Jan 31 2006
Maybe going beta addled the Wine developers’ heads. They’ve published benchmarks comparing Wine performance versus Windows XP performance on a number of standardized benchmarks. They’ve currently got Wine in the lead, at least in terms of the number of tests that it “wins.”
Here’s the rub, though. The tests are basically meaningless. You’ll…
Jan 30 2006
Sara Andrews thought it was a big misunderstanding when she received an e-mail from a game master in Blizzard Entertainment’s popular online role playing game “World of Warcraft” citing her for “Harassment - Sexual Orientation.”
Andrews had posted that she was recruiting for a “GLBT friendly” guild in a general chat…
Jan 28 2006
That chart above shows this relationship: The more efficiently the subjects’ brain worked, the bigger their memory capacity. This is not to say that people who can’t screen out stimuli are dumber. As Vogel noted, “Being a bit scattered tends to be a trait of highly imaginative people.” The more…
Jan 28 2006
The Shroud of the Thwacker by Chris ElliottI didn’t choose to read The Shroud of the Thwacker on the strength of Chris Elliott’s career. If you asked me to name a movie that he’s been in, the only one…
Jan 27 2006
What did they really think would happen?
Do-gooding social engineers have bungled an attempt to get more women into sci/tech industries with a TV soap that depicts them making a success of careers traditionally pursued by men.
Lobbyists trying to break the masculine mould in sci/tech jobs came up with the idea…
Jan 27 2006
The Areas of My Expertise by John HodgmanI’d been waiting for this book for a long time. I saw Hodgman on The Daily Show last year, promoting it, and he’s been back several times since as a sort of…
Jan 27 2006
The “I’m 21″ edition.
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Jan 25 2006
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 activity ceased in the areas that deal with negative emotions such as disgust. But activity spiked…