Thursday, August 31, 2006
The Usual Suspects [MUST READ]
An extraodinarily brilliant examination of Tom Schelling’s Game Theory concepts about the use of will, using the character Keyser Soze from the Usual Suspects.
The dramatic screen dialogue is matched by the mathematical precision of the game-theoretic concept of commitment for which Tom Schelling was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics. The Nobel [...]
Thursday, August 31, 2006
From The Two Apes within Us: Hippy Sex Fiends and Brutal Machiavellians - SPIEGEL ONLINE
De Waal: The evolutionary struggle for survival is really a self-serving series of blows and stabs, and yet it can lead to extremely social animals like dolphins, wolves or, for that matter, primates. I call the notion that we are nothing [...]
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
The Operation - legendary porn flick filmed in infrared
(tags: porn medicine film media sex art)
BBC NEWS | Middle East | Israeli views on Shebaa Farms harden
“The whole issue of the Shebaa Farms was a pretext to continue fighting Israel after it departed in 2000,” said Gary C Gambill, editor of Mideast Monitor. “The words [...]
From Moving Heavy Things: Books: Jan Adkins
Precept Five: Applied Sloth
As stated in the stagehand’s axiom: “Never lift what you can drag, never drag what you can roll, never roll what you can leave.” Creativity germinates in indolence, and the cleverest people are often the laziest: they are always looking for an easier way. The easiest [...]
UNIFIL broadcast real time Israeli troop movements throughout the war
(tags: hezbollah israel terrorism war warfare strategy)
Your Name in Japanese :: Japanese Translator .co.uk
(tags: japan language linguistics tool tools fun translation resources)
A.I. Gone awry - Skeptic: The Magazine
For decades now computer scientists and futurists have been telling us that computers will achieve human-level artificial intelligence soon. [...]
Juicy Carolina
These two latest shots have restored her credibility.
Unity in Psychology: The Search Starts Here
Psyblog attempts to get a unification movement underway in psychology. In short, a map of how the various schools and disciplines overlap and complement each other.
(tags: psychology philosophy consilience unification)
“Free To Choose” TV Series by Milton Friedman
The legendary economist Milton Friedman’s television show “Free to Choose” is now available [...]
Thursday, August 24, 2006
From American Scientist Online
Oscar Wilde said, “Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.” But how do we learn where to draw these lines? It’s commonly understood that moral rules are instilled in church, school and home, but Harvard psychologist Marc Hauser believes that they have a deeper source‚Äîan unconscious, built-in “moral grammar” that [...]
Thursday, August 24, 2006
From Digital Camera University come a primer on how to look better in photos.
In summary:
Step 1 - If you are standing, turn slightly and rest your weight on one foot. It may FEEL goofy, but you WILL look better. If you are sitting, angle to one side or the other.
Step 2 - [...]