[Dave Birch] One of my most frequent criticisms of the UK's national identity card scheme is that it is backward-looking, an electronic simulation of a Victorian ID card rather than an ID card for the 21st century. I gave an example of this in a talk recently by using the case of OpenID, noting that...

Did Jesus ever get on anyone's nerves?...

All photography by Simon Sellars. Bizarrely, it has been almost a year since I posted the first part of this photo essay. There are so many loose ends dangling from this site, frayed and incomplete due to the mad scramble to complete my PhD in the latter half of 2008. Now it’s my mission to cl...

Many people assume that morality — our sense of what is “right” and just in this world versus what is wrong — is something we formulate through a process of time, experience and thinking. We equate morality with higher reasoning and not a base instinct like hunger or the need...

Two unemployed young men of my acquaintance came into possession of some venison a few weeks ago. February is well past hunting season and one of them is a country boy trained in covert military operations, so I considered the possibility the meat might not have come packaged from a food shelf.
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Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 One of the research lines that I am pursuing (and most likely would be focusing on for my dissertation) is looking at corporate personalities.  Corporate personalities can be associated with brand personality, which is “a set of human char...

How to Hallucinate With Ping-Pong Balls and a Radio Makes you wonder how much of the rest of our reality is only a conventional illusion.Tags: hallucination mind illusion purkinje perception Preston L. Bannister { random memes } Precisely (in an as-precisely-as-you-can-map-reality sort of way).Tags:...

It has been a while since I have written a post on track and field, but this story caught my attention.  Just after the Beijing Olympics,  CEO Doug Logan’s goals was to designate a panel of athletes and administrators to determine what the best course of action is to build the sport of track...

    Barack Obama is doing his ’presidential thing’ today. He’s out there selling himself, his party and his recovery and reinvestment plan.  Remember it’s no longer the economic stimulus package . They’ve dropped that loser name for a more uplifting one- recovery ...

It appears that the impact of his actions and inappropriate behavior has finally caught up with Michael Phelps.  After a media storm hitting the mainstream media, blogs, and internet sites– Phelps made the following statement to the media about his most recent PR Nightmare incident: “It...