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Title: Sales of "1984" through the roof.
Post by: Purge_WTF on June 13, 2013, 08:52:12 AM

http://money.msn.com/now/post.aspx?post=8dec1cf4-750c-436a-8cae-9001b08c9963&ocid=ansmony11 (http://money.msn.com/now/post.aspx?post=8dec1cf4-750c-436a-8cae-9001b08c9963&ocid=ansmony11)

Good news.

Title: Re: Sales of "1984" through the roof.
Post by: avxo on June 13, 2013, 08:58:32 AM

Quote from: Purge_WTF on June 13, 2013, 08:52:12 AM

http://money.msn.com/now/post.aspx?post=8dec1cf4-750c-436a-8cae-9001b08c9963&ocid=ansmony11 (http://money.msn.com/now/post.aspx?post=8dec1cf4-750c-436a-8cae-9001b08c9963&ocid=ansmony11)

Good news.

Ehh, I don't know. Sales of Lance Armstrong books went through the roof too for a time. Unless you are the person getting the royalty checks, so what?

But there is a silver lining: more metadata for the NSA to mine. ;D

Check out http://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2013/06/09/using-metadata-to-find-paul-revere/ (http://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2013/06/09/using-metadata-to-find-paul-revere/). Even if you don't understand things like matrix multiplication it's worth a read.

Title: Re: Sales of "1984" through the roof.
Post by: Straw Man on June 13, 2013, 09:13:59 AM

I like this one better

Title: Re: Sales of "1984" through the roof.
Post by: chadstallion on June 13, 2013, 11:10:18 AM

thank god; people are reading again.
next up: Upton Sinclair's 'The Jungle'