From the monthly archives: September 2005

Quote of the day

By On 29/09/2005 ·

The Danes are somewhat defensive and reluctant towards using the possibilities of technology as we often fear the coming of a “control society”. But at the end of the day, the technology can give us a more secure society.

Author of report based on “recommendations” from government authorities (source)

So the control society [...]

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List of things that are poorly named

By On 26/09/2005 ·

Some things are just poorly-to-exceptionally badly named:

1) Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species had almost incomparably important things to say about a wide range of phenonemena, but it said next to nothing about speciacation (the origin of species, that is)

2) Reeves and Nash’ Media Equation is pretty much the idea that people [...]

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The public interest (UFOs and girls)

By On 25/09/2005 ·

Somehow I think the “most viewed” list of my Flickr photos gives a rather clear, in perhaps not terribly surprising, glimpse of the general taste.

Update: The original link didn’t work unless you were me. So I’ve inserted the most viewed list below.

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Turning Japanese

By On 17/09/2005 ·

Had the pleasure today of visiting the Tokyo Game Show to take part in what was a genuinely chaotically entertaining experience. New consoles where everywhere but apart from that, horse racing seems to be the game theme of tomorrow. Saddle up, gentlemen.
Afterwards I met up with Espen, Espen’s friend, and [...]

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The danger of effect studies

By On 09/09/2005 ·

I wrote an “analysis” for the newspaper Politiken (4 Sep) on the issue of violent games and aggressive behaviour. The immediate reason was recent press releases from the American Psychological Association purporting strong claims based on absurdly low-powered new recearch (an informal 5 page research review presented at the association’s yearly meeting).

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