I’ve written before about confirmation bias from a more negative, or cynical perspective. This fascinating article about the practice of noticing touches on some of the same ideas but from a much different (and more useful) angle.
I’ve noticed in my own life that i don’t notice nearly as much external (potential) stimulus as i would [...]
Ahem… My Rhapsody Channel, i think it’s about time that we sit down and talk about our relationship. Don’t act surprised, Rhapsody Channel, i’m sure you knew that we were headed to this point. You must have seen this coming. And now here we are. Let’s just get it over with so we can both [...]
I know this is kind of old news now, but i’m going to bring it up here anyway, just to ask the following question:
What does it say about your country when your nation’s chief law-enforcement officer says that, “not every wrong, or even every violation of the law, is a crime.”?
What a spectacular stretch of [...]
I had a running joke for a while where i would constantly suggest ridiculously utilizing overhead space when considering living room rearrangements. My girlfriend would contemplate where to put the television with respect to the couch and my immediate suggestion would be to hang it from the ceiling. Whatever it was, hang it from the [...]
This video doesn’t quite do it justice (or maybe i’m just turned off by the fact that the struggling matchwork is matched only by the struggling camerawork), but burning a ping pong ball is a helluva lotuvfun. Ping pong balls are cheap and they burn as interestingly (imho) as any item that simple.
But it [...]