Red Vs Blue · Video Archive: “”

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this is the red vs blue movie on red vs blue states and thanksgiving…. it is quite good.

Hacknot: “If you’re like me, you approach the subject of accessibility with a certain self-conscious guilt. On the one hand, you recognize that there are excellent ethical and legal reasons for making your applications – be they web-based or rich client – accessible to those with sensory or cognitive impairments; but on the other hand you can’t ignore the fact that the extra work required to add that accessibility is only going to make a difference to a very small percentage of your users.”

(Via .)

i’m not apathetic about it. i’m audience oriented…. i just have a very narrow understanding of my audience….

How To Ask Questions The Smart Way: “In the world of hackers, the kind of answers you get to your technical questions depends as much on the way you ask the questions as on the difficulty of developing the answer. This guide will teach you how to ask questions in a way that is likely to get you a satisfactory answer.

Now that use of open source has become widespread, you can often get answers from other, more experienced users, rather than hackers. This is a Good Thing; users tend to be just a little bit more tolerant of the kind of failures newbies often have. Still, treating experienced users like hackers in the ways we recommend here will generally be the most effective way to get useful answers out of them, too.

The first thing to understand is that hackers actually like hard problems and good, thought-provoking questions about them. If we didn’t, we wouldn’t be here. If you give us an interesting question to chew on we’ll be grateful to you; good questions are a stimulus and a gift. Good questions help us develop our understanding, and often reveal problems we might not have noticed or thought about otherwise. Among hackers, “Good question!” is a strong and sincere compliment.”

(Via .)

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more people should read this.

I’ve been Nominated…: “JuliaD has nominated me in the “Best use of weblogs within teaching and learning” category of the The Edublog Weblog Awards. Thanks juliaD!…”

(Via Words – big ones and little ones….)

there must be some mistake, people who wear red hats are not nominees.

Former CIA Head Calls for Limiting Access to the Internet: “GMill writes “Former CIA head George Tenet has called for limiting access to the internet to only those who take security seriously and that the industry should ‘lead the way’ in restricting access. Somehow I don’t think that this is a call to ban Microsoft products from the internet. What exactly does he want?”"

(Via Slashdot.)

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why can’t we ban all microsoft products from the internet?

frontline: the persuaders: neuromarketing | PBS: “But 30 years after the commercials debuted, neuroscientist Read Montague was still thinking about them. Something didn’t make sense. If people preferred the taste of Pepsi, the drink should have dominated the market. It didn’t. So in the summer of 2003, Montague gave himself a ‘Pepsi Challenge’ of a different sort: to figure out why people would buy a product they didn’t particularly like.

What he found was the first data from an entirely new field: neuromarketing, the study of the brain’s responses to ads, brands, and the rest of the messages littering the cultural landscape. Montague had his subjects take the Pepsi Challenge while he watched their neural activity with a functional MRI machine, which tracks blood flow to different regions of the brain. Without knowing what they were drinking, about half of them said they preferred Pepsi. But once Montague told them which samples were Coke, three-fourths said that drink tasted better, and their brain activity changed too. Coke “lit up” the medial prefrontal cortex — a part of the brain that controls higher thinking. Montague’s hunch was that the brain was recalling images and ideas from commercials, and the brand was overriding the actual quality of the product. For years, in the face of failed brands and laughably bad ad campaigns, marketers had argued that they could influence consumers’ choices. Now, there appeared to be solid neurological proof. Montague published his findings in the October 2004 issue of Neuron, and a cottage industry was born.”

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manage my brain, know my interests, make me happy…..

well, this is perhaps not as interesting as one would hope, but it does show the extent that the market is reconstructed as scientific object…..

BBC NEWS | UK | ‘We will be able to live to 1,000′: “Curing ageing will change society in innumerable ways. Some people are so scared of this that they think we should accept ageing as it is.

I think that is diabolical – it says we should deny people the right to life.

The right to choose to live or to die is the most fundamental right there is; conversely, the duty to give others that opportunity to the best of our ability is the most fundamental duty there is.

There is no difference between saving lives and extending lives, because in both cases we are giving people the chance of more life. To say that we shouldn’t cure ageing is ageism, saying that old people are unworthy of medical care.”

(Via .)

i only ask…. for whom? i suspect only the superwealthy…..

EUROPA – Research – Science and Society in Europe: Science and society – Governance and scientific advice – SINAPSE: “”

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well this will have some effect…..

Academic and Scholar Search Engines and Sources: “

From Marcus Zillman, this “Internet MiniGuide Annotated Link Compilation white paper titled Academic and Scholar Search Engines and Sources is

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(Via beSpacific.)

this could be handy….