In case you were worried, bras don't appear to cause breast cancer.

I could've sworn I've blogged more about the Dunning-Kruger Effect, but I guess mostly I posted things to FriendFeed.

…all humans suffer from similar cognitive flaws and biases. We can all be brilliant and stupid at the same time, and apparently have no difficulty compartmentalizing our beliefs in order to minimize cognitive dissonance.

I think it's hilarious that the people who defend Ben Carson also tend to be the same people who don't believe formal education makes you automatically smarter than people without formal education.

It continues to amuse me that people quote "information wants to be free" without giving appropriate context (namely, that "information wants to be expensive", too.)

It was fitting that I caught Alexander Proyas’ “Dark City” on cable the other day. In case you’ve never watched it, it is set in some noir city where it seems like it’s always night, and for some reason there doesn’t seem to be a way out of it. One of the characters comes to realize this and basically goes insane, repeatedly drawing spirals everywhere he goes. (Wow, that’s weird, I just realized that this happens in China Miéville’s book Iron Council as well—one of the characters goes around the city of New Crobuzon drawing spirals everywhere. Totally different meaning, though.)

Beginnings. PS2s. “Requiem for a Dream”