"If you go to Google Trends and track the number of times [steampunk] is mentioned, the curve is almost algorithmic from a year and a half ago."

Ah, yes. We love the MSM and their rigorous sub-editing.

"60% of the world's painting". Where on earth are you getting that from? It's not in the linked article, and it's frankly implausible.

The article talks about "reproduction oil paintings". 60% of the world's reproduction oil paintings - that I could believe.

"occult books are, by their nature, anomalous and hard to categorize"

Everybody thinks this about their pet subject. *Nothing* fits into a library classification, but people still persist in believing that the system works for every subject they don't knwo anything about. Doubtless the dissertation tackles the whole thing more rigorously, though.

#3: I recently found one volume of Illuminatus! filed under Popular Science. This amused me enough that I bought it to re-read.

That picture isn't from the 1936 olympics, despite the mail's confused caption ("1938 olympics"!). It's from a 1938 England-Germany soccer game.

I hate to link to the daily mail on this (especially given the paper's support for the Nazis), but one of their other articles correctly labels it. You can see another shot of the same salute, and more detail, in a bbc article

And yes, please don't take the mail seriously. I'm glad they're getting angry about this issue, but there are much less hideous papers printing similar articles - quite probably with less mistakes. Try the Guardian or the Telegraph , for example

Why is this turning into a general pro/anti FOSS debate? Many people (myself included) have had a bad experience with Chandler - one particular F/OSS project. That doesn't say anything about open-source in general - except that, like any other projects, open-source projects can go wrong.
It's a shame that Chandler ending up sinking a lot of time and money into something that never got anywhere - but that doesn't mean FOSS in general is doomed.

Also, Australia's new Minister of the Environment is a former member of Midnight Oil.