A couple years ago, I started wearing bifocal lenses, because I’m getting old and I can no longer read my own watch properly if I’m wearing distance glasses, which I need to, well, function. I can actually see okay close up if I take my glasses off or look over … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: December 2008
My Honey Pot Caught a Harvester!
I participate in Project Honey Pot, which is “the first and only distributed system for identifying spammers and the spambots they use to scrape addresses from your website”. (Follow the link above to learn more, including how you can participate, and you don’t even need to be a site administrator.) … Continue reading
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Dancing Plague, Mass Hysteria, and Bandwagon Syndrome
Today I somehow managed to come across the Dancing Plague of 1518, a very strange and historically documented event in which a number of people basically danced to death in the street. Weird, and fascinating. And then I wandered off to the topic of Mass Hysteria and Bandwagon Effect, which … Continue reading →
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