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Archive for July, 2009

Race Discussions in America

Posted in analysis of behavior, anthropology, tagged , , , , , , on July 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

A strange dialogue takes place in America on a daily basis.  It’s not quite about race, but around it.  The various TV and radio personalities spew their ratings fueled rants.  The White House plops out carefully crafted press statements.  Blogs and the internet spill forth with anonymous dumps of hatred. All these things have something [...]

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The Pain and The Itch Review – Furious Theater @ Boston Court

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , on July 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I have so much to say about this theater experience. For now… just go see it if you are in LA. My impressions coming soon…  they will involve CONSEQUENCES, justifying your beliefs, ENVIRONMENT, RELIGION, NON-RELIGION, family and WAY MORE…

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More To Love Review – Implications+Complications

Posted in Reality TV, Television, social science, tagged , , , , , , on July 28, 2009 | 1 Comment »

So, Fox always pushes it (or so they think)… and now they have More To Love. It’s the Bachelor, only average waist size. Blah. Not so strangely, the show is just as sexist as other reality competition shows.  The stereotypes are fast at work within the first 10 minutes of this show. A) The main [...]

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Exploring the Mind of a Killer – What’s Your Take?

Posted in analysis of behavior, behavior, brain, genetics, science, tagged , , , , , , on July 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Check out this TED talk from Jim Fallon. My take: pretty dicey stuff to kinda just throw out there. Definitely needs a longer talk! Probably not likely that you can “spot bad news” reliably in the family tree using these methods.  Also, by the mere suggestion of “bad news” you alter the course of things. [...]

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Blackberry Storm Tethering Ubuntu 9.04 and Dell Studio XPS

Posted in Computers, Tech Support, software, tagged , , , on July 19, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Yeah, baby.  Got my new DELL Studio XPS working with my Blackberry Storm.  A little bit of futzing and now I’m blogging from verizon 3g. Note: Dell Studio XPS from Best Buy does not have Bluetooth enabled.  You have to use USB.  Doesn’t matter that’s really the only way to go with tethering as BT [...]

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The Accidental Billionaires Review

Posted in Book Reviews, social networks, social science, tagged , , on July 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Ben Mezrich has a winner in The Accidental Billionaires.  It’s just a flat out fun read.  Bought it from bookstore at sometime past 5pm, finished it by 9:30, while squeezing in dinner and what not.  It reads fast and furious because it is FUN and Of The Moment.  Mezrich’s last couple of books I’ve read [...]

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Everything Matters Review

Posted in Book Reviews, anthropology, science, tagged , , , , on July 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Ron Currie Jr delivers a really fun, clever read in Everything Matters! The book cover sells the book as more of comedy than than the sci fi/philosophy/absurdist mystery it is.  The essential question of the book – does anything we do matter? The premise is set up with the unavoidable apocalypse that only the main [...]

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What is Computational Knowledge and What Are The Implications

Posted in Computers, cellular automata, computation, computer science, data mining, science, tagged , , , , on July 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

There’s a great deal of confusion about what is meant by the concept “computational knowledge.” Stephen Wolfram put out a nice blog post on the question for computable knowledge.  In the beginning he loosely defines the concept: So what do I mean by “computable knowledge”? There’s pure knowledge—in a sense just facts we know. And [...]

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Video Game Violence Evolving Dangerously

Posted in analysis of behavior, social science, speculation, truth, video, video games, tagged , , , , , , on July 1, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Read a great piece today (which I found on Slashdot…) on the state of violence in video games.  It’s remarkable in that it’s author is a life long gamer (like myself) and he starts to drop some value anchors. If we come to that, should it be illegal to simulate player imposed suffering of photorealistic [...]

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