I was thinking today about how to teach kids, and people I guess, about how to be suspicious of people who are trying to sell you something. At some point I realized this, perhaps after seeing commercials for toys that made them seem *awesome* and then feeling the buyers remorse after actually owning them. Regardless, […]
I read a really interesting article by man who suggested that conservatives and liberals respond to messages differently. No, I can’t find it, it was months ago and yes, this does seem obvious. His point was that liberals care much more about the *outcome* and conservatives care much more about the process. For a conservative, […]
Would you voluntarily contribute 60 cents per gallon of gas to help maintain roads? How about $2000 a year to support our military? What about $2600 a year so that every child, regardless of means, can get an education and have a chance at the American Dream? How about donating $500 a year to guarantee […]
Recent events in Libya have gotten me thinking… but not about my usual stuff. No, I’m not concerned with international relations (relations, heh heh) or game theory or … well there are lots of interesting things going on in Libya. No, I have been thinking about the no fly zone. You see, so long as […]
I’ve started meditating. Or at least, I am trying to start trying to meditate. I am following the program designed by John Kabat-Zinn in Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness. This book, which is somewhat unfortunately titled, is awesome and I highly recommend it. […]
So in my last post I talked about how I want to create a website that helps people reach a consensus. I ran into a little problem that I would like to talk through. The problem is this: while I believe I have a way to determine when people reach a consensus and when they […]
I have an idea and I want to start working on it… slowly… The basic idea is this: it seems like no one cares about reaching a consensus any more. Rather, the goal is to get 51% of a given population to agree with you and you are done. The problem is that it is […]
So my blog has changed locations again. Same city this time, just different neighborhood. You might notice that the url changed from www.craig.snoeyink.org/blog to www.blog.craig.snoeyink.org… The reason for this is that my website got hacked about 3 weeks ago causing all of my wordpress, gallery2, and mediawiki websites to redirect to a malware website which […]