self-deception

Ninety-four percent of university professors think they are better at their jobs than their colleagues.

Twenty-five percent of college students believe they are in the top 1% in terms of their ability to get along with others.

Seventy percent of college students think they are above average in leadership ability. Only two percent think they are below average.
--Thomas Gilovich How We Know What Isn't So

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Pauline rented a video yesterday. It starred Richard Gere. That might have had something to do with the choice ;-) The title of the film is "Dr T and the Women". Remember that title and make sure you never make the same mistake of renting it. It was abysmal. Quite the worst film I've seen in a long, long time.

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Washtech.com | The Next Generation: Biotechnology May Make Superhero Fantasy a Reality

...You can also find disagreement about whether the biological revolution or the computer revolution first will lead us to becoming trans-humans.

This weekend in Silicon Valley, Kurzweil is scheduled to debate Gregory Stock, author of "Redesigning Humans: Our Inevitable Genetic Future," and director of the UCLA Program on Medicine, Technology and Society. Stock foresees "widespread reworking of human biology via genetic engineering -- neither governments nor religious groups will be able to stop this" in the next few decades, says Christine Petersen, president of the Foresight Institute running the program. "Greg sees computer technology as increasingly intelligent, but by and large not integrated with the human body.

"Kurzweil agrees with Stock that the biogenetic changes he foresees will take place, but believes that we will also see profound integration of our biological systems with nonbiological intelligence," enabling routine integration of machines and the brain by 2030. By 2040, the nonbiological portion will be far more powerful than the biological portion: We will have become cyborgs, Kurzweil argues.

My GLUM ratings has slipped ;-)

I've dropped to hit #6 in the google search for "Duncan". Ah well, never mind. But what can you do in the face of meta tag 'stuffing' as blatant as the following?:

<META Name="keywords" Content="..., Duncan, pickups,
guitars, Electric, Bass, Acoustics, Antiquity, Stratocasters, Fenders,
..., Duncan, pickups, guitars,
Electric, Bass, Acoustics, Antiquity, Stratocasters, Fenders,
..., Duncan, pickups, guitars,
Electric, Bass, Acoustics, Antiquity, Stratocasters, Fenders,
..., Duncan, pickups, guitars,
Electric, Bass, Acoustics, Antiquity, Stratocasters, Fenders,
..., Duncan, pickups, guitars,
Electric, Bass, Acoustics, Antiquity, Stratocasters, Fenders,
..., Duncan, pickups, guitars,
Electric, Bass, Acoustics, Antiquity, Stratocasters, Fenders">

Guess what I replaced with the ...s!

I refuse to resort to such tactics B-}

via Scripting News - XML.com: Google's Gaffe

Google seems to be caught up in the hype of SOAP-based web services. Conversely, Amazon has recently released a program for its partners based upon pure XML, HTTP and URIs. eBay has long had an XML/HTTP/URI-style service.

In this article I demonstrate that Google's choice was technologically poor, compared to that of eBay and Amazon. I will show that a Google API based on XML, HTTP and URIs can be simpler to use, more efficient, and more powerful.

An interesting and thought provoking article. Well worth the read. My personal opinion? SOAP does not necessarily make a clean implementation ;-)

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