webcam using a hack to get it to work in iChat – see my old post about that, or even ...

MT 3.0 Quickpost-Opera Bug

The quickpost bookmarklet produced by Movabletype 3.0D inserts %20 in the place of spaces into the bookmarklet code. This causes Opera 7.5 to choke on the javascript. To fix the quickpost, just replace any occurances of %20 with a space.

100k Income in a 800k House

the family economy | Metafilter references an article in the Washington Monthly discussing whether or not we’re in a housing bubble right now. bq. Truth is, in most of the country there’s no housing bubble. Perhaps the crucial ratio from which economists determine whether housing markets are out of whack is the ratio of home ...