Site of the week: Don’t tell anybody else, but the media sometimes get things wrong. We can be bad with numbers, for example – for many national stories, two occurrences of anything make a “trend,” and three times add up to a terrifying “increasingly.” Folks at George Mason University help clear the hysteria from “trend” stories with astute and rigorous statistical analysis, at stats.org. Suspicious that the methamphetamine and Oxycontin “epidemics” might be overblown? Wondering if oral sex really is “rampant” among teenagers? Check out their website, for a little sanity.
Watch this Web video: Now that LonelyGirl is the biggest thing on the Internet (wait, it’s been 3 seconds, she’s probably already a has-been), time to look for the next YouTube star. Could it be the nerdy adolescent filming his short “Which is worse?” series. Go to youtube.com/watch?v=jSGhDf8AUxQ and decide for yourself, for example, whether it might be worse to be allergic to money or allergic to sex.
-Michael Booth
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Post pop music critic Ricardo Baca is on vacation. For an archive of his podcasts with local bands, go to denverpost.com/music.
