Archive for the ‘Funny’ Category
Turtle Perspective (from XKCD)
Friday, April 22nd, 2011New Ideas, an Uphill Battle
Thursday, April 21st, 2011From Kevin Kelly, Natural History of a New Idea:
1) Outright wacko.
“This is worthless nonsense”2) Odd but unproven.
“This is an interesting, but perverse, point of view.”3) True but trivial.
“This may be correct, but it is quite unimportant.”4) Obvious.
“What’s new? This is what we’ve said all along.”
Birth of Jesus as Seen Through Social Media
Friday, December 17th, 2010I found it on Gizmodo at The Birth of Jesus According to Gmail, Facebook and Foursquare, where the first comment is awesome:
SPOILER ALERT: Baby grows up to be a conceited prick, gets murdered, then briefly returns as a zombie…
(Silence04)
Ideologically Derived Facts
Friday, August 20th, 2010There’s a great post today on a statistics blog I read, entitled Some things are just really hard to believe: more on choosing your facts. You should read this for yourself, but from my preconceived anti-ideological worldview the truth of it is almost self-evident. Here’s an excerpt:
Of course, it makes sense that people with different judgment of the facts would have different views on policies: if you think carbon dioxide doesn’t cause substantial global warming, you’ll be on the opposite side of the global warming debate from someone who thinks it does. But often the causality runs the other way: instead of choosing a policy that matches the facts, people choose to believe the facts that back up their values-driven policies. The issue about Obama’s birth country is an extreme example: it’s clear that people did not first decide whether Obama was born in the U.S., and then decide whether to vote Republican or Democratic. They are choosing their fact based on their values, not the other way around. Perhaps it is helpful to think of people as having an inappropriate prior distribution that makes them more likely to believe things that are aligned with their desires.
Zombie Apocalypse or Recession?
Wednesday, August 4th, 2010I’ve been delayed posting the follow up to my previous post Network Virtual Appliances Are Silly, for reasons I’ll go into later. Sorry. But for now, I’ll continue to post other stuff as usual. For instance I came across this video, via Nebraska never looked so appealing: anatomy of a zombie attack. Oops, I mean a recession.
