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SRMDAotW + Crazy Japanese Video of the Week

I know, ninjas, I know. The Semi-rere Mickey D’s ad of the Week, AND the Japanese Show of the Week are two features that have been severely lacking around here. I ain’t ashamed. And, guess what? Chicken butt!

Okay, that was juvenile. In order to make up for our blatant effrontery with the lack of features, I now present to you both of these amazing features rolled into one 30 second snack wrap. Lovin’ it…

Foto del Dia 3.29.11

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How TV Ruined Your Life

How TV Ruined Your Life is a 6 episode BBC 2 series, written and presented by Charlie Brooker. It examines the ways in which our realities and media are inexorable from and and constantly affecting one another. This is just the first episode. Skip on over to YouTube to view the rest of the series.

What is the Mean Time to Innocence?

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The conventional wisdom inside most companies, and even within most IT organizations, is that the cause of application degradation invariably is the network. This piece of conventional wisdom leads to a new management metric — the mean time to innocence (MTTI). The MTTI is how long it takes for the networking organization to prove it is not the network causing the degradation. Once that task is accomplished, it is common to assume some other component of IT such as the servers must be at fault.

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What is Web 2.0?

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The difference between this Web 2.0 model and the previous one is directly equivalent to the difference between a rain forest and a desert. One of the primary reasons we value tropical rain forests is because they waste so little of the energy supplied by the sun while running massive nutrient cycles. Most of the solar energy that saturates desert environments gets lost, assimilated by the few plants that can survive in such a hostile climate. Those plants pass on enough energy to sustain a limited number of insects, which in turn supply food for the occasional reptile or bird, all of which ultimately feed the bacteria. But most of the energy is lost.

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Quote of the Day

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What we found in our studies is that you can recover more effectively, work out harder more frequently, increase muscle mass and enhance the physical adaptations that are happening when you exercise just by minding what supplements you use and when you supplement. via

What is Expertise?

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Among investigators of expertise, it has generally been assumed that the performance of experts improved as a direct function of increases in their knowledge through training and extended experience.  However, recent studies show that there are, at least,  some domains where "experts" perform no better then less trained individuals (cf. outcomes of therapy by clinical psychologists, Dawes, 1994) and that sometimes experts’ decisions are no more accurate than beginners’ decisions and simple decision aids (Camerer & Johnson, 1991; Bolger & Wright, 1992). Most individuals who start as active professionals or as beginners in a domain change their behavior and increase their performance for a limited time until they reach an acceptable level. Beyond this point, however, further improvements appear to be unpredictable and the number of years of work and leisure experience in a domain is a poor predictor of attained performance (Ericsson & Lehmann, 1996). Hence, continued improvements (changes) in achievement are not automatic consequences of more experience and in those domains where performance consistently increases aspiring experts seek out particular kinds of experience, that is deliberate practice (Ericsson, Krampe & Tesch-Römer, 1993)-activities designed, typically by a teacher, for the sole purpose of effectively improving specific aspects of an individual’s performance.

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Who is Bill Buxton?

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The Microsoft researcher is a technologist, a designer, a musician, an author, outdoorsman and a nationally ranked equestrian. via

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