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Monthly Archives: April 2005

Graphics and Web Design Based on Edward Tufte’s Principles

Thursday, April 28, 2005

From George Washington University:
Graphics and Web Design Based on Edward Tufte’s Principles
This is an outline of Edward Tufte’s pioneering work on the use of graphics to display quantitative information. It mainly consists of text and ideas taken from his three books on the subject along with some additional material of my [...]

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45 Japanese Naked Female Bodies by Akira Gomi

Thursday, April 28, 2005

45 Japanese Naked Female Bodies by Akira Gomi
This girl is my favourite…

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Happy Slapping back in the news

Thursday, April 28, 2005

Smart Mobs cover the topic: Part 1 and 2. Now there is footage too. It is horrible to watch.
For the record, I was on this whole topic two months ago in “The pain of others: Abu Graib, Bumfights, Jackass, Happy Slapping…a new media sadism?”.

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Task Saturation

Thursday, April 28, 2005

Via Eric Mack On-Line:
Fellow productivity blogger, Bert, from Open Loops, posted an excellent comment about how the military helps its pilots extract themselves from overwhelm before they have to extract themselves from their wreckage:
The Air Force calls this Task Saturation. When one is faced with a large volume of tasks, which is what you might [...]

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How to use Greasemonkey scripts in Opera 8

Thursday, April 28, 2005

One of the reasons I even considered leaving Opera and using Firefox was Greasemonkey
Greasemonkey is a Firefox extension which lets you to add bits of DHTML (”user scripts”) to any web page to change its behavior. In much the same way that user CSS lets you take control of a web page’s style, user scripts [...]

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Brainpower drugs coming for sports

Tuesday, April 26, 2005

From The Washington Times:
…Two years ago, the International Chess Federation adopted the World Anti-Doping Agency’s universal drug code, subjecting chess players to the same standards as Olympic sprinters.
…While muscle-building drugs spawn home runs and congressional hearings, a coming era of cognitive enhancement promises boosted brains to rival baseball’s bulging biceps.
Picture a golfer who [...]

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“The Lurkers support me in email”

Tuesday, April 26, 2005

For anyone who has ever disputed in an online forum, this will be highly amusing.

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The Pentagons Psychic Friends Network

Tuesday, April 26, 2005

The following is a review by Michael Shermer of Jon Ronson’s superb book “The Men Who Stare at Goats” (Picador/Pan Macmillan, 2004, ISBN 0330375474), which appeared in The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, May/June 2005. This is from Skeptic.com:
Allison was an attractive Oregonian brunette in a new ageish way, before the new age [...]

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Random picture purge

Tuesday, April 26, 2005

   
 
 

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Race and IQ debate reignited

Tuesday, April 26, 2005

From Eurekalert:
Black-White-East Asian IQ differences at least 50% genetic, major law review journal concludes
A 60-page review of the scientific evidence, some based on state-of-the-art magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of brain size, has concluded that race differences in average IQ are largely genetic. The lead article in the June 2005 issue of Psychology, Public Policy and [...]

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