Category: links

• wray-mccann.com – kick-ass photography
• Trickle down economics – ‘despite the invention of the internet, the peace dividend from the end of the Cold War, the end of the oil crisis of the 1970s and the greatest bull market in history, the difference between being in the poorest 20% in 1978 and in 2001 was that …you could buy the consumption bundle of the poorest quintile from 1978, plus a caffe latte every weekday’
• ‘The Hippocampus as a Cognitive Map’ by John O’Keefe and Lynn Nadel a classic book, on-line. This is what should happen to all books!
• ‘lots of [the] challenge in AI is in speaking naturally, and on the internet most people speak like idiots, so you can sort of cheat around a lot of things’
• World Drinking Trends 2004: Alcohol consumption
• The New Economics of unconscious collective action
• I’m not guilty – but my brain is
• Dungeons and Dragons is 30 years old
• Phil Gyford’s notes about Matt’s talk at Euro Foo about Mind/Brain hacks
• ‘Obey; conform; consume’: A montaged movie of advertising images, photographed by Tom Stafford and badly edited by yours truly [Ewan Cameron at cognitivemiser.co.uk]

• Guy Debord’s ‘Society of the Spectacle’
• The IDchip experiment (more funny if you’re familiar with Revelation 13:16-18)
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  Men beat women at identifying noises

• A Day in the life of a grasshopper neuron (animated gif)
• 101 Things you can do with Mozilla which you can’t do with Internet Explorer
• Skip Art in Liverpool
• A Rape In Cyberspace – ‘the logic of the incantation is rapidly permeating the fabric of our lives’
• Caffeine on brain makes me wonder what kind of man Caesar was; a double-espresso-in-the-morning guy, I suspect. Marc Antony was undoubtedly one of those effete flavored-mochaccino people’
• I have discovered that what I really want is just a strong cup of coffee
• Networks are great. Yes, but why can’t they say why? (via paulmiller.org)
• ‘Network Logic’ from Demos
• Self-organisation and political movements essay by Steve Johnson – ‘They’re great at conjuring up crowds. But they’re lousy at coping’ (via crookedtimber)
  

• Everything MPs say in the House of Commons – read and attach comments
• paleofood.com – Eat like stone-age man, ‘Recipes are: grain-free, bean-free, potato-free, dairy-free, and sugar-free. Ingredients used: meat, fish, fruit, vegetables, nuts, and berries’
• Elizabeth Spelke, Harvard Laboratory for Developmental Studies
• The Bush Administration; The timing of drops in approval Ratings, Terror Alerts and Bad News
• Navigable Atlas of the Human Brain – totally cool
• All in the Mind, weekly radio program exploring the mind, brain and human behaviour. Broadcast on ABC Radio National and the web (with transcripts).
• mind-brain.com
• Top 100 April Fool’s Day Hoaxes of All Time
• The Physiology of the Senses – Transformations for Perception and Action (animated textbook)
• Fractal story design via Matt
• truthaboutrave.com – ‘RAVE parties are an occult spiritual movement…Under the guise of Peace and Love, the devil is using music and drugs to deceive masses of young people’ You have been warned

• Everything MPs say in the House of Commons – read and attach comments
• Peterme.com on making stuff easy to use
• Cosma Shalizi’s notebooks
• alittlepoison.com
• Small bit of BBS commentary by Dennet on the multiple drafts theory of consciousness
• TMS induced savantism (would be nice but i’ll wait till they’ve published somewhere credible)
• Bad Thoughts by Jamie Whyte – readers’ comments and the author’s replies
• Cooperation, Secret Handshakes, and Imitation in the Prisoners’ Dilemma
• Literature, Cognition & the Brain
• Brains, Minds, and Texts, A Review of Mark Turner’s ‘The Literary Mind’ – a cognitivist literary theory? ‘Scholars of the future age may well find amusement in the pretensions of one English professor after another to solve the riddles of human agency, subject formation, language acquisition, and consciousness, with little or no awareness of the spectacular developments in psychology, linguistics, philosophy of mind, and neuroscience that form the central story of Anglo-American intellectual life from the 1950s to the present’
• Brain Quotes, from ‘Neuroscience for Kids’
• ‘Life, the universe…and nothing’- Bryan Appleyard on Francis Crick and the ‘secret of life’

• Where the money went – the real wage in the US has dropped for 30 years (via helmintholog)
• The number of Americans ‘controlled by the criminal justice system’ rose again this year. Nearly 6.9 million Americans (3.2% of adults) are incarcerated, paroled, or on probation. [NYT permalink, via Majikthise]
• Organising space and time for mass participative interaction (at the London ESF)
• Guardian Weekend article from July 2003 on supermarket loyalty cards
• Get Your War On
• Pigeons – how the hell do they do it?
• Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Howl’
• Richard D North – ‘Why Consumer Culture Is Good’
• activistcash.com – who funds the activists? Biased but fascinating.
• Dealing with Trackback spams
• The Milgram Obedience Song (with samples from recordings of Stanley Milgrams original experiments on obedience to authority)

• Review of Niall Ferguson’s Collosus – america an ’empire in denial’
• Self-Organisation in Biological Systems (book and demos)
• Special issue of Trends in Neurosciences – Current Thinking in basal ganglia research
• Human Evolution: The Fossil Evidence in 3D
• People Who Believe Things – Photodocumentary by Andy Brown
• Ghostbikes
• Karma Banque – Make money when the shares of socially-irresponsible companies fall in value
• The Visual Thesaurus
• Excerpts and info from ‘Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience’ By Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
• Television Addiction Is No Mere Metaphor By Robert Kubey and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
• “CAT SCAN” by Greg Tuft

• Illusions of apparent motion – the only word to describe these is ‘trippy’
• Gallery of Neurons
• NeuroWiki – Wikipedia for computational neuroscientists.
• Le Poulet Noir
• If I was a moral philosophy lecturer I’d do this experiment on my class via Crookedtimber
• Sizes.com – The Online Quantinary
• Clay Shirky: Power Laws, Weblogs, and Inequality– ‘Diversity plus freedom of choice creates inequality’
• Guardian Profile of Zygmunt Bauman
• Guardian review of Identity by Zygmunt Bauman ‘trust is homeless’
• Guardian article by Zygmunt Bauman on inequality, morality and globalisation
• Boxing advice
• mindreadings.com – control theory and psychology
• helmintholog on a theory of relgion – ‘the overdetection of agency

• Global Rich List – you’re on it
• To PhD or not to PhD? at plasticbag.org.
• “She’s only Two Cats Mad on the Spinster Eccentricity Index”
• Steveberlinjohnson.com on Fahrenheit 9/11
• Corante.com/loom on Machiavellian Monkeys, social intelligence and cortex size
• Online lectures from the Obidos Advanced Course in Computational Neuroscience 2003
• Notes on all (DSM-IV) psychiatric disorders from psychnet-uk.com
• neurodiversity.com – honoring the variety of human wiring
• Citation space map of the most cited papers on autism
• Psychcentral blog (mostly mental health)
• Butler’s Fork – either Blair lied or he was criminally reckless in invading Iraq
• The Dark Side of Numbers: The Role of Population Data Systems in Human Rights Abuses via apophenia

• Eric Chudler’s neuroscience links
• The Encyclopedia of Psychology at psychology.org
• Introduction to the different paradigms of personality research
• Introduction to neurophysiology – using flash
• The University of Alberta’s Dictionary of Cognitive Science
• Dr Mezner’s guide to bad psychology
• Ultimate web reference for the visual system
• An Introduction to Neural Networks by Kevin Gurney
• psychontology
• Beyond Vegetarianism – Reports from veterans of vegetarian and raw-food diets, veganism, fruitarianism, and instinctive eating, plus new science from paleolithic diet research and clinical nutrition.
• Over at Interconnected, a fugue on vision, metabolism, information, life and ontology. And some other things
• brainmuseum.org images and information from one of the world’s largest collection of well-preserved, sectioned and stained brains of mammals…over 100 different species of mammals (including humans) representing 17 mammalian orders.
• The magazine of Christian unrest
• 10 classics from Cognitive Science
• The religious views of Americans Scary stuff

• Applet for calculating and visualising z-scores and probabilities on the normal distribution
• This guy got 11,000 rejection slips before he eventually got published. Woah.
• The Garden of Forking Paths
• A sheffield subvertiser’s story
• The Skeptic’s Dictionary on Neuro-Linguistic Programming
• Jim McCrone has a website!
• Real life invisibility cloaks – wow!
• Macho nonsense #94573: Does this guy know how silly he looks? (Actually the articles are pretty good).
• Because serendipity is too important to be left to chance via Matt
• The ten most difficult words to translate via Matt
• The effect of blogging on the media (requires registration, sorry)
• Brixton Cycles– great bike shop in brixton
• principles of Extreme programming
• James Atherton’s web notes on learning theory

• I cannot quite understand how an economy can be stable when it contains such a huge and central instability as rocketing house prices and debt. Quite.
• The shopping myth – destructive, wrong and just plain insulting.
• Guardian profile of Amartya Sen from 2001 – ‘he prefers to be subversive in a technical way’.
• Guardian Profile of Daniel Dennet by Andrew Brown
• fire swords – way cool (AVI movies, 8MB each).
• Christian Jarrett
• Ellen Poliakoff
• All Models Are False, Some Are Useful. signal + noise
• Cool collection of quotes
• interdisciplines conference list

• They lied. They lied. They lied. And they’ll keep on lying.
• MP3 of Ani DiFranco’s poem about 9/11, Self-Evident.
• ‘The exam is History of Mankind.’
• Bush administration has used 27 rationales for war in Iraq, study says
• Increase Your Mental Ability with the HAPPYneuron Tool
• Corante : Loom on The genetics and chemistry of love
• steinsky.me.uk
• Literature, Cognition & the Brain, a web page featuring research at the intersection of literary studies, cognitive theory, and neuroscience
• Crooked Timber discussion on moral justification of torture (Hilarious)
• Secrets of successful neural aging: marathons, fornication and crosswords via boingboing

• http://www.nationmaster.com/ – ‘Where stats come alive!’
• Full marks to whoever did this UK subvert
• The Museum of Scientifically Accurate Fabric Brain Art
• 12 ways to degunk your PC
• Mind Changers (BBC)
• Live fast, die old : High metabolic rate gives mice a longer life
• Nocebo – the evil twin of the placebo effect
• Bill Bailey video clips
• More Bill Bailey video clips
• Good on-line guide to statistics tests
• Pathophysiology of the endocrine system – ebook
• Doonesbury from 1987: Return to Regan’s Brain

• Dogs are more sensitive to human social cues than chimps
• Laundry folding hacks! (these two both via www.andreaharner.com).
• Good Sci Am article on the Flynn Effect – that IQ increases every generation.
• onetermpresident.org
• Donald Brown’s list of Human Universals.
• rumsfeld takes swift action to resolve the problem he clearly sees at the heart of prison abuse: he’s banned digital cameras and cameraphones in iraq. via ambiguous.org
• The Official Documents website contains a selection of Government titles covering a very broad range of topics including the economy, work and welfare, health, transport and the environment.
• Impact factors for various psychology journals. (don’t know how much i trust this list)
• experimentswithpeople.com
• gay rights summed up via lots of people

• Alpha Male: slide show by photographer Thomas Haywood
• Circle line tube party, March 2003. My kind of people
• Observer profile of Chomsky, november 2003
• In an ocean of nonsense, read something sensible about martial arts on the internet
• The Freeway Blogger – When you put a sign on the freeway people will read it until someone takes it down.
• Awesome photos of japanese homeless
• A sociological tour through cyberspace
• Sociology jeopardy!
• feralchildren.com – A list of isolated, confined and feral children
• And the prize for worst pun in a journal title goes to Katie Witkiewitz and Alan Marlatt
• Brain music, purkinje sounds
• Early works of Michael Leunig

• Walmart: turning people into profit
• Danah Boyd’s blog “i’m a Ph.D. student at SIMS – UC Berkeley. I’m interested in how people manage social contexts and adjust their presentation of self accordingly; i’m particularly fascinated by the tension between the social and technology that supports it.”
• Wikipedia – the free, on-line, collaborative encyclopedia
• The Brain from Top to Bottom – ‘Each currently available topic takes you to several sub-topics, with 5 levels of organization and your choice of 3 levels of explanation.
• Why Am I Getting All This Spam? Report by the Center for Democracy & Technology
• A very groovy brain gene – via Pharyngula
• Review of The Corporation by the Economist
• And in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink, via veiled4allah
• Bush in 30 seconds – polygraph

• The Lecture List provides a moderated listing service for lectures around the UK, and enables registered users to keep up to date with talks by their favourite speakers, on their favourite subjects, in their favourite venues, and in their geographical area.
• Ah- the car-crash fascination of brutally honest personal ads
• Spencer Tunick mass-participative installation photography!
• Kurt Vonnegut on In The Times
• Sylvia’s HCI blog
• There are 600,426,974,379,824,381,952 ways to spell Viagra
• A baloney detector from the creation science lobby
  

• Regular poetry events in london
• Gifting It: a documentary on the gift economy at Burning Man
• Principia Cybernetica
• New record soon from Camper Van Beethoven
• I am not a number! I am a collection of alphanumeric codes which accord with the UK Government Data Standards Catalogue
• using the technology of today to bring the theories of yesterday to the languages of tomorrow.The Universal Translator Assistant Project. This program will search Vulcan, Klingon or Romulan dictionaries…
• Language Log on the Whorfian hypothesis (and evidence supporting)

• Kevin Warwick: a life in pictures
• North Wales deputy chief constable Clive Wolfendale has been criticised for performing a rap to his force’s black police association.
• You don’t have to interview too many moderate central defenders before concluding that both of you are wasting your lives.
• Map the interlocked directorates of the biggest corporations in the US – TheyRule.net
• Steve Grand on Where Newton went wrong
• Papers by Burkhard Pleger

Linkloggery 3rd May 2004:

• What has Borges been doing since he … er … died?”
• Without doubt the finest christian rock band of all
• 12-step recovery plan for apathetics
• WebExhibits is a public service seeking to make people more savvy at making decisions (e.g., looking at lots of evidence), and more informed about science and culture (e.g., studying connections between art and science).
• Andrew Brown being lucid, engaging and funny some more (on religion this time)
• Updated greenmap pages
• Powers of ten demo