This is a summary of a prison simulation run at Stanford University. (The so-called ‘Stanford Prison Experiment’). It has so many parallels with the behaviour and stories you hear about prison and guard behaviour — for me it was more harrowing to see how the guards developed. If the question were ‘Is power tantamount to [ Read More ]
Archive for April, 2007
I realise that, of late, this has been a dumping ground for things I’ve stumbled across, without any real content from me, guess I’ll need to work on that, in the meantime, here’s some amusing pop-ups cataloged at worsethanfailure.com: Ohhh…. google’s gotta get some stick about this one:
In my job I’m constantly talking about ‘big’ numbers… and sometimes you can lose your sense of perspective. Here’s a quick reminder of what exactly those numbers mean: This is $1 million in pennies (100,016,640 pennies!) Value: $1,000,166.40 Width: 12 feet (7 feet) Height: 12 feet (7 feet) Thickness: 12 feet (7 feet) Total weight: [ Read More ]
Well it made me smile: At least they know their audience… their website is best viewed in Firefox. Nice. (and they have Podcasts….)
Found a quote in an email I sent a while back, still strikes a chord with me. [Update: I've found the full reference and updated it.] Then Almitra spoke again and said, “And what of Marriage, master?” And he answered saying: You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore. You shall be together [ Read More ]
This comment in a post I read online look me by surprise: Their love wasn’t – isn’t – just an act of the emotions. It is an act of the will. They didn’t FALL in love, they voluntarily STEPPED into it. And in love they intend to stay. I’m not sure what my complete reaction [ Read More ]
Categories: personal
I’ve always been a fan of the despair.com take on inspiration posters: I’ve even tried my hand at one or two in my time, helped by the fd’s flickr toys: But these are pure nerdy for those who know far too much about the show, check out the posters on echosphere. PS. I hope the [ Read More ]
Well, the site has been down for a few days, went poking around in the “Options” and changed the permalink structure and as a result I getting “Forbidden You don’t have permission to access /blog on this server.“messages. In the end to fix: renamed the .htaccess file to get in, (kept renaming and moving as [ Read More ]
Categories: blog
My dad has a bundle of tapes that he can’t play any longer because he only has a CD player in his car — so my job of the day was to figure out how to get them onto CD for him… the old “buy the CD” doesn’t work with some of the more… out-dated… [ Read More ]
I’m not sure exactly where I stand of the ‘contraversial’ “Climate Change” debate, I’m in the ring with ‘it’s real and it’s human related’ but the impacts, etc, are still up in the air for me as most of what we see and measure are correlations, with no proof of causation. The Czech President Vaclav [ Read More ]
