As a designer, I'm all over this. A beautiful depiction of the 2012 ..."debate". Beautiful! It's from www.informationisbeautiful.net. Such a geekily cool website.
I promise I'll write about something other than conspiracy theories soon. It's just been my theme for the month.
Why People Believe Weird Things book review. Looks like a good read for critical thinkers out there.
Lecture by the author MICHAEL SHERMER. A humourous lecture from the man from Skeptic magazine himself.
Of course there is another side, which is always good to listen to so that you can reach your own conclusions.
I'm starting to think I truely am a skeptic. I do however try to to keep an open mind. Just because a phenomenon can't be explained by science, doesn't mean that weird things don't happen. They are just not conclusively explained. Even if they were, peoplle will still make their own conclusions.
Take the phenomenon of ghosts for instance. Maybe there are strange events out there and people do actually see apparitions. Maybe they are just atmospheric events, or hallucinations? Maybe they really are the souls of the dead walking amongst the living?
I guess we don't know the answer to the above conclusively, and that is why I can't ever accept the fact that people truely believe it is this, or that, when we really don't bloody know.
This is another reason why I have been agnostic for most of my life. I can't just take the meaning of life and everything upon faith just because it is in the Tora, the Qur'an, the Bible, or spoken by Siddharta, Hubbard. There are Jews that don't worship Jesus, and Jews for Jesus, Christians that worship a Pope, Christians that don't.... the list goes on.
I'm not saying any of the above are wrong, I'm too ignorant to know that. My issue is that they all say they are right. They can't all be right? What's an agnostic to do?
At least with science, I have the solidity of knowing what we know, and knowing that we probably know a hell of a lot less about the universe than we think (obviously). I feel more comfortable with this reality, which probably makes me an Athiest, or a Humanist. Despite the labels, it is who I am.
Either way, it makes for good movie watching. I'm a horror, sci-fi junkie.
Jabob Neilson:
Yes he has awesome usability ideas. Yes he is a usability expert. Yes he can optimize your site. Still, as a User Experience designer I can easily say that if I showed a client THIS, they would laugh me out of the office. How? Why? I have bitched about this before, like in the early naughties, and the site is still the same. It's still the fracking same!
H1H1 Information:
The Skeptics Guide to the Universe have done a round table podcast discussing the pandemic from a scientific perspective. They are mostly doctors, so it's worth a listen to hear things from a physician's perspective. This is not objective, it is a pro vaccine stance. I suggest you also read the other side of the argument and make your mind up.
Made you look?
The CBC reports this:
A Quebec man in his 80s died after being vaccinated against swine flu, officials said Tuesday.
They said it was too soon to determine whether the vaccine played a role in the death of the man, who had underlying health issues.
Click "Travel the world of Hermès" begin the cryptic logic puzzle that is the Hermes website .
My favourite part is the needless intro, and an orange question mark at the left. What does clicking the orange question mark do you ask? It gives you instructions on how to navigate the site. Any navigation that needs an instruction manual is,.. well,... you get the picture.
There appears to be a horse at the top right. Oh it's the logo. What does it do? It opens the page you were just on before.
There is code that forces the site to take up my entire screen? Please don't do that. Thanks also for disabling all my browser's functions. Why?
The UX on this site is somewhat like being trapped the movie The Cell, with the "back to reality" button disabled.
The word in the image below says it all really:
Since installing Snow Leopard, copying things to and from my iDisk has been tooth grinding to say the least.
Almost every time I copy something to the iDisk, it stops and I get some cryptic -50 error. Copying something from, takes either 20 billion hours, just times out, freezes the finder, or it just says..… no.
Why do we pay for this again? The only reason I actually fork out money for the MobileMe is the push syncing, which for the most part works beautifully. But seriously, if there was a way to dump MobileMe for something that fully works as cloud storage, I would happily switch.A gmail, Dropbox solution might be the key. Dropbox is awesome,… has never failed me,.. and is free! Kudos Dropbox.
As it stands right now, I started uploading some important files at home that I needed to send from work. They are not there,… I need them. Where are they apple?
You fail.
