The somewhat random musings of Dave Kinkead pertaining to the rather lovely matters of philosophy, cycling, geekery and of course skiing.

  1. Very clever ad

  2. "Commercials claiming that the viewer doesn’t exist or that his death would be meaningless didn’t test well with 18-35 year-old men, although several said it was refreshing to finally hear an oil company be honest about how it viewed its customers."
    http://fauxphilnews.wordpress.com/2012/03/30/anti-realists-attack-climate-science-in-new-ad-campaign/
  3. Somewhere I’d rather be….

    Somewhere I’d rather be….

    (Source: someoneisalwaysfaster, via treadlyandme)

  4. This is actually pretty big news

    for anyone following the open access debate

    http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ma.tum.de%2FMathematik%2FBibliothekElsevier

  5. "The thing was pirated to the skies. It’s all over the Web now, ridiculously easy to download without paying. The crazy thing was, sales of the book did not fall. In fact, sales rose slightly during that year."
    http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/12/david-pogue-revisits-drm-question-and-ebooks.html
  6. "The conclusion that simple, one-dimensional ideas about the world are bound to be wrong is an idea so threatening to those who hold simple, one-dimensional ideas about the world."
    Robert Dahl

  7. This is a really nice approach to the prisoner’s dilemma.

  8. Awesome! Not only are conservative views linked to lower intelligence, but homophobia is a strong marker of repressed homosexuality.  Some days I just love science!

    http://pss.sagepub.com/content/early/2012/01/04/0956797611421206.abstract
    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8772014

  9. Speaking too soon?

    It really doesn’t take long for proclamations like this to look really stupid…

    http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/bikie-violence-no-danger-to-public-police-20120427-1xpku.html

    http://media.brisbanetimes.com.au/news/national-news/bikie-war-explodes-in-shopping-centre-3256182.html

    2 days in fact

  10. Got milk?

    Got milk?

    (via treadlyandme)