REVIEWING THE REVIEWERS: A roundup of book reviews from this weekend.

A 300% ERROR: “A week ago today, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) issued what had to be a hugely embarrassing news release acknowledging that an aggressively promoted and widely cited research report commissioned by the MPAA in 2005 significantly overstated the Internet-based peer-to-peer piracy of college students.” A hair over 293%, actually. But that’s still nothing to brag about.

A LOOK AT new radar technology.

WHY BILL GATES HATES CAPITALISM: “most business people hate capitalism, because capitalism implies competitiion, which business people hate. Especially monopolists like Bill Gates.”

I TALK ABOUT SPACE TOURISM, over at RedBlueAmerica.

BROCK YATES: Car and Driver fired me. Now he’s blogging at The Truth About Cars.

THE MEDIA, STILL TRYING TO martyr Obama? And it used to just be the occasional blog-commenter making Vince Foster jokes. I remember in one of Bruce Sterling’s cyberpunk novels, the way you killed people was to get unstable nuts to go after them. Is this what the media is doing with Obama, putting ideas in people’s heads? Isn’t that kind of irresponsible?

UPDATE: Related thoughts from Tom Maguire.

NANOTECHNOLOGY UPDATE: The Foresight Institute and Battelle unveil A Technology Roadmap for Productive Nanosystems.

URBAN GARDENING TIPS.

SOME INTERESTING NEW AGING RESEARCH.

A SCIENCE FAIR book roundup.

DAVID HARSANYI: Billary is just embarrassing. They don’t seem to be working together well.

BILL BRADLEY IS POSTING continuously updated reports from Florida, including firsthand reports from blog-correspondents around the state.

IN THE MAIL: Steven M. Teles’ The Rise of the Conservative Legal Movement: The Battle for Control of the Law. Favorably blurbed by both Robert George and Jack Balkin!

IS TECHNOLOGY TRULY ADDICTIVE? I think that yammering on about addictions is the habit that some people need to kick . . . .

MICHAEL YON EMAILS: “Major offensive has begun in Mosul. This is likely Al Qaeda’s last real stand in Iraq. Surely they will continue to murder people for a long time, but they are running out of places to hide. Just arrived Kuwait. Should be in Iraq tomorrow and will be in the middle of it.” I look forward to the reports.

THOUGHTS FROM TIGERHAWK on why Bush seemed happy, including a rather positive assessment of the Iraq/Iran situation from Stratfor.

IS SNOPES pushing adware? I looked on Snopes and it said it was just an urban legend . . . .

THE SOCIOLOGY OF CAMPUS HOOKUPS.

MAYBE IT’S BECAUSE EVEN ALAN KEYES’ SUPPORTERS can’t spell his name right.

AT SAMIZDATA, a leaked document on Britain’s plans for implementing national ID.

LIFT A TON AND A HALF, with a bicycle pump.

THE FLORIDA PRIMARY: Continuously updated coverage at Pajamas Media.

A “NO GROWTH” BUDGET in Tennessee.

DANIEL GLOVER ON THE POWER OF PORKBUSTERS:

I’ve been tracking the power of the blog here at Beltway Blogroll since June 2005, and as my days at National Journal come to a close this week, I can say unequivocally that Porkbusters is the most successful demonstration I have seen of that influence. It is also the one with the greatest staying power.

It’s true that pork is still a problem and will remain one as long as Americans choose to elect panderers rather than statesmen. As I noted in November 2005, it’s next to impossible to catch the greased pig in Congress.

But you simply can’t deny that pork is a prominent policy issue now because of Porkbusters. Until bloggers across the political spectrum started ranting about pork after Hurricane Katrina, nobody outside of Republican presidential candidate John McCain, television broadcaster John Stossel and groups like Citizens Against Government Waste seemed to care — and all of their outrage went unheard by Washington’s powerbrokers.

Now the president is tackling the issue in the State of the Union. That is blog power, my friends.

We just need to keep after them on this issue.