Dusty the cat and this current UK news story ? Heard suggestions on the news this morning (BBC Radio4 Today) that the UK story was in fact a hoax …. don’t see any later updated news …. I’m guessing a meme spurred by 4chan – meme in the (awful) web sense. I mean, who has [...]
Entries from August 2010
Too Much Coincidence ?
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August 25, 2010 at 10:51am
by Psybertron
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The Answer is Facebook
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August 25, 2010 at 10:31am
by Psybertron
If facebook is the answer, what was the question ? The open-graph framework / foundation of the social-layer on which the game-layer will be built. The “game layer”; a pervasive net of behavior-steering game dynamics that will reshape education and commerce. Intriguing TED Talk from Seth Priebatsch. It’s all game theory in practice … so [...]
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Buzz Kill
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August 23, 2010 at 3:12am
by Psybertron
I’ve been disappointed that neither Buzz nor Wave has taken off – both very clever, but both struggling to find the app that even web savvy people can understand. Interesting post here from Leo Laporte (hat tip to Matt) – even much blogging is like shouting into the void – it’s not all conversation – [...]
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Inception
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August 20, 2010 at 7:30am
by Psybertron
Saw it a couple of weeks ago and it left me unmoved, and more to the point impressed at the budget and stunning FX and depressed to see them wasted on such pretentious twaddle (just like Avatar). Read a few reviews since. Guardian, Kermode. Yes, lots of unresolved uncertainty, dreams within dreams leaving disjoints in [...]
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Technographics
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August 20, 2010 at 5:28am
by Psybertron
The demographics of technological involvement from Forrester. Via Brian at Sell, Sell, Sell; via Candace; via Ben at ITIABTWC; via Kirsy at the Whistling Duck; via Get Shouty Katie; with hat tip to Johnnie for pinging his link to Facebook. And even when you follow the provenance back, the best you can find is … This …. [...]
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Cleese on Creativity
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August 18, 2010 at 6:28am
by Psybertron
Brief and simple talk from John Cleese on creating creativity. Via David Pottinger’s “Steps and Leaps” Nice closing piece on “People who don’t know what they’re doing don’t know that they don’t know what they’re doing and therefore cannot appreciate why they don’t know …. etc …”
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Beatles / Floyd / BeeGees
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August 18, 2010 at 4:23am
by Psybertron
Amazing video mash-up. The whole fit … rhythm, music and video, even the band member body-language … they really do look like they’re all jamming over a BeeGees backing track.
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Gerrard’s Cross
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August 11, 2010 at 5:01pm
by Psybertron
Forget your OBE’s, MBE’s, VC’s, knighthoods and peers of the realm. The highest honours in national sporting achievements should be named after the man – no higher honour. I guess if he appeared in Terry Butcher’s blood-soaked head cloth we could elevate him to sainthood maybe. When will we dispense with useless expensive foreign figureheads [...]
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I Was There
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August 6, 2010 at 5:57am
by Psybertron
This NME Photo Tribute to The Clash includes this reference to their 1999 live album From Here to Eternity of their best live moments including London’s Burning from the 1978 anti-fascist gig. Not only was I there Sunday April 30th, 32 years ago, I do record elsewhere that this was the best musical day of [...]
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Consistent Decision-Making Errors
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August 3, 2010 at 3:20am
by Psybertron
Not sure about the science of the monkey experiments, but the view of the subject in Laurie Santos’ TED Talk – humans being consistently programmed to make repeatedly bad decisions – is spot on. Though, in the particular experiments there is no evidence that the decisions are in any sense bad, just consistent.
