Every time I flip open my Nokia it feels like I should say Beam me up Scotty, so its nice to see this neat collection of many other examples. Hat tip to Pasta&Vinegar for this and other links.
You sweat blood for years to get a new idea/concept such as complex adaptive systems established. Then it becomes popular at which point intellectually inadequate opportunists seize on the language and images without understanding or comprehension, to re-brand any old method or tool as some radical new complexity approach. As my grandmother would have said, […]
On a day where the UK seized the assets of Icelandic banks, shares continue to fall, and inflation in Zimbabwe reaches 231,000,000%; the most frequenntly accessed article in the Guardian (the on line edition) is on The naked truth about lap dancing. There was controversy at the recent Conservative Party conference where delegates were given […]
I have always wondered why academics involved in counter-terrorism publish papers describing how (to take one example) they calculate interconnectivity in terrorist networks. Its not too hard to see that someone might study said papers and then adjust behaviour to game the algorithms. Equally if you think of some new means of killing many people, […]
Another example of how we don’t see the whole picture. Similar message here to the basket ball video. Thanks to Willem who was on our Amsterdam course this week for that. Great three days by the way, active participants, more than prepared to challenge if needed, and highly active. The canals, streets and buildings of […]
This appealed to me for reasons too many to explain (maybe guilty memories of throwing axes at dwarves when computer games were real computer games). Hat top to Infocult for the link
An interesting oddity; why is it that spammers are targeting my first attack on social constructivism? A quick analysis shows this entry attracts more adverts for porn sites than any other. Should I read any significance into this?
You know how it is, you go into the Dentist on Wednesday morning and in consequence take delivery of the German Invasion Plans for the British Isles 1940 on the Friday. Just to make it clear, my dentist is not a secret Nazi although she does have that universal ability of the profession to ask […]
I frequently rail against the over structured, over measured, over managed approaches to dealing with people and organisations. Most recently measurement some time ago Sick Stigma with many a side swipe in between. However there is another side to this, where people go so far to the other extreme that they make even Sick Stigma […]
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