July 2010
“The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the...”
– Pierre Abelard (via azspot)
I’m not so sure about that.
<ba-dum-ching!>
Ground Zero (Feels Like 100+)
Most of the US is in a heat wave, but Tulsa’s at the epicenter:
July 13th: ‘Excessive Heat Warning’ Issued For All Of Northeast Oklahoma
July 18th: Excessive Heat Warning Extended Through Tuesday
July 21st: Excessive Heat Warning For Tulsa Area Extended Through Friday
We are now in our ELEVENTH DAY of this ONE Excessive Heat Warning.
And judging by the forecast,...
Philosophical zombie →
A philosophical zombie, p-zombie or p-zed is a hypothetical being that is indistinguishable from a normal human being except that it lacks conscious experience, qualia, or sentience. When a zombie is poked with a sharp object, for example, it does not feel any pain. While it behaves exactly as if it does feel pain (it may say “ouch” and recoil from the stimulus, or tell us that it...
Forget Brainstorming →
Brainstorming in a group became popular in 1953 with the publication of a business book, Applied Imagination. But it’s been proven not to work since 1958, when Yale researchers found that the technique actually reduced a team’s creative output: the same number of people generate more and better ideas separately than together.
None of us are as dumb as all of us.
(via @fritinancy)
Swearing in the Workplace - Business Intelligence →
This is the most shameless example of ginning up click counts I have ever seen.
Click through the “”slideshow”” and you’re treated to the same image twenty times, with what probably started as pull-quotes in an actual article superimposed.
DoctorSexercise.com →
I love ambiguous domains.
incorrigiblerobot:
How can it be hoarding if I threw it out?
The… other day.
No, YOU need professional help.
I’m not sure if this is better or worse.
2 Men Wanting To Be OKC Officers Arrested →
Jacob Duane Teehee, who is 21, was in jail Monday in lieu of $2,000 bond. He faced an out-of-state warrant and also three local warrants of driving under the influence, careless driving and unlawful transportation of an open container.
Rule number one of applying to be a police officer: Do not have outstanding warrants.
Also: “Teehee” (tee-hee)
County in Oklahoma or ฿2000 “extra” in...
Turns out it’s not hard at all to decide to get hearing aids—once to realize that someone you love is learning to talk and you’ve been giving her faulty feedback.
Be excellent, Voice Control
Me: Shuffle
Voice Control: No music is playing. Do you want to play music now?
Me: Yes
Voice Control: Shuffle on
Me (internally, with VC's voice): , dude.
Amount of overlap in hearing aid makes and models...
None.
It’s worse than consumer electronics retailers.
Sensorineural hearing loss →
Not unexpected, and mild so far.
Now I have to decide if I’m ready for hearing aids.
“That’s cute.”
– Emerson, after watching “Hi Em, Hi Dad”
“In many ways you are a wiser, smarter more experienced person than you were in...”
– Scott Berkun
Lazy Tumblr: What classical or neo-classical piece...
Timothy McSweeney's Internet Tendency: I'm Comic... →
When people need to kick back, have fun, and party, I will be there, unlike your pathetic fonts. While Gotham is at the science fair, I’m banging the prom queen behind the woodshop. While Avenir is practicing the clarinet, I’m shredding “Reign In Blood” on my double-necked Stratocaster. While Univers is refilling his allergy prescriptions, I’m racing my...
List of cognitive biases - Wikipedia, the free... →
Cognitive biases are instances of evolved mental behavior. Some are presumably adaptive, for example, because they lead to more effective actions in given contexts or enable faster decisions when faster decisions are of greater value. Others presumably result from a lack of appropriate mental mechanisms, or from the misapplication of a mechanism that is adaptive under different circumstances.
Availability heuristic - Wikipedia, the free... →
The availability heuristic is a phenomenon (which can result in a cognitive bias) in which people predict the frequency of an event, or a proportion within a population, based on how easily an example can be brought to mind.
Creative Screenwriting Magazine →
Mentioned on Mac Break Weekly this week, this podcast is incredible.
For The Record
The one time I was in Cleveland, I did neither of those things1.
I cannot, however, speak for the other members of my family. ↩
“I don’t begrudge him the right to play somewhere other than Cleveland....”
– Drew Magary (ht Michele)
mikemonteiro:
Poll: On Flickr, do you prefer your titles above or below the photo?
It’s a heading, Flickr. Even your markup says so. Put it on top1!
and at the risk of being all “make the logo bigger”, it really needs a heavier font-weight, especially if you keep it where it is. ↩