Are facts useless to U.S. voters?

A couple new articles came across my viewing today. The first was by Joe Miller of The Fact Check Wire, who posted a new article titled “Fact-Checking is useless.”
An [WaPo] article last September pointed to cognitive science research showing that debunking myths can have the effect of reinforcing the very myths you’re trying to [...]

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Psychoanalyzing a programmer

Last week, I came across a few articles written over at Lispy.WordPress.com. The first article was titled “Do you know any programmers that exibit these personality traits…?”
I’ve been observing an unusual programmer friend of mine for some time now. He has such a strange combination of potential and incompetence that its hard to tell if [...]

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More egoless programming discussion

“Egoless Programming” is an intriguing concept because it provides a way to understand yourself and fellow programmers. Knowing how someone thinks and why they think that way, can help you understand their decisions and personality. Also, realizing that you might fall into the same traps typical to programmers will help you avoid any possible [...]

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Who Am I?

One of the Podcasts that I listen to is the Alan Watts Podcast. If you haven’t heard of Alan Watts, then you probably have never read much western philosophers of the last few decades. He has written tons of books on religion and philosophy.  Just recently, some of his talks were converted to electronic media [...]

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