Well, that's just sad

Davy Jones, that is. Makes you fell so old, if you're my generation.

According to the Harry Nilsson documentary ("Who is Harry Nilsson"), this is the song that broke him through to the big time.

People aren't smart enough for democracy

The thing is, when we don't know something, we don't recognize that other people don't know it either. "To the extent that you are incompetent, you are a worse judge of incompetence in other people." Great. Assuming that the great unwashed don't know much about, say, fixing the economy, how can they pick someone to fix the economy? Link: People Aren't Smart Enough for Democracy to Flourish, Scientists Say.

No, you can't multitask

At least not successfully. "Human information processing is insufficient for attending to multiple input streams and for performing simultaneous tasks." What a shock. Worse, the study in this article shows that texting and Facebook are crucial factors in lower GPAs, as compared to other multi-t distractions. Then again, it could just be that people with lower GPAs do a lot of texting and Facebooking (which may even be more telling!).

J. P. Finch-ish

This is what I mean:

 

England loves Radcliffe, anyhow

Daniel Radcliffe's The Woman in Black sets British horror record. Interesting, given that the picture seems to have barely existed in the US. One has to wonder about the future of the Potter actors: after 8 movies in character, and having grown up in those characters, how well can we accept them as someone else? On the other hand, Radcliffe looked pretty J. P. Finch-ish in How to Succeed. 

We'll see. 

Update - All new. Again!

So here's what happened. For the longest time my team wanted to get something up on the internet to officially support our products. We finally got the nod, and for about six months, we did whatever we wanted to do, trial and error without much feedback, and then the powers that be revised the corporate website, without a place for what we were doing. Business is like that.

Still, one gets into the habit. There is so much out there, so much junk you don't want to see, but also a lot of good stuff that may be hard to find. So, why not just go on? Not a lot of explanation, not a lot of analysis. Just a bunch of good stuff to read and watch.

Enjoy.