A shocking new study reveals that people don’t process political information with their rational brains, but with their hysterical emotions: The test subjects on both sides of the political aisle reached totally biased conclusions by ignoring information that could not rationally be discounted, Westen and his colleagues say. Then, with their minds made up, brain [...]
There’s way too much stupidity in the world to comment on all of it, but sometimes you see something that sets a new standard. The Cato Institute has commissioned Jaron Lanier to explain the Internet, and his contribution makes all the silly drivel written about it in the past look downright serious. Lanier’s main point [...]
I found this in some code I was reading today: /* * Farewell, happy fields, * Where joy forever dwells; hail horrors! * * John Milton, Paradise Lost */ system_reset(); I work for a very literate company, apparently. FacebookTwitterDiggItTechnoratiDel.icio.us
Declan McCullagh is Cnet’s chief political correspondent and an ardent champion of civil liberties, EFF-style*. He runs the Politech e-mail list, a place where such stories as the Little Red Book hoax are given wide currency and writes a column on civil liberties for Cnet, which most recently consists of a hysterical misconstruction of the [...]
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