One of the technologies we’re fooling around with at work is microgames, which (in our case) are very small games, usually implemented in Adobe Flash, that take a couple of minutes to play. They often involve logic puzzles, and “training you without you knowing it”.
I just found this really fun one called Light-Bot. The goal is to give a robot a series of instructions to traverse a path of blocks to light up the blue ones. You write the program visually by dragging action icons onto program slots and then running the program. Read on…
TechCrunch, a blog I don’t think I’ve mentioned yet, has an exellent post listing a bunch of ways to follow next week’s US presidential elections. It seems there are quite a few websites throwing their hat into this ring.
Gepostet von Stani is a very cool person. He created an open source IDE for Python called SPE (Stani’s Python Editor). He really outdid himself now, though. He designed a new comemorative coinve for the Dutch government. Read on…
At the Software Development Best Practices conference yesterday, I went to a session on Human-Centered Risk Management. It was totally fascinating! One topic that was discussed was Rhetorical fallacies.
Rhetorical fallacies, or fallacies of argument, don’t allow for the open, two-way exchange of ideas upon which meaningful conversations depend. Instead, they distract the reader with various appeals instead of using sound reasoning. They can be divided into three categories:
- Emotional fallacies unfairly appeal to the audience’s emotions.
- Ethical fallacies unreasonably advance the writer’s own authority or character (personal attack).
- Logical fallacies depend upon faulty logic.
Here’s a pretty good article on the subject.
“I must study politics and war that
my sons may have liberty to study
mathematics and philosophy. ”
John Adams
Here it is. http://www.sitorsquat.com/ is a website that helps you find a public restroom, or help add to the database of public toilets. They could have picked a different name, though.