Interesting Links for 12-11-2011

[andrewducker]

• The King of Human Error - a fascinating piece on the Nobel Prize-winning psychologist who showed how irrational people are.
  (tags: psychology danielkahneman mistakes )
• Children should not be forced to eat everything on their plate. Dessert should never be used as a reward.
  (tags: food children )
• More on the new sandboxing for the Mac Application Store
  (tags: apple computers mac )
• EMI being split up and sold off. We're down to three major labels.
  (tags: music business )
• Screaming the carrier tone - a talent only useful during a tiny fraction of history.
  (tags: modem phone computers )
• Climate change scepticism is a largely Anglo-Saxon phenomenon.
  (tags: language culture climatechange global_warming )
• LiveJournal under DDOS again
  (tags: livejournal ddos internet )
• R.I.P. "Marvelman" Creator Mick Anglo
  (tags: marvelman obituary )
• Outrage as French magazine bombed by Warhammer enthusiasts
  (tags: funny warhammer religion satire islam )

Comments

[torrain.livejournal.com]

Just a minute, honey... I can call you honey, right? Or dear? Maybe pet? >.>

I absolutely agree that gwendally can't see it. However, given that she uses ethnic slurs and would rather go on for a full day about how that's totally fine (in a long and rambling series of answers in which she reiterates factual errors after multiple sourcings of accurate information), I would move to consider her own assessment of whether or not she is unconsciously expressing cultural attitudes towards race to be... weighted. Yes.

Also, cherry-picking meaning so that "anglo-saxon" means what the author may have it mean, but the explicit use of "climate sceptisism" totally gets stripped down to "sceptiscism" and criticised on that level? I'd consider that a bit thin in terms of intellectual honesty.