J. Edgar entered theaters this weekend, and my wife and I had the opportunity to see it last night. Unfortunately, the movie only put the exclamation point on a disappointing evening (it was raining, dinner at Macaroni Grill was an hour and fifteen minutes wait to get our meal after we ordered – well, you
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In this week’s Nerd Pride Friday segment, I wanted to highlight a documentary that was released on DVD a few weeks ago called The People v. George Lucas. For those of you who (like me) are big Star Wars fans, you’ll probably appreciate this documentary. Star Wars has been a solid part of the popular culture since the
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As the data science and big data technology booms start accelerating, it’s worth noting how these technologies will change our lives – both positively and potentially negatively. I posted previously about the ongoing discussion of privacy, but I’ve found another post on GigaOM about the same topic. According to the article, the Supreme Court of
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Here’s a neat little interview conducted by Internet Evolution’s Todd Watson of Michael Lewis and Billy Beane. Watson was attending the Information OnDemand event this past month, where one of the key themes of the event was the idea of putting business analytics into practice to help improve business outcomes. Watson felt that Beane did a
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Today, Audrey Watters of O’Reilly Radar posts her interview with Terence Craig, co-author of Privacy and Big Data, about the impacts of big data on personal privacy. Craig makes the claim that data transparency will eventually trump anonymity, meaning that our lives will be less private in the future as we all take advantage of the technologies
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Unfortunately, I can’t find a real good reason to post this – except the fact that I LOVE Seinfeld, and I thought these T-shirts were some of the coolest things I’ve run across in a while. Since there was a Seinfeld episode about Jerry going to see “Plan 9 from Outer Space”, I thought I’d
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…is the New Oxford American Dictionary’s 2009 Word of the Year. The term “unfriend”, a verb, means to remove someone as a friend on a social networking Web site such as Facebook. (read more here…) Oxford lexicographer Christine Lindberg says unfriend has “real lex appeal.” (ugh…. there is no such thing as a good pun…) Admittedly,
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Recently, Sharon Begley of Newsweek wrote about psychologists’ unwillingness to utilize proven scientific methods in their practices. For example, Begley points out that rigorous clinical trials show that cognitive and cognitive-behavior therapies are effective against depression, panic disorder, bulimia nervosa, obsessive-compulsive disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder. Instead she brings to our attention that: “Millions of
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