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Jonah Lehrer and the Psychology of Making Stuff Up
Jonah Lehrer's having a rough summer. A month ago, when the author and journalist was busted, bizarrely, for self-plagiarizing — that is, reusing passages of his own work in newly published articles at the _New Yorker's_ website - he said "it was a...
When Casting Directors Are Idiots
You know your movie is heading downhill when you're looking for a leading man with locks like a "young" Mick Jagger... When was Mick ever young?
This Is the Way Facebook Ends
Let's not forget everything Facebook has done for us. In leveraging our social curiosity and innate egomania, Mark Zuckerberg unleashed a social revolution, compelling us to share even the most mundane aspects of our lives. No longer anonymous trolls...
Guess What the Secret Password Was to America's Cold War Nuclear Missile System
No foolin': The secret access code to the computer controls of the U.S. nuclear-tipped missile arsenal between 1968 and 1976: "00000000":http://harpers.org/archive/2004/09/0080175.
Just Die Already: Users Spend More Time on Myspace Than Google+
The Goog is boasting that more than 90 million people have signed up for Google+. Those are pretty impressive numbers. I mean, if you had 90 million people at your disposal, you could do anything. You'd rule the Internet. Except there's one little...
Computer Hate: No One Got Kraftwerk Tickets
Be careful MoMA and Showclix: you have made Kraftwerk fans angry. In the midst of today's massive ticket-selling fiasco for the band's eight "full-album shows":http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1257 at the museum, someone commented on...
Was Space Shuttle Challenger a Casualty of Bad Data Visualization?
The U.S. is no stranger to the collapse of complex systems. But two decades before the break-up of Space Shuttle Columbia, the Deepwater Horizon blowout, and Fukashima Daiichi, America witnessed the Challenger disaster on January 28, 1986, and saw...
"A Networking Event": When The Cloud Broke
Sometime around 3 in the morning, a problem occurred with Amazon Web Services Elastic Compute Cloud 2. In other words, our website said, "Sorry, something went wrong."
An Obscene Tweet in the Motor City Leads Chrysler to Throw Social Mad Men to the Fire
Chrysler, the barely big-3 automaker that saw its annual unit sales drop by roughly two-thirds between 1999 and 2009, needed friends. Having alienated two or three generations of the driving public, the company--now owned by Fiat, the American and...