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an apple, a kiss, a moment of sky
The former head of the HCIL has a new blog, in which he documents his experience switching from Windows to Mac. Note that he describes himself as a power user, but he's also a Windows developer who has in the past been funded by Microsoft Research and has a picture of himself with Bill Gates up on his wall (not that this point negates his ( Read more... ) -
tell me why this is a land of confusion
From Slate: "The crucial health stat you've never heard of"Capsule Summary: If you give people different statistics about an intervention's effectiveness, they perceive the risk differently. Presumably, they also behave differently, but that's not addressed in this article ( Read more... ) -
bring it on, bring it on
I give up on figuring out how to embed video into a post. Or, really, I don't feel like getting a YouTube account, and that's what it appears to take.
Ann Richards in an Alamo Drafthouse PSA. A little NSFW for language. -
if i'm the seated woman with a parasol
Still alive.
Have nothing not banal to say. I'm motoring through my to-do list, trying not to drop any eggs.
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Well, I'm not a master of Psychology yet, but I don't need to defend again. I need to rerun one of my experiments and turn the new draft in next fall (because I can't get participants until next fall, not because I couldn't do it sooner otherwise). I also need to rewrite my intro to include "more Psychology."
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Would anyone like to go to Maryland Day with me this Saturday? I haven't been yet; I have no idea if it's any fun, but I'm kind of curious. -
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Happy birthday donutjay! -
sun is getting dim, will i pay for who i've been?
2006 just keeps getting better and better. I took my new PowerBook in to the Apple Store yesterday to be shipped out for either a seriously dead harddrive or a dead ATA chain -- not only would it not boot from the hd, but it also hung TechTool and the Genius's DriveDiagnostic software ( Read more... )