“Because of a boycott? Because of your impassioned Battle.net forum post where you outline that Blizzard used to make awesome games but they suck now? Nope. People cancelled their accounts and pre-orders. They didn’t threaten. They did.” — The Ghetto » Why Your Internet Boycotts Don’t Work
UC Berkeley Recreates Thought As Digital Video -
In what is perhaps the most significant breakthrough in cognitive neuroscience since the MRI itself, scientists at UC Berkeley have figured out a way to reconstruct brainwaves into digital video. Stop.
Read that again.
Primal Wisdom: Dr. McDougall on B-12: A study in vegan thinking?
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“But when coaching was introduced—when a colleague watched them try the new skills in their own classroom and provided suggestions—adoption rates passed ninety per cent. A spate of small randomized trials confirmed the effect. Coached teachers were more effective, and their students did better on test” — Coaching a Surgeon: What Makes Top Performers Better? : The New Yorker
Don't Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You - Joel on Software
“Contrast this with the fact that there are zero known vegan societies in the history of the human race. Why might that be? A vegan diet without supplementation often leads to B12 deficiency, which causes infertility and miscarriages. Vegan children can experience permanent brain damage. Since pure veganism is at odds with much of our evolutionary experience, I consider it highly experimental and quite dangerous.” — Meat-eating and health
The Vegetarian Myth: Part 1, Moral Vegans
“… If you are entrusting your life data to Facebook, or if you are depending on Facebook and its platform for your livelihood, beware. In the real Facebook world, there is no trust, and there is no friendship — there is only money and power. Think really hard — really, think — before trusting Facebook or its employees with anything.”
(via willhui)
Sadly, this is something I’ve thought about when going up escalators…
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