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Commented on Understanding the psychology of authoritarianism
After reading a bit I agree with dennismoebly; the model UN cited in the book is one example. In this case the author separates the Authoritarians and non-Authoritarians, and has each group play a model UN simulation where they pretend...
Commented on Understanding the psychology of authoritarianism
Based on the facts established in this book, 167% of Boingboing readers support giving electric shocks to Authoritarians....
Commented on Mac|Life imagines Apple products of the future
I agree with Angstrom, the 3D printer idea is mainly interesting for the types of DRM that it will have, and the proprietary interface to the iMake application, reminiscent of IBM in the 60's. More likely by 2015 they'll have...
Commented on Opium dens of 1889 San Francisco in photos
How little has changed. Nowadays the city pays for the drug dens, but apart from that it's quite similar. Here's a blog that covers the current version: http://www.bluoz.com/blog/ ....
Commented on Lou Jing, half black Chinese girl, sparks race debate in China
Mixed-race children often attract favorable attention in Asia, but it often becomes suspicion as they become adults. Our own kids got an enormous amount of attention in Korea as infants; there was one day where everybody at a department store...
Commented on Do you understand my first-grade child's homework?
"Everyday Math"? Draw in the number of additional counters specified by the second operand. Decompose into 10+x. This is fairly common mental computation task, eg for any addition which shifts the 10's digit. These days the tricks are taught formally,...
Commented on Fake Steve Jobs v. NYT over Zynga-gate
Meh, both were scooped by somebody in South Carolina: http://news.sc/2009/10/19/company-using-facebook-to-scam-children/ ....
Commented on Xeni on Rachel Maddow Show: World Wide Web grows wider, more worldly
This is a bit confusing. All this announcement means is that new TLD's can be created in non-Latin characters. Domain names under some existing TLD's can already be created in non-Latin scripts. I was unaware of the latter, but I...
Commented on Anvil Shooting: using explosives to fire anvils -- yes, ANVILS -- into the air
I ran across this over the summer while looking for videos of July 4th in Northern California: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN4EICtf1mo We apparently missed this gleefully destructive activity while we were there....
Commented on Boing Boing guest blogger: Connie Choe!
Everything is coming up Kimchi these days. My wife's family just started a Kimchi brand in Korea this year....
Commented on Inside Antiques Roadshow
San Jose, and nobody brought in a computer?...
Commented on Gap founder's amazing art collection may leave San Francisco
The sky did not fall: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/09/25/MNVC19S49B.DTL...
Commented on Daredevil LA tagger "Buket" of YouTube fame gets nearly 4 years in jail.
The judge is simply expressing himself through the medium of imprisonment. Who are we to say that this is not art?...
Commented on Incredible Star Wars collection display
That's a nice quote at the beginning: "The grand dreams of today make the me of tomorrow". He apparently was inspired by SW to become a graphic designer. This reminds me a lot of the Toykino museum in Bukchon in...
Commented on 1,000 surveillance cameras = 1 solved crime in the UK
The problem is that the camera deniers keep adding and subtracting zeroes from their figure for the number of cameras. This article also decries the horrible expenditure of public funds for London CCTV cameras, but on only 10,000 cameras (get...
Commented on HOWTO make a cheap ECG with an old PC sound-card
So for the last 20+ years, nobody noticed that a sound card has an A/D converter on it? A long time ago I had a job programming an A/D converter for an EEG lab. Apart from a few features, such...
Commented on City of San Francisco promises to "open its data" with DataSF.org
This looks like a fairly standard GIS data clearinghouse. Some of the data, such as police calls for service, hasn't been available before. Some of the data access is RESTful....
Commented on Gap founder's amazing art collection may leave San Francisco
San Francisco must be most artless place in the world, judging by the number of museums which have threatened to leave the city at one point or another. This is a regular process of provocation, and I'm sorry to see...
Commented on Gap founder's amazing art collection may leave San Francisco
It's too bad he can't afford to buy his own real estate....
Commented on Free parking costs a fortune
This makes parking the largest Soviet-style economy in the world. Viva Socialism. There's also a crime cost with free parking, I've learned, as drug dealers love to set up in parked cars....
Commented on Photo of the day: Bill Clinton with Kim-Jong Il
The prisoners at Yodok are no doubt jumping for joy at their imminent liberation....
Commented on Cremation urns that look like the dear departed
Antinous, you may fancy free will, but your mind is in fact my basest thoughts, transported a few hours back in time ....
Commented on Awesome CSS IS AWESOME mug
Nice. Similarly I've been plotting a <sucks> XML</sucks> T-shirt for some time now, but I don't have enough RAM or CPU to parse it....
Commented on Cat burglar falls off three-storey building across from my bedroom window
I'm shocked at this Orwellian invasion of his privacy....
Commented on Prominent Black professor arrested for entering own home while Black
Don't the cops have their name tags and badges visible in the photograph? It seems like both parties are pushing their "narratives" a bit. To tell the truth this seems pretty funny. Inflexible police procedure meets conclusion-jumping academic....
Commented on Paperclips dance to electromagnets on train
I've seen that on BART as well. I guess those are the static winding for the motor?...
Commented on CC-licensed photo-book to accompany my CC-licensed essay on CCTVs
CCTV is about as much of a threat to freedom as shellfish are to Christianity....
Commented on RFID for your Fried Chicken
After a bit more reflection, I decided to make a list of my favorite Korean inventions and/or innovations: 1. Turtle Ships. The Monitor vs. the Merrimack was the first battle between armored ships. Ever wonder what a battle between an...
Commented on Why isn't Home Depot aping Ponoko?
With a decent CNC plywood/sheet goods cutter, Home Depot could replace Ikea....
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SamSam commented on Understanding the psychology of authoritarianism
I can write an experiment that gives me exactly what I want it to...this guy's no different. So do it. Seriously. Give a test to 1000 liberals and 1000 conservatives and make it "prove exactly what [you] want it to." You imply this guy's experiments are just designed prove exactly what he wants, so 1) Pick an experiment which you think is unfairly loaded, and explain why, 2) Come up with an experiment which would prove the opposite. Until you do, http://bit.ly/7JHgj0...
ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive commented on Understanding the psychology of authoritarianism
It really isn't all that hard to defy logic and skew the results of an experiment. I don't know why you'd want to do it (unless you are trying to ram through an agenda like Rush Limbaugh and Michael Moore). There certainly is no point in wasting time doing it as an exercise to prove whether this author has done it or not. It wouldn't prove anything. No one would deny that bias is impossible....
AirPillo commented on Understanding the psychology of authoritarianism
Guys, you might want to read the book before you attempt to rebuff it? I'm seeing a lot of concerns leveled against the book's content in the comments here which are explicitly spoken to and acknowledged in the first 2 chapters alone. You can't refute something respectably if you can't even be arsed to read what you're refuting....
nmcvaugh616 commented on Understanding the psychology of authoritarianism
So where do the RWA's stand on the blinking & sweating scale? Remember that one? One of the nice things about research is the ability to ask such questions and then test the theory against what it would predict. The study you're thinking of is: Oxley et al. Political Attitudes Vary with Physiological Traits. Science (2008) vol. 321 (5896) pp. 1667-1670 Altemeyer notes the effect of family vs. social influences in fostering authoritarianism, and would predict that the RWA and the Oxley findings would be correlated. Be a nice experiment to run. He also cites some genetic research in the...
treacle commented on Understanding the psychology of authoritarianism
Might I suggest a very interesting, and very practical book on 'Brainwashing': THE MANIPULATED MIND by Denise Winn. It examines the origins of 'brainwashing' (korea in the 50's), the psychological dymanics, and critically: How to thwart brainwashing. (Answer? Humor.) Brilliant and possibly overlooked book. A great companion to the one you post above....

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