Trying not to feel guilty about misunderstanding shame

April 2, 2012

Garret Hardin’s idea that the emotion of shame can help to manage a common resource has always been a favourite for me. Up to 150 people, as Hardin suggested, can help one another do the right thing (for them all) by instilling a feeling of shame in transgressors. Seems he and I have been wrong. [...]

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A ride around the Roman outskirts

March 24, 2012

View Bike ride 2012-03-18 in a larger map Rome is not a cycle-friendly city. It could be, if the Romans could be persuaded to give up their beloved motor cars, of which, in 2008, there were 2.4 million to 2.5 million people. Not sure whether that is people people, or people old enough to drive. [...]

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Useful links matter to me

March 17, 2012

We’re all guilty sometimes of over linking to our own material, in the belief that this may affect our search engine rankings. The practice is really bad on some ad-farms and joke news sites, where some sort of automatic software creates a scattergun of links, often double underlined,1 that are generally useless. And, fortunately, easy [...]

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