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Posted on Wednesday, 9 June, 2010 By yours truly | TOOLS: Talk or Share
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“Hindsight bias is the inclination to see events that have occurred as more predictable than they in fact were before they took place. Hindsight bias has been demonstrated experimentally in a variety of settings, including politics, games and medicine. In psychological experiments of hindsight bias, subjects also tend to remember their predictions of future events as having been stronger than they actually were, in those cases where those predictions turn out correct. This inaccurate assessment of reality after it has occurred is also referred to as ‘creeping determinism.’” — Wikidpedia
BP would have done all those things differently if they could turn back time, I’m sure.
Read: British Petroleum has a long record of bold claims and clever slogans.
Posted on Monday, 19 April, 2010 By yours truly | TOOLS: Talk or Share
New sign proposed for U.S. border control following the beating of science fiction author Dr Peter Watts who was just trying to head home to Canada and was clubbed, gassed, charged with a felony, and left in wet clothes in an unheated cell overnight during a snow-storm just for asking why his car was being searched. Thanks Boing Boing.
Posted on Saturday, 27 February, 2010 By yours truly | TOOLS: Talk or Share
Lesson #579 at Surviving the World. Thanks, dude.
Posted on Friday, 19 February, 2010 By yours truly | TOOLS: Talk or Share
Some pissed off DVD watcher really wanted to just get to his Matrix, I guess. Can’t give an attribution here, because I don’t know who did it, but this thing has been floating around the webosphere all day it seems, and I love a good graphical display of an issue. Marketing bloat is to DVDs what software bloat is to Windows.
Posted on Sunday, 14 February, 2010 By yours truly | TOOLS: Talk or Share
The problem with i.imgur.com stuff is you never know who makes it. Thanks to whomever is responsible.
Posted on Monday, 11 January, 2010 By yours truly | TOOLS: Talk or Share
Watch the skies.
I’m donating today’s post to Orsen Welles (or, to be exact, Orsen Welles as he was in 1955). The Januarist posted a segment of a transcrips from Welles’ BBC programme from back in the day, called Sketchbook.
You can read the transcripts here or (because of DRM restrictions) if you’re in the UK, you can watch it on BBC iPlayer. Anyone finding a worldwide-available recording of this, please send it on and I’ll sub out the BBC link.
In the National ID chip-and-pin age when governments and commercial interests compete for who can keep the best tabs on citizens/consumers, this is an amazing reminder on the importance of the rights of the individual. I’d say it tops War of the Worlds.
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It’s absolutely deplorable that this country treats ideology and intellectual debate the way it does. But: we owe to this its ironies. Its tolerance. Its decision not to take too seriously what in other countries have proved fatal challenges. It is my conviction that had the infinite rhetorical genius of Adolf Hitler been tested on Hyde Park Corner, people would have said, ‘Ah, come off it,’ and walked away.
