I just lack the motivation and the time to post. So here’s a link – a fascinating article for those who like to think about the quirks and foibles of humanity.
I’m posting this here for the benefit of my sister – she’ll probably stumble across it here. But you might enjoy it too Cheating is a thin slice of human nature that doesn’t change. We can grow up, but we … Continue reading
Seth is brilliantly right today. Ask any software developer, though, and they will tell you that Seth’s postulated 2 percent is invariably much greater. 2 percent is the minimum. The baseline. It only goes up from there. Generally, however, programmers … Continue reading
But for a corporation, it just comes naturally.
… but it’s the comments that break my heart.
You don’t suppose giving Obama the Nobel Peace Prize will polarize America, do you? I thought it was supposed to be a Peace prize. I guess you can’t blame controversy. It’s going to happen among contentious people, whatever the spark. … Continue reading
Posting has been sparse this week. I’ve chewed through my entire backlog of postable drafts and so I’m left scrambling. I did run across this story on obesity though. The findings appear to be fresh evidence of a phenomenon that … Continue reading
We all make them. We can’t not make them. They’re how we make sense of the complexity of the world; how we understand what’s going on around us. So when I saw this dude the other day, I immediately knew … Continue reading
Because it highlights real world evil. I guess I chose to post this one because it’s a system evil. More particularly, it’s a system evil which abuses the poor because the poor are easiest to abuse. In computer software, it’s … Continue reading
Kind of a disturbing link, but it illustrates a valid point. Some things work well without a relationship backing them. Other things don’t. This shows up in a clash of cultures – different cultures consider different activities to be relational. … Continue reading