Debunking Handbook
december 2011
From Skeptical Science's John Cook.
howto
science
handbook
climate-science
dissemination
december 2011
Hook and Eye: The degree is the job: a modest proposal for the PhD
november 2011
Treat your PhD like a job: maybe it's a low paying job, but that's okay, because you really enjoy it.
academia
phd
advice
november 2011
Ganó la democracia | Letras Libres
november 2011
Turrent opina sobre el veredicto de Letras Libres vs La Jornada
journalism
essay
mexico
november 2011
Phone Story - Android/iPhone game by Molleindustria
november 2011
Covering Coltan mining, suicides, planned obsolescence, and e-waste.
educational-games
november 2011
Cell Phones, Cancer, and Children
november 2011
The change from “no conclusive evidence” to “possibly carcinogenic” was not new research (11), and it has understandably led to widespread public as well as media concern and confusion (12). The footnote accompanying the IARC press release (10) is often missed—that a “possibly carcinogenic to humans” (2B) classification by IARC is based on “limited evidence of carcinogenicity” and that “chance, bias, or confounding could not be ruled out with reasonable confidence” for the few positive associations reported in the literature.
health
cancer
wifi
smart-meters
november 2011
ScienceDirect - The Lancet Oncology : Carcinogenicity of radiofrequency electromagnetic fields
november 2011
The Working Group concluded that there is “limited evidence in humans” for the carcinogenicity of RF-EMF, based on positive associations between glioma and acoustic neuroma and exposure to RF-EMF from wireless phones. A few members of the Working Group considered the current evidence in humans “inadequate”.
health
smart-meters
cancer
wifi
november 2011
Groupware Bad - Jamie Zawinski
november 2011
"If you want to do something that's going to change the world, build software that people want to use instead of software that managers want to buy."
collaboration
programming
software
software-development
november 2011
Campbell's law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
november 2011
"The more any quantitative social indicator is used for social decision-making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to distort and corrupt the social processes it is intended to monitor."
metrics
november 2011
Goodhart's law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
november 2011
Goodhart's law, although it can be expressed in many ways, states that once a social or economic indicator or other surrogate measure is made a target for the purpose of conducting social or economic policy, then it will lose the information content that would qualify it to play that role.
economics
metrics
november 2011
Embedded in Academia : Perverse Incentives in Academia
november 2011
Researchers rewarded for increased number of publications to improve research productivity -> Avalanche of crappy, incremental papers.
academia
metrics
november 2011
5 Personality Flaws Skyrim Forces You To Deal With | Cracked.com
november 2011
"I'll harvest every fucking cabbage in this field before I so much as glance at the dragon's nest, and you can't stop me."
skyrim
videogames
role-playing-games
november 2011
ExtendNY - New York City Extended
november 2011
"The Manhattan Grid extended to every point on Earth."
map
new-york
november 2011
Frank Miller sure is pissed off about Occupy Wall Street | Books | Newswire | The A.V. Club
november 2011
"And yet, while Miller puts himself out there, on the wall, every single day to defend our freedoms by making hyper-violent wish-fulfillment cartoons, there’s a whole generation of people who are wasting their time on meaningless, masturbatory exercises."
fun
occupy-wall-st
november 2011
George Monbiot – The Self-Attribution Fallacy
november 2011
They're born next to the finish line and they claim they're fantastic runners.
essay
equality
economics
november 2011
Going to work sick is bad for business - The Globe and Mail
november 2011
Staying at home sick instead of infecting everyone else
health
november 2011
Lorem Ipsum - All the facts - Lipsum generator
november 2011
Random text generator for placeholders.
writing
november 2011
why occupy toronto? « scatterplot
october 2011
Inequality in Canada
inequality
occupy-wall-st
activism
sociology
october 2011
InfoQ: Why did MDE Miss the Boat?
october 2011
Analysis on the failure of adoption of MDE
software-development
mde
essay
october 2011
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
october 2011
"So you're telling me Adam and Eve were gay twins?! We're all descended from two brothers doing it? That's a sick story, Father!"
webcomic
religion
october 2011
OWS's Beef: Wall Street Isn't Winning It's Cheating | Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone
october 2011
"People aren't jealous and they don’t want privileges. They just want a level playing field, and they want Wall Street to give up its cheat codes"
occupy-wall-st
activism
essay
economics
october 2011
George Monbiot – Sucking Out Our Brains Through Our Eyes
october 2011
Monbiot on marketing and advertising
advertising
marketing
essay
october 2011
How to Write Better Code - Rebecca J. Rosen - Technology - The Atlantic
october 2011
The Atlantic's Rebecca Rosen's take on Greg and my article for American Scientist
software-development
article
october 2011
Empirical Software Engineering » American Scientist
october 2011
Our article in American Scientist
software-development
article
october 2011
Chris Mooney | Why Did Climate Progress Stall? It's Called Conservative Ideological Activation
october 2011
A reaction to Rosenthal's NYT piece, in which she ignored the failures of the media, and ClimateGate, as explanations for the lack of action in the US regarding climate change.
activism
journalism
essay
climate-change
october 2011
Almost Perfect by W. E. Pete Peterson The Rise and Fall of WordPerfect Corporation
october 2011
Electronic access to Peterson's book on Wordperfect.
book
software-development
october 2011
The Private and Social Costs of Patent Trolls by James Bessen, Michael Meurer, Jennifer Ford :: SSRN
october 2011
Abstract for study on patent trolls
academia
patents
october 2011
Earthscraper in Mexico City - eVolo | Architecture Magazine
october 2011
Pirámide invertida propuesta en el Zócalo
mexico
architecture
october 2011
Does Slow Growth Equal Slow Death? | How Hard Could It Be? by Joel Spolsky | Inc.com
october 2011
Joel Spolsky thinks that if his company doesn't grow faster than 50% a year, he'll go out of business.
size
software-development
entrepreneurship
economics
october 2011
Short Words to Explain Relativity
october 2011
Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity
In Words of Four Letters or Less
science
In Words of Four Letters or Less
october 2011
Siri says some weird things | This is my next...
october 2011
Screenshots of answers from iPhone 4S Siri
funny
october 2011
Rip Rowan - Google+ - Stevey's Google Platforms Rant I was at Amazon for about…
october 2011
A rambling rant of Steve Yegge's on Google's failure to get platform development right.
software-development
rant
october 2011
Rethrick Construction
october 2011
A retrospective on what went wrong with Google Wave development.
agile
software-development
team-size
experience-report
october 2011
Moneyball for software engineering - O'Reilly Radar
october 2011
A misguided proposal to use Sabermetrics in software development teams.
software-development
metrics
october 2011
Falser Words Were Never Spoken - NYTimes.com
october 2011
"Here, Gandhi is telling us that personal and social transformation go hand in hand, but there is no suggestion in his words that personal transformation is enough. In fact, for Gandhi, the struggle to bring about a better world involved not only stringent self-denial and rigorous adherence to the philosophy of nonviolence; it also involved a steady awareness that one person, alone, can’t change anything, an awareness that unjust authority can be overturned only by great numbers of people working together with discipline and persistence."
quotes
op-ed
october 2011
Panic of the Plutocrats - NYTimes.com
october 2011
Paul Krugman: "Anyone who points out the obvious, no matter how calmly and moderately, must be demonized and driven from the stage. In fact, the more reasonable and moderate a critic sounds, the more urgently he or she must be demonized, hence the frantic sliming of Elizabeth Warren."
op-ed
economics
occupy-wall-st
october 2011
REPORT: 30 Years of the Farming Systems Trial | Rodale Institute
october 2011
Organic yields match conventional yields.
Organic outperforms conventional in years of drought.
Organic farming systems build rather than deplete soil organic matter, making it a more sustainable system.
Organic farming uses 45% less energy and is more efficient.
Conventional systems produce 40% more greenhouse gases.
Organic farming systems are more profitable than conventional.
agriculture
organic-farming
economics
sustainability
Organic outperforms conventional in years of drought.
Organic farming systems build rather than deplete soil organic matter, making it a more sustainable system.
Organic farming uses 45% less energy and is more efficient.
Conventional systems produce 40% more greenhouse gases.
Organic farming systems are more profitable than conventional.
october 2011
Farmers Strain to Hire American Workers in Place of Migrant Labor - NYTimes.com
october 2011
Jobless Americans don't want to do the farm labor that illegal Mexican immigrants usually do because it's too hard.
immigration
united-states
agriculture
economics
october 2011
Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1% | Society | Vanity Fair
october 2011
Joseph Stiglitz on the perverted system of government in the United States.
economics
inequality
occupy-wall-st
social-justice
october 2011
Correcting the Abysmal New York Times Coverage of Occupy Wall Street | Truthout
october 2011
A good response to the awful Bellafante report on Occupy Wall St.
occupy-wall-st
activism
journalism
october 2011
Going Green but Getting Nowhere - NYTimes.com
september 2011
"YOU reduce, reuse and recycle. You turn down plastic and paper. You avoid out-of-season grapes. You do all the right things. Good. Just know that it won’t save the tuna, protect the rain forest or stop global warming. The changes necessary are so large and profound that they are beyond the reach of individual action."
environment
environmentalism
activism
economics
global-warming
op-ed
september 2011
Piglia y Bolaño mano a mano | Letras Libres
september 2011
Piglia quiere escribir Arlt y le sale Borges; Bolaño quiere escribir Borges y le sale Arlt.
literature
bolano
september 2011
The Non-Adventures of Wonderella » Archive » Please GRAMMAR Don’t Hurt ‘Em
september 2011
The grammatical errors of Lord Killroy
comic
grammar
september 2011
A Quick Buck by Copy and Paste | Gamification Research Network
september 2011
Gamification book critique
games
review
book
september 2011
Only In It For The Gold: Democracy at Work
september 2011
"We want dirtier air and water so CEOs can make more money!"
humour
comic
september 2011
Diamond planets, climate change and the scientific method
september 2011
Astronomer that discover a diamond planet wonders what would have happened to him as a climate scientist
science
climate
climate-science
september 2011
George Monbiot – Think of a Tank
september 2011
Monbiot's investigation of think tank funding.
activism
politics
september 2011
Energías renovables aumentan sólo 0.5% - El Universal - Finanzas
september 2011
From 2007 to 2011, little change in fossil fuels use in energy generation in Mexico (73.7% - 73.5%).
mexico
energy
environment
september 2011
George Monbiot – The Lairds of Learning
september 2011
Monbiot against academic publishers
academia
publishing
science
september 2011
Texas drought and wildfires - The Big Picture - Boston.com
september 2011
Photos from the Texas drought
photos
texas
september 2011
Welcome | SEED: Software Engineering Evidence Database
september 2011
Collection of software engineering empirical papers, by category
software-engineering
research
database
september 2011
Strawberry Plants
september 2011
Lots of resources on growing strawberries
gardening
strawberries
how-to
september 2011
Amazon’s $23,698,655.93 book about flies
september 2011
A book for 23 million dollars. Algorithmic pricing.
books
algorithms
funny
september 2011
Bug 330884 – When different users on one system choose to save or not save passwords for sites, any other user can see sites they not only saved passwords for but can also see what other users have been saving/never saving passwords for.
september 2011
A bug report that reads like a McSweeney's article
funny
privacy
bug-report
september 2011
Top NASA climate scientist arrested at White House | The Raw Story
august 2011
James Hansen arrested during the Keystone XL pipeline protests.
activism
non-violence
august 2011
LittleSis - Profiling the powers that be
august 2011
Links between organizations and people. "An unvoluntary facebook" for those in power.
activism
government
politics
august 2011
what happened to resource dependence theory? « orgtheory.net
august 2011
An analysis of organizational theories' permanence over time
sociology
organizational-science
theory
august 2011
2010
2011
academia
action-research
activism
adaptation
adoption
advertising
advice
agile
agriculture
algorithms
altruism
analysis
anthology
Aranda
architecture
aristocracy
art
article
ash
atheism
awareness
bandwidth
bbs
bc
behaviour
best-of
bias
bill-mckibben
boardgame
bolano
book
books
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bug-report
burnout
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china
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forum
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games
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gini
global-warming
go
government
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grammar
graphics
green
green-politics
guide
handbook
happiness
health
high-school
hipsterism
hoax
how-to
howto
html
html5
human-factors
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icse
image
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industrialized
inequality
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islam
jobs
jokes
Jorge
journal
journalism
journals
language
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legacy
lessons
life-expectancy
lifecycles
lifestyle
link
linux
literature
local-food
macbook
magazine
manifesto
manual
map
marketing
mde
media
meditation
mental-models
metaphysics
metrics
mexican
mexico
military
mining
misconceptions
monbiot
montessori
movers
museum
music
musical
nature
new-york
non-violence
nuclear-energy
nutrition
nyt
oblique-strategies
occupy-wall-st
odds
oil
on-demands
ontology
op-ed
open-government
open-science
open-source
organic-farming
organizational-science
pacifism
parenthood
patents
pdf
peak-oil
peer-review
phd
philosophy
photos
planet
politics
ponzi
postmortem
poverty
powershift
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programming
protest
protocol
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public-transit
publishing
quotes
rant
rare-earths
reference
reliability
religion
report
requirements
research
resources
review
reviews
riot
role-playing-games
roles
santa
satire
science
scientific-software
secret-life-of-bugs
seeds
sgf
sharing
siegen
simulation
size
skyrim
smart-meters
soccer
social-justice
socialism
sociology
software
software-development
software-engineering
soulgem
sources
spacing
speech
speed
speed-test
sports
statistics
stereotype
strawberries
structure
subsidies
summary
superstar
survey
sustainability
systems-thinking
tar-sands
tea-party
teaching
team-size
technical-debt
technophilia
temperature
texas
texshop
theory
thesis
to-watch
toronto
tourism
tutorials
typography
u-of-t
united-states
university
university-of-toronto
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username-generator
utility
values
vegetables
version-control
victoria
video
videogames
videos
visualization
webcomic
wifi
workshop
world-war-ii
writing
zelda
zucchini