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Your Moralising Quotient of 0.04 compares to an average Moralising Quotient of 0.24. This means that as far as the events depicted in the scenarios featured in this activity are concerned you are more permissive than average.

Your Interference Factor of 0.00 compares to an average Interference Factor of 0.15. This means that as far as the events depicted in the scenarios featured in this activity are concerned you are less likely to recommend societal interference in matters of moral wrongdoing, in the form of prevention or punishment, than average.

Your Universalising Factor of 0.00 compares to an average Universalising Factor of 0.34. This means you are less likely than average to see moral wrongdoing in universal terms – that is, without regard to prevailing cultural norms and social conventions (at least as far as the events depicted in the scenarios featured in this activity are concerned).

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46.95% of the people who have completed this activity took very little damage and were awarded the TPM Medal of Distinction

Googlitical. Go to Google, type in “Weapons of Mass Destruction,” click I'm Feeling Lucky and see The Result. [MetaFilter]

heh heard about it this morning, its nifty.

The nation's largest intelligence agency by budget and in control of all U.S. spy satellites, NRO is talking openly with the U.S. Air Force Space Command about actively denying the use of space for intelligence purposes to any other nation at any time÷not just adversaries, but even longtime allies, according to NRO director Peter Teets.

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Secret Santa terrorism.

Ottawa Citizen: One of the CIA's secrets — a classified report about a plot by the “Ebenezer Scrooge” terrorist group to attack Santa Claus and his reindeer — has finally been revealed after almost 30 years.

Researchers who recently uncovered the report say the joke memo warning about a potential terror attack on the North Pole, which had been classified “secret” for decades, speaks more about the U.S. government's obsession with keeping information from the public than it does of the black humor of the spies who wrote it.

[The Agonist]

i find this to be silly yet humanizing, i wonder if it was released on purpose.

nodes, or actors, or networks. This is a response to jeremy's comments on actor construction? and a response entry (June 30, 2003) in his blog regarding the relationship of actors and networks as used/presented by the actor-network theory and methodology. Jeremy: “i replied to this on his blog too, but ultimately my position is to… [infoSophy: Socio-technological Rendering of Information]

I continued this conversation on his blog. it is interesting how different people can come to the same theory in different ways. I wrote some of one of the answers to one of my prelim questions on actor-network theory. I think i have a different position than most people on this topic. It is heavily informed by sts literature and continental philosophy.

BOFH and The Engineer. Episode 13 Call out beyond sense of duty [The Register]

new bofh, mmmm, bofh, goooood

TexTales: designed to support mobile public discourse.

Over at the MIT Media Lab is an interesting paper (pdf) entitled Constructing Public Discourse with Ethnographic/SMS ãTextsä.

[Smart Mobs]

this is an interesting text.

McCloud's Micropayments are Here. … and where am I? Yes, Scott McCloud has completed a “mature” new comic called The Right Number, and placed a smidgen of it online for free. The rest can be bought for $0.25 (after you buy a $3 debit… [grandtextauto]

well someone has to experiment with this, i think scholarly publishing and related publishing can't do this as well though, i think it is a different market.