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Dry mouth personal epic spike – queue the music…

Posted in analysis of behavior, media, tagged , , , , , , , on June 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Have you ever had a period where the events and your surroundings conspired to mash together perfectly to take you away from your ordinary, usual, rarified and all too cool reality you live – transporting you to a level that is literally “whelming”?  …You ever had that?  I have.  I am doing it again; perhaps [...]

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An Interesting Cellular Automata

Posted in automata, information theory, tagged , on June 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

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Corporate Anthropology

Posted in analysis of behavior, business strategy, economics, media, tagged , , , on June 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I found this story on Slashdot.  The dude has a good approach.  It’s a messy world with more questions than answers.
“I specialise in taking teams of designers, psychologists, usability experts, sociologists and ethnographers into the field. It’s called “corporate anthropology”, but personally I’m more comfortable with “design research“, because I’m not an anthropologist by training. [...]

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Walking Talking Technology

Posted in analysis of behavior, data mining, economics, information theory, media, online advertising, social networks, traffic, tagged , , , , , , , , , on June 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

The ritual:
Using speech-to-text software trained to my voice, I get to process the world’s media (including environmental sounds) in a way that usurps the originator’s intent and content. The software is as imperfect as my notes are and misrepresents sentiments as well as police sirens as text, translating the mumblings as dialogue.  What’s more, [...]

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Come on… put it out there… you know you want to!

Posted in analysis of behavior, economics, media, politics, social networks, traffic, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on June 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I have just received for the 12th time this week a virus wannabe email that purports to say that the writer has grave concerns for this country….etc.
In response to the person of known evangelical everything [non-religious meaning] to pass on emails, I gave the following challenge: 

Nice to see your name in my inbox.
 
This has an interesting kind [...]

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Code Swarm

Posted in analysis of behavior, economics, product development, software, tagged , , , , , , , on June 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

This is a nice post today on visualizing the participation of users in popular open source projects.
Good lead in for the study I’m going to do on the upcoming N-Brain competition.

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It is the cosmos, not “Cosmo”

Posted in analysis of behavior, politics, social networks, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on June 13, 2008 | 2 Comments »

 
Boy, has that a lot of meanings….

But consider this version of ‘cosmos’…
 
According to Lawrence Krauss of NEWScientist magazine, David Brook wrote in The New York Times in May that
 

“…while we moderns see space as a black, cold, mostly empty vastness, with planets and stars propelled by gravitational and other forces, Europeans in the Middle [...]

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Tim Russert Dies of Heart Attack

Posted in analysis of behavior, economics, media, politics, tagged , , , , on June 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

This sucks.  Catch the news here.
Tim Russert was pretty much a badass.  I’m actually fairly sad about this.  I rarely miss Meet the Press (it’s a behavior schedule deeply set in).  90% of my election coverage comes via Russert.  Man, what a schedule change.
Beyond that though, this does change the election.  Can’t predict how, but [...]

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Dukes of Hazzard Value System

Posted in analysis of behavior, media, philosophy, politics, social science, tagged , , , on June 12, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Take a deep breath as you’re going to cry or laugh at this next post.
“Ben Jones figures he drank 43,000 beers, 2,000 jugs of whiskey, wine, gin and vodka, and smoked pounds of pot in the 20 years he was out of control.
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“”A year later,” he said, “I walked into an audition and was cast [...]

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Universal Healthcare – Universal Language

Posted in analysis of behavior, politics, tagged , , , , , on June 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Here’s a speech given by my mother.  Aside from any political values, I think it exposes an interesting language (concept) problem we have in our culture – the idea of inherent character flaws.  I don’t always agree with my mom’s language or her conclusions, but I do agree that attacking our many difficulties in society [...]

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