Includes stuff about anything where feedback causes the system to adapt, including the systems of nature, those that are man-made or cultural, and those of the human mind.
Sometimes I think Scott Adams (yes, the Dilbert guy) is just throwing outrageous stuff out there on his blog, to provoke reactions. I can’t tell if this article, on getting rid of cash and making all financial transactions digital, is one of those though, or if he truly believes that it’s possible. It would offer …
Although I might object to the term “good liar,” the idea is sound.
I thought they were scary enough already!
To go along with my last entry on weird laws, here are another fifty. Sometimes you have to wonder what universe lawmakers actually come from. Apparently many of these are misinterpretations at the very least, and probably deliberate, but they’re funny anyway. I love a bit from BB’s comments: “Michigan: a slice of the deep …
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…I’m sure by now you’ve heard about lawmaker Joe Barton’s oil-money-fueled apology to British Petroleum earlier this week. He was later forced by his own political party to retract it, but that hasn’t stopped incensed citizens from coming up with mocking sites like this one. This is definitely both amusing and appalling. I, for one, …
We all know them, and politics in the last decade has had some notable representatives of the species. Now you can start to understand why they’re so confident. It’s not just dumb people. Most beginning programmers, for instance, are incredibly confident after only a few months of learning (and yes, I was one of them …
It seems that my frequent bouts of programming may have something to do with my lack of desire to socialize most of the time. From The Dilbert Blog: […] During one period of my life I wrote a number of computer programs that involved intense manipulation of objects in my mind, for hours each day. …
Interesting research. Not surprising though, I noticed a long time ago that some of my memories — things that I know are actual events — have gotten mixed up in my head with things that I also know didn’t happen at the same time.
Wow… it’s actually illegal to have an indoor bathtub in Virginia. That could explain a lot. 😉 (Disclaimer: I’m allowed to say that because I lived in Virginia for several years, and several of my beloved — and not so beloved — relatives still do.)
Procrastination is one of my bad habits, and this article helps explain why it has been so difficult to overcome. I’m usually pretty good at identifying my mental landscape, but it never occurred to me to see why I procrastinate.