We continuously iterate ourselves and observe some obvious things. Some aspects of these obvious things are pretty amazing, this is what I got when I debugged my thought process.
Posted: December 24th, 2010
at 1:43pm by Koookiecrumbles
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Net Neutrality is a set of laws that ensure: Any Internet connection lets you access anything on the Internet. AAll traffic is treated equally, regardless of source and destination. AAnyone with a computer and an Internet connection can host their own website or web service and publish whatever they like. AYour connection is not censored - you’re free to look at whatever you like and say whatever you like. You can look at porn and talk about how you hate the government to your heart’s content.
Posted: December 24th, 2010
at 1:39pm by Koookiecrumbles
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And that's why 2010 gets to be thanked. It marked an important moment of no return. No more floundering. No more waiting for someone else to show the way. No more imagining that surely everything will be alright eventually. It will be, of course, but because I will make it so. I fear it sounds like I swallowed a self-help book, but I'm grateful for being able to recognize that we have one life, so best start living it sharpish. Yes, bills need to be paid and responsibilities have to be faced. But no more of the hamster wheel. The viable economy of all our futures will be built on the passion and talent of individuals. Time to put up and shut up. Bring it, 2011.
Posted: December 24th, 2010
at 1:38pm by Koookiecrumbles
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Ninja Moped - Insert Coin
Coin stop motion animation.. my ninja please.

Posted: December 24th, 2010
at 12:02am by Koookiecrumbles
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Everyone who has committed to having an impact in the world is faced with critics. Often critics come from those who know us best. AAll too often we hear, "You can't do that…" It's hard to dismiss their criticism because they know us best and maybe they are right. AHowever, here is how I choose to think about their criticism.
Posted: December 23rd, 2010
at 11:56pm by Koookiecrumbles
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On the very important subject of our basic purposes, i.e., the key functions we most work to achieve via the details of our behavior, I do in fact think that we more self-deceived than not. We are homo hypocritus, creatures built to fool ourselves in order to fool others on why we do things. While our beliefs seem reasonably reliable on near details, such as what exactly we see and do at each moment, we are quite often rather deceived about the overall far goals and purposes our behavior is designed to achieve.
Posted: December 23rd, 2010
at 11:49pm by Koookiecrumbles
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A simple sugar pill may help treat a disease a even if patients know they’re getting fake medicine. AThe finding, reported online Wednesday in the journal PloS One, may point the way to wider a and more ethical a applications of the well-known "placebo effect." A "The conventional wisdom is you need to make a patient think they’re taking a drug; you have to use deception and lies," said lead author Ted Kaptchuk, an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. And, Kaptchuk added, it seems many doctors do this: In one report, as many as half of rheumatologists and internists surveyed said they had intentionally given patients ineffective medication in the hopes it would have a positive result.
Posted: December 23rd, 2010
at 11:25pm by Koookiecrumbles
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I first met Jimbo Wales, the face of Wikipedia, when he came to speak at Stanford. Wales told us about Wikipedia's history, technology, and culture, but one thing he said stands out. "The idea that a lot of people have of Wikipedia," he noted, "is that it's some emergent phenomenon a the wisdom of mobs, swarm intelligence, that sort of thing a thousands and thousands of individual users each adding a little bit of content and out of this emerges a coherent body of work."ABut, he insisted, the truth was rather different: Wikipedia was actually written by "a community … a dedicated group of a few hundred volunteers" where "I know all of them and they all know each other". Really, "it's much like any traditional organization."
Posted: December 23rd, 2010
at 11:19pm by Koookiecrumbles
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