by Tom | Nov 28, 2009 | Reading, Science
Two things we should teach everyone:Â the nocebo effect is a very strong version of priming. How is it that people can get symptoms from a sugar pill? Because their brain is doing some clever / weird stuff. How is it that telling people they are wearing knock-off...
by Tom | Nov 27, 2009 | Reading
Some great Daily Mashes England to uninvent cricket. Climate emails change climate change. “This is the smoking iceberg that fires a polar bear of truth between the eyes of hysteria and communism”. Police creating army of super villains. Drinkers abandon...
by Tom | Nov 27, 2009 | IT
I have a manually triggered AutoHotKey script that gradually lowers the volume of my laptop when (e.g.) ads are on in Spotify. Sadly, to get it working in Windows 7, it has to run as administrator, and thus requires a UAC prompt, which rather defeats the purpose....
by Tom | Nov 26, 2009 | Personal, Science
Turkey electrocution, according to Benjamin Franklin, is a way of creating the perfect Thanksgiving turkey. Not one for the faint of heart, and probably not for Ali Blah Blah. Happy Thanksgiving to all our American and ex-pat chums.
by Tom | Nov 26, 2009 | Business, Personal
What kind of freelancer are you? I’m not sure I fit into any category, so maybe I’m not a freelancer?
