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You know what pisses me off?

Friday, June 12, 2009

Liars. And the idiots who listen to them and go: oh yeah, this thing that you’ve just said contrary to common sense and all my own experience, that must be true because you have said it so authoritatively and because I want to believe it! For instance, here’s one. So if you find yourself saying [...]

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I love this

Thursday, January 29, 2009

As part of the heady intellectual atmosphere around here, we get to listen to Fox News in the cafeteria at all hours. This morning’s hard-hitting journalism was a rant against schools not teaching children cursive anymore. Even better than the raw retardation of this topic as serious news was the way the argument was framed. [...]

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Data is not enough

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

This blog post, from internet-social-research person danah boyd, probably won’t interest you, in and of itself. She’s talking about a study she co-authored on the ‘dangers of the internet’ to children: For the our Task Force Report, I helped create a Research Advisory Board Literature Review where, along with the tremendous help of Andrew Schrock, [...]

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