Tuesday, March 28, 2006

attention Why we read what we read when angry. When men and women are angry, they both choose the news media articles they read with the goal of regulating their moods, a new study suggests. But, in some circumstances, men choose to read articles that will fuel their anger, while women choose articles that will dissipate it. read more [Science Blog -] 4:27:45 PM    comment

privacy Open-Government Technique Used on Iraqi Documents. [Slashdot] To the victors go the documents and the work goes to the open source model of many helping hands.  This is a truly interesting move to at one stroke open the star chamber and publish the regime notes in bulk to the world.  Given the NSA data mining and processing power this seems like a gesture after the "golden documents" have been sifted out on the first pass.  In any event the transparancy notion is laudable and perhaps could set a trend that would be of great value to historians - an open archive via google.  -- BL 1:58:55 PM    comment