Random Synaptic Firings in a Digital Universe

Snake Oil Science

In life there are various shades of gullibility and naivety. There are those people who need not take precautions in life because bad things only happen to bad people. Then there is the category of person who is taken in by the "because it's science" argument.

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A Failure to Adhere to Web Standards

Microsoft has a very bad reputation for ignoring trivialities like web standards. Just to prove how non-compliant some of the recent browsers are, take a look at the output from the web standards project.

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Revealed: The Remark that Unleashed Zidane's Fury

A number of online sources have corroborated on a lip-read translation of what Materazzi allegedly said to unleash Zidane's rage: Hold on, wait, that one's not for a nigger like you. We all know you are the son of a terrorist whore. So just @!$%# off.

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The Selling Out of Happiness

What makes us as human beings so pathological in our approach to happiness? Why do we stand and accept all those factors that take away from our happiness and propagate situations to remove happiness from ourselves and others.

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De-Humanizing the Victims of Crime

Here are a couple of media clippings taken from recent headlines around the world.

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Newsvine: Lessons from Digg

My first two cyber-stops every morning are Newsvine and then Digg. Both websites have had a big drive recently to update features and provide a comprehensive user experience.

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Parasitic Mind Control of the Back-Seat Drivers

My fascination with parasites has been long standing – With his husky, very colonial accent, David Attenborough had a wonderfully understated way of showing how incredible the interplay between parasite and the preyed upon actually is. Carl Zimmer recently wrote a wonderful pie …

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The Many Wonders of GO

I believe there to be no games that come anywhere close to matching its beauty, elegance and seeming infinite complexity. Emanuel Lasker, a chess grandmaster once stated "it is something unearthly ...

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Creationists, ID and The Flying Spaghetti Monster.

We all know where the creationists stand, God on a whim created the deeply flawed human race about 6000 years ago, the pinnacle of His creative genius.

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Yet Another Link to a Post of a Post of a Post

Achtung Achtung we are all going to die!  It's true I read it on a blog from a blog from a newspaper from a scientific magazine.  It's so sad, I think I need to lie down. In an effort to increase readership, many sources of information are becoming polluted by playing broken

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Blogging, Carbon and Alien Rain

Back in the Blogger days I used a wonderful tool called w.bloggar to post to my blog.

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Time, something we can control in our heads?

I was all of 14 years old and adventuring with my peers on a scouting outride. I had a 12 speed racer back then and most of the ride was an amazing adventure, that is until the hill.

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Abu Ghraib pictures don't get the reaction of cartoons.

As new pictures surface detailing human abuse in Abu Ghraib I have to wonder, where are the hoards of protesting masses? Is everybody having a lie-in after the cartoon explosion? Come on people, where is the sense of righteous outrage at violations of human beings on a most horri

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What is the World's Creepiest Crawly?

We have had some wonderful posting of late about the amazing world of creepy crawlies.  In Carl Zimmer's awesome science blog 'The Loom' he looked at the wasp

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Cartoons an excuse to Fan the Flames of Religeous Fervor?

This is not the first time religion has been misinterpreted nor will it be the last. I very much doubt the sense of outrage we are seeing has much left to do with the publication of the cartoon; it was in my opinion merely a trigger.

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Double standards at play with Cartoon Craziness.

The world has gone crazy, no let me refrain, it has gone completely bloody bonkers, fruity loop and down the rabbit hole.

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Supply of Weapons Undermine Debt Relief in Africa

In an unprecedented show of honesty U.N. advisor Dennis McNamara got to the heart of a lot of the conflict in Africa.

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Cubicles and open-plan offices have to go

I work in an open plan office; I have for 5 years now and let me tell you it doesn't get any better with time.

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Suffer the children, the destitute and the homeless.

There is a conservative estimate regarding the number of street children that scrounge out an existence in India, eighteen million is the number, victims of poverty these children will have very little choice but to perpetuate the cycle of poverty.

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Osama offers truce but continues to back ignoble methods

"He's back …!". Osama Bin Laden is apparently preparing to conduct more attacks on American soil but also offered them a truce …. Ok! I find this all a little incongruous really, I'm preparing to blow you up but let's be friends!

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News bits - 19 January 2005

A group at UCLA is offering students rewards of $100 for ratting out lecturers who are "abusive, off sided or off topic" in advocating political ideologies (a.k.a.

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Daily dribs 'n drabs - 18 January 2006

I can't stand stupidity and buying

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Mr. Computer Fixit

I came across a wonderful article this morning bemoaning the fact that programmers are often lumped in with the hardware-fixit types. I find this hilarious especially since it happens to me all the time.

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Robots go to war

Follow up to this newsvinepost on the push for autonomous robotic soldiers in the future. Based on the Popular Science artice of the same name.

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Fundamentally bewildered by life, the universe and most things. Born with an insatiable curiosity and thirst for knowledge .

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