January 2010
30 posts
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“We silence the cognitive dissonance through self-imposed ignorance.”
– Jonah Lehrer, quoting from his book How We Decide, in Cable News [via James]
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“The surprise came at the conclusion of the event.… Weak human + machine + better...”
– Garry Kasparov, The Chess Master and the Computer [via Idea of the Day]
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“The human brain has a remote root exploit in 70% of the installed base”
– Notes on a talk by Matt Knox, speaking about the Milgram Experiment, in On Weakness [via Aaron Swartz]
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“Was the plant’s management team smarter with thirty-five people on it than...”
– Malcolm Gladwell, The Bakeoff
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“They’ve identified a loophole, a vulnerability in the operating system of...”
– Adam Greenfield, on health care reform opponents, in On systems, and what they do [via Fred Scharmen, via Nat Torkington]
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“The problem is far more social than technological. Teaching your mom to...”
– Bruce Schneier, Fixing Intelligence Failures
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“…So is it any wonder that, as companies get bigger, their productivity per...”
– Bruce Eckel, Wrong Correctness [via The Faster Software Project]
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“…I cherish a good wasting of time as a necessary precondition for creativity,...”
– Kevin Kelly, The 2-Billion-Eyed Intermedia
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“No democracy has survived needing a supermajority.”
– Vice President Joe Biden, VP: Constitution ‘on its head’ [via Political Wire]
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“Customer satisfaction, arguably the most important value that any company needs...”
– Bruce Eckel, Wrong Correctness [via The Faster Software Project]
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“Good design will make a product understandable”
– Dieter Rams, Ten principles to good design
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“If we are almost all potential terrorists, then we have entered a world of such...”
– Dominic Lawson, If we are all under suspicion, then we are all threatened [via BoingBoing]
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“The best features are invisible.”
– Scott Stevenson
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“I’ve seen great talents get laid off from the Washington Post, and they can look...”
– Anil Dash, interviewed by The Morning News
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“As a species we’re hardwired to fear specific stories — terrorists with...”
– Bruce Schneier, Post-Underwear-Bomber Airport Security
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“Big companies should have dedicated process simplifiers, senior people who just...”
– Scott Berkun, Why do big companies suck?
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“Sometimes it’s better not to fix things: either there is no fix, or the...”
– Bruce Schneier, David Brooks on Resilience in the Face of Security Imperfection
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“…there is no way to assure a decent future for the next 100 million Americans...”
– Joel Kotkin, Don’t Give Up On The U.S. [via Idea of the Day]
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“Artificially declaring a decision, such as the end date of a project,...”
– Andy Hunt on the need for closure in section 5.1, Meet Your Cognitive Biases, of Pragmatic Thinking & Learning (p 116)
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As Revenue Plunges, Stadium Boom Adds to Municipal... →
NY Times: “From New Jersey to Ohio to Arizona, the stadiums were sold as a key to redevelopment and as the only way to retain sports franchises. But the deals that were used to persuade taxpayers to finance their construction have in many cases backfired, the result of overly optimistic revenue assumptions and the recession.” [via Streetsblog]
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“#11 Avoid foods you see advertised on television.
[…]
#39 Eat all the junk...”
– Michael Pollan, “Food Rules”: A Completely Different Way To Fix The Health Care Crisis [via Milosz]
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“You have to know where you’re going and one of the things that television in...”
– David Simon, interview with Vice Magazine
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“Aesthetics make a difference, whether it’s in a user interface, the layout...”
– Andy Hunt, Pragmatic Thinking & Learning (p 67)
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Fixing Bluetooth Mouse Jumpiness on a Mac Pro
I have experienced occasional “jumpiness” using two different Bluetooth mice with my Mac Pro (a quad-core from 2007). Having a Magic Mouse go from responsive to slow and sluggish and back to responsive in the course of 10 seconds was very frustrating.
A Macrumors guide points out that quite a few Mac Pros have their Airport and Bluetooth antennas wired incorrectly. In many Mac...
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“The main thing I noticed about the experts I’ve encountered is they are into...”
– Zed Shaw, The Master, The Expert, The Programmer
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“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge…”
– Charles Darwin, cited by Andy Hunt in Pragmatic Thinking & Learning (p 26)