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Blair Tindall's Mozart in the Jungle: a tale of the music industry, "broken down by age and sex" as the careless statistician once put it. And Patrick O'Brian's Master and Commander, the first in his "Aubrey-Maturin" series of nautical novels.
Dan Brown wins in court, and the judge is entertainingly rude about everyone concerned. It's a pity that it wasn't possible for both parties to lose.
From the Department of Statistical Illiteracy (and the Cambridge Evening News):
With about 109,000 people, Cambridge should boast more than 2,000 people eligible to join Mensa. However, there are only 209 members listed in the area -- despite the city's reputation for academic excellence.
Hmm. "Academic excellence". That reminds me of something... Why, yes! I seem to recall that Cambridge has a rather good university, with something like 16,000 students, approximately 99.44% of whom would qualify for Mensa membership, not to mention the academic staff, former students, other large-brained people working for the local high-tech industry, and the like. But hey, what's an order of magnitude between friends?
The society promotes itself as a social organization for the highly intelligent.
A social organization for the highly intelligent? Well, there certainly aren't any of those in Cambridge. I can't imagine why the good people of the city aren't hammering at Mensa's doors.
Famous members of the organisation -- which refuses to confirm or deny any of its membership -- are said to include [...] inventor Sir Clive Sinclair [...]
So the 30-odd names at http://www.mensa.org.uk/mensa/contacts.html, which include that of the Honorary President (a certain Sir Clive Sinclair), are presumably just a cunning trick to deceive the rest of us into thinking we know who some of the members of Mensa are.
David Gries's austerely mathematical guide to constructing correct programs, The Science of Programming.