Extinctions on the rise.

Extinctions on the rise.

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1 Communication usually fails, except by accident
1.1 If communication can fail, it will
1.2 If communication cannot fail, it still most usually fails
1.3 If communicaiton seems to succeed in the intended way, there's a misunderstanding
1.4 If you are content with your message, communication certainly fails
2 If a message can be interpreted in several ways, it will be interpreted in a manner that maximizes the damage
3 There is always someone who knows better than you what you meant with your message
4 The more we communicate, the worse communication succceeds
4.1 The more we communicate, the faster misunderstandings propagate
5 In mass communication, the important thing is not how things are but how they seem to be
6 The importance of a news item is inversely proportional to the square of the distance
7 The more important the situation is, the more probably you forget an essential thing that you remembered a moment ago

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A commentary of Wiio’s laws
Wiio’s laws are humoristically formulated serious observations about
how human communication usually fails except by accident.
This document comments on the applicability and consequences of the laws,
especially as regards to communication on the Internet.

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More of those graphs of correlations here.

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Things that correlate
Why do these things correlate? These 20 correlations will blow your mind.

(Is this headline sensationalist enough for you to click on it yet?)

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 Eating chicken requires crude oil.

Coincidence?  I think not.  Eating chicken requires crude oil.

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 Took this one outside my front door a few minutes ago with my Moto X.

The photo blur effect on Google’s Camera app is pretty neat.  Took this one outside my front door a few minutes ago with my Moto X.

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Anyway, there's a collection of studies over the past couple of decades that seem to show that the type of man a woman is attracted to changes based upon where they are in their menstrual cycle.

This new meta-study purports to show that those studies are wrong.

The thorough review of research on the drivers of human reproduction, in the journal Emotion Review, highlighted the importance of verification in the scientific method, as well as potential problems in how science is reported in the media. Wood and her team found that the correlations between menstrual cycle and mate preference declined over time, that is, most subsequent attempts to replicate the finding showed less of an effect.
The researchers also revealed that papers that did not show a link between menstrual cycle and sexual preference — that only showed no such correlation existed — were much less likely to be accepted for publication in a journal, often despite more precise methodology.

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What do women want? Here’s what scientists might have gotten wrong
Over the last two decades, studies in reproductive biology and psychology have purported to show a correlation between what women want in a male partner and the time of the month — demonstrating that which guy catches a woman’s eye changes across the menstrual cycle.

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Level 3 Communications all but calls out consumer broadband providers in the USA.

It's a pretty great article with lots of behind the scenes detail about how broadband providers like Comcast connect to the wider internet and how they're deliberately harming the internet experience of their customers.

That leaves the remaining six peers with congestion on almost all of the interconnect ports between us. Congestion that is permanent, has been in place for well over a year and where our peer refuses to augment capacity. They are deliberately harming the service they deliver to their paying customers. They are not allowing us to fulfil the requests their customers make for content.

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Observations of an Internet Middleman – Beyond Bandwidth
We received a lot of positive feedback, as well as a lot of questions when Mike posted his recent story, Chicken. Many of the questions asked for more spec

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Flying robot orchestra.

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My first inclination is that if you think money is ruining politics in the USA, then you should go donate to this ASAP.

Government has failed us. More than 90% of Americans link that failure to the influence of money in politics.

Yet the politicians ignore this influence. While America founders, they spend endless time with their funders.

These funders hold our democracy hostage. We want to pay the ransom, and get it back.

We're going to kickstart a SuperPAC big enough to make it possible to win a Congress committed to fundamental reform by 2016.

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MayOne.us – SuperPAC to end all SuperPacs. Mayday for the Republic.
MayOne.us – SuperPAC to end all SuperPacs. Join our effort to win a Congress committed to reforming the influence of money in Politics.

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Not a single living person knows how everything in your five-year-old MacBook actually works.

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Programming Sucks
Every friend I have with a job that involves picking up something heavier than a laptop more than twice a week eventually finds a way to slip something like this into conversation: “Bro,1 you don’t work hard. I just worked a 4700-hour week digging a tunnel under Mordor with a screwdriver.” …

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