Just because I love pointing this type of stuff out. There’s a recent study released that’s touting the rise in piracy. From the Globe and Mail:

MR’s fourth annual Digital Music Survey, which polled 1,700 people in the U.K. last month, suggests that illegal music is more popular than ever before, with 43 per cent of respondents claiming that they are illegally downloading tracks, up from 36 per cent last year and from 40 per cent in 2005.

Using their own numbers and a small assumption (that the sample size in 2007 was the same as the sample size in the past), I calculate the standard error on between their 2005 and 2007 numbers to be 3.3% at the 95% confidence level. Given that 43%-40%=3% we now know that there is no statistically significant difference between the number of people claiming to illegaly download tracks between 2005 and 2007.

So the statement “illegal music is more popular than ever” has been debunked. Thank-you and have a good day.

There’s a very thought provoking piece over at Wall Strip. Makes you want to cry.

Have a heart, give a bear hug to short sellers.

If you want to see a post about why being a geek rocks check out my Rotman Blog.

I found another way to Simpsonize yourself. The original post is . This time you upload a photo and it does a piss poor job of making a Simpsons character that looks like you. Here are the two photos:

Note: the original picture of me was quite a bit bigger. I just uploaded a small crappy picture to the blog.

I came across a cool Facebook App. It let’s you visualize your network and ranks the members of your network based on how many photos you have together. My entire network looks like a mess:

A subset of the 50 most connected (shared pictures) friends is more manageable:

The size of the dots indicates connectedness.

Try it out on your network (requires Java 5)

An article on the Globe & Mail claims that there are more women than men in Eastern Canada:

All of this is no news for twentysomething singleton Jennifer Winsor, who has watched more and more young men leave her hometown of St. John’s in search of Albertan cash and out-of-province adventure.

In fact, she’s reminded of the exodus every time she hits the town with her girlfriends.

“It feels like if we go out, there’s girls everywhere, and there’s one guy for every four girls. They’re laughing. They get to pick and choose,” she says of the men in their midst.

“I would like to see more single men. If you can make that happen, that would be great,” she adds.

But the drought isn’t limited only to St. John’s. In Toronto, women outnumber men in every demographic over 20.

I think women in Toronto haven’t gotten the memo about this yet. Hey ladies…

Take a look at this traffic graph for facebook.com vs tunerds.com:

As you can clearly see, the traffic on facebook.com was neck and neck with the traffic on tunerds.com up until 2006. Furthermore, before 2004 tunerds.com had an infinite percentage more traffic than facebook.com. Since 2006, however, facebook.com has had huge growth, leaving tunerds.com behind. As the CEO (Cool Editor Oh-yeah) of tunerds.com I will not stand for this. As of this moment I will be using all of my 1337 interweb and bizzzzz skillz to combat the popularity of facebook.com and ensure that tunerds.com traffic matches that of facebook.com.

Details on my plan in the coming… eventually.

p.s. I’m feeling silly today.

Eve just told me about The Simpsons Movie site that lets you create your own Simpsons Avatar!!!! Mine doesn’t look like me but whatever:

I just wanted to see how well the interface to wordpress worked from my BlackBerry. Pretty well so far…

Yesterday (July 2nd) was Lindsy Lohan’s birthday. She turned 21 and got the privilege of celebrating her ability to legally consume alcohol in Rehab where she is addressing her alcohol problem.