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- London mapped in World of Warcraft style
- Anger and the science of decision-making
- Photos: Comic-Con Toys, Art & Tchotchkes
- Postcard announcing bOING bOING #2
- PsiWheel Under a Glass Container video
- Like Knight Rider, But That's No Car
- India plans reform school for monkeys
- Miles Davis Quintet skateboards
| London mapped in World of Warcraft style Posted: 26 Jul 2009 12:58 AM PDT  Jeffrey sez, "Take a look at this map of London with a Warcraft II theme; I used GSS/Geographic Stylesheets and Cartagen to create a custom map style that displays the entire world as if it were a Warcraft II level. This was done to showcase the abilities of the dynamic mapping framework Cartagen, which is open-source and runs in HTML5's Canvas element. No Java or Flash!" Warcraft map stylesheet for London (Thanks, Jeffrey!) |
| Anger and the science of decision-making Posted: 26 Jul 2009 12:56 AM PDT I just listened to the NPR Science Friday podcast on "The Science of Decision-Making" with Jennifer S. Lerner from the Harvard Decision Science Laboratory as well as others, discussing the way that behavioral- and neuro-economics are changing the orthodox views of rationality in the marketplace. Lerner mentioned a paper, "Portrait of The Angry Decision Maker: How Appraisal Tendencies Shape Anger's Influence on Cognition" that I had to go and look up -- and I'm glad I did. It's a fascinating look at the role of irrationality on decision-making, and a damning rebuttal of the idea of rationality in the marketplace. This paper reviews the impact of anger on judgment and decision making. Section I proposes that anger merits special attention in the study of judgment and decision mak- ing because the effects of anger often diverge from those of other negative emotions. Section II presents an Appraisal-Tendency Framework for predicting and organizing such effects. Section III reviews empirical evidence for the uniqueness of anger's rela- tions to judgment and decision making. Section IV connects the Appraisal-Tendency Framework to associated mechanisms and theories. Drawing on the evidence, Section V presents the question of whether anger should be considered a positive emotion. It also proposes the hypothesis that anger will be experienced as relatively unpleasant and unrewarding when reflecting back on the source of one's anger but experienced as rela- tively pleasant and rewarding when looking forward. Section VI synthesizes the evi- dence into a new portrait of the angry decision maker.Portrait of The Angry Decision Maker: How Appraisal Tendencies Shape Anger's Influence on Cognition (HTML) Previously:
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| Photos: Comic-Con Toys, Art & Tchotchkes Posted: 25 Jul 2009 08:54 PM PDT  So, two Jokers walk into a Comic-Con...More pics of toys and misc. Comic-Con collectibles over at BBG. Previously:
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| Postcard announcing bOING bOING #2 Posted: 25 Jul 2009 04:28 PM PDT  This postcard advertising bOING bOING #2 was sent out in 1989 to the 50 or so people who ordered a copy of bOING bOING #1 from the pages of Factsheet Five. I found it today in a box of junk I was cleaning out. (If anyone still has one of these cards and sends me a scan of what's on the front, I'll send them a Boing Boing T-shirt.) |
| PsiWheel Under a Glass Container video Posted: 25 Jul 2009 09:40 AM PDT  This video is a couple of years old, but I just read about it on Forgetomori last night. It shows a folded piece of paper, balanced on an upright toothpick, under a glass bowl. The guy in the video shows how he can make the paper spin with his "psychic powers." Before he starts making it spin though, he first blows a hair dryer around the bowl to show that the apparatus inside can't be affected by moving air, and then he moves a powerful magnet all around the bowl to show that there's no magnetism involved. The he sits down in a meditative pose and makes the paper spin in one direction, and then another. You can read the video creator's explanation here. Before you read it though, try to think how he might have accomplished this. |
| Like Knight Rider, But That's No Car Posted: 25 Jul 2009 05:08 PM PDT Jason Torchinsky is a guest blogger on Boing Boing. Jason has a book out now, Ad Nauseam: A Survivor's Guide to American Consumer Culture. He lives in Los Angeles, where he is a tinkerer and artist and writes for the Onion News Network. He lives with a common-law wife, five animals, too many old cars, and a shed full of crap. I was looking at this old video I made with my old comedy group, the Van Gogh-Goghs and thought, "you know who might get a kick out of this? The internet". So I hope you enjoy. Also, it's sorta NSFW, so I'm posting it on Saturday, the Day of No Rules. Thanks!   |
| India plans reform school for monkeys Posted: 25 Jul 2009 08:15 AM PDT Carrie McLaren is a guest blogger at Boing Boing and coauthor of Ad Nauseam: A Survivor's Guide to American Consumer Culture. She lives in Brooklyn, the former home of her now defunct Stay Free! magazine.  Wild monkeys in India have grown so out of control that the state government is planning to build a school for rogue monkeys.
The problem of rogue monkeys is particularly severe in towns close to India's north-western border with Pakistan. Officials accuse them of a variety of bad behaviour from terrorising children, snatching food from people and destroying property... The proposed new monkey school will take in the "worst offenders" and put them through a crash course in good manners.Indian school for rogue monkeys (via Monkeywire) (Photo: Peter Garnham)   |
| Miles Davis Quintet skateboards Posted: 25 Jul 2009 07:54 AM PDT  Over at Dangerous Minds, Tara McGinley posted this fantastic skateboard series featuring the Miles Davis Quintet, as illustrated by Ian Johnson. "Miles Davis Quintet Skateboards"   |
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