psychology

  • Chinese Web users lose 10,000 domain names in quakes
    Why people hate domain registrars: "Domain name servers were not responsible for lost domain names if holders did not re-register in time, Xinhua quoted a center insider as saying, since the loss was an 'act of God.'"
    filed under: internet, ethics
  • Economist.com: Captain Kirk's revenge
    Fantastic article about aggregating current emotion research. "Most neuroscientists now recognise six basic emotions: anger, disgust, fear, joy, sadness and surprise." (subscription req'd unfortunately)
    filed under: psychology, science
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  • John Battelle's Searchblog: Data Switzerland?
    John Battelle has a great idea about storing data in info-privacy friendly countries. But I'd go a step further and say that big data stores should also store data in an encrypted format, so only someone with a key can make the data useful.
    filed under: privacy, law
  • The Gender Genie
    put in some text, and see if this script can guess the author's gender based on word usage. (I was looking for a Perl module that does this, but no luck.)
    filed under: language, writing, psychology, gender
Oct 20th, 2006, 6:45 pm
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Sep 15th, 2006, 8:45 pm

Step away from the keyboard

What I really need my computer to do is monitor my emotional level and then enable/disable features as appropriate. I'd like to see this dialog box: "I'm sorry, you can't post to your weblog right now because you're at emotion level 6. Please try again later once you have successfully chilled out. Contact your system administrator if you feel you've reached this message in error."

"Warning: You're now at level 7. Breathe."

Or, "I'm sorry, you're much too happy to open Excel. Try back later."
Sep 26th, 2002, 3:28 pm
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