Mmmmm... Crunchy!

Why the Human Brain Is a Poor Judge of Risk

crunch — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 07:14:44 +0000

Yesterday Morning, I presented a 7 minute speach to my local Toastmasters Club on "Risky Business - Understanding Human Perceptions of Risk", and now I see this: Why the Human Brain Is a Poor Judge of Risk

I will post my speach notes soon….

With thanks to Bruce Schneier

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crunch — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:50:49 +0000

Kovco jury fails to reach verdict - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) Annotated

tags: Politics Army Iraq

The jury at the inquest into the death of Private Jake Kovco in Iraq two years ago will continue its deliberations tomorrow after failing to return a verdict today.

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I wish I could be more surprised about this, but I have always thought that there would be insufficient evidence to make any conclusions from this case.

It was, unfortunately, (and will ever be), little more than a coronial waste of money.

Pity though. The real causes are institutional, and such that the defence forses are not even aware that they are actually problems. Sad.

Why won’t this appliance boot!?!?

crunch — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 02:53:01 +0000

A coleague of mine as been having some troubles getting one of our demo appliances to boot…

Things were getting quite tense, as a major deal is totally dependant on the trial running seamlessly starting from Monday next week…

After 15 minutes, and the system had STILL not completed a boot (3rd time round), said coleague went back to the box to find a console cable…

As he is looking through the box, he sees something interesting and says:

“Oh, that’ll be it then!”

As he pulls the boot-HDD from the transport packaging.

ROFL - I literally Rolled On the Floor Laughing

Where the Wild Things Are meets Cthulhu

crunch — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 14:04:05 +0000

Where the Wild Things Are meets Cthulhu - Boing Boing

BoingBoing has some interesting stuff - today was a cross between Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are (or see wikipedia) and the Cthulhu mythos.

Link

(via Neatorama)

credit: Toren Atkinson (amazon) “Where the Great Old Ones Are” (2003)

Degrading media designation T-Shots for SecondLife

crunch — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 08:54:33 +0000

Thanks to Stilgherrian for posting this about “degrading media designations” for the germination of an idea.Over the next few days, I will be making up a series of “Degrading media designation T-Shirts” for SecondLife.

Each one will have the appropriate designation on the front, and the name of the so-degraded author/pundit/commentator on the back.

The current list of Designations is:

“overrated misanthropic pot monster” - John Birmingham
“consonant laden über-geek” - Stilgherrian

More will follow as I find them…

One of the lesser joys of SecondLife

crunch — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 16:46:47 +0000

This is one of the joys of SL - sitting in a calm spot, eating bandwidth by the bucketful while chatting to your friends.

Here in Chatrez, the idylic life is often enjoyed by those wishing to just relax for a while….

Yet another SecondLife ate my FirstLife posting

crunch — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 16:46:36 +0000

Well, I thought I would be better at it than this….

But, yes, SecondLife has eaten my brain.

I play CaptainCrunch Hax in the great brain drain of our time, and I am addicted. Mostly to this game-in-a-game called Tiny Empires, but also to the 2/3rds useful, somewhat anemic scripting language called LSL (Linden Scripting Language).

And then things get EVEN more interesting….