Archive for August, 2008
If the Shoe Overfits… Part One
August 22nd, 2008(This is part one of a two-part series on criticism of MBTI personality theory. In part one, I set the stage and cover some basic criticisms. In part two, I’ll cover some in-depth criticisms and wrap things up.
I’ve written about the Myers-Briggs (MBTI) personality test in this blog in the past here, and in two parts here and here. As such, this post assumes you have a basic knowledge of MBTI theory. If you’re not familiar with MBTI tests, that post is a decent place to start.)
I’ve read a large number of books about MBTI personality …
Word Play
August 15th, 2008The other day I happened to come across a nifty new feature on the data sharing site “Many Eyes” called “Wordles”. As you may know from my last post, I’ve already written about Many Eyes before (here and here) as well as another data sharing site, Swivel, here.
But Wordles are something new: highly customizable tag clouds. Many Eyes already has tag cloud functionality, of course; I was an especially big fan of their tag cloud comparsion tool. But tag clouds don’t have the best reputation. Some people outright hate them. And the people at Many …
Slow Movin’ MCs Is Waiting for the Editin’
August 15th, 2008Tonight’s post is ready to go, but my brother won’t be able to edit it until late. So, I’ll just put it up early this morning. Sorry about that. The semi-relevant title of this post is from the Wu-Tang rapper GZA’s song “Duel of the Iron Mic”. Be back in a few hours!
Flight of Fancy
August 7th, 2008Well, this week I’ll be out-of-town for the third straight weekend in a row. The last two weekends I’ve been able to post despite this, but it’s finally all catching up with me. I also have to pack more than usual this week, and get up super early for a flight. I got about halfway through a post this week but I’m just running out of time. Sorry folks, you’ll have to wait until next week.
In the meantime, feel free to check out this Google Tech Talk I came across. (I talked about Google Tech …
Geography Lesson
August 1st, 2008Geography was not my strong suit in school; it required lots of memorization about a lot of faraway places I’d never been to in the 6th grade. To make matters worse, geographical names for countries and cities change all the time. Seemed kind of silly to my pre-teen self.
At some level, though, I realized the utility in it. I undertook to learn what I could, which was usually just their names along with some other odd fact here and there (”Burma’s main export is jute”, etc.). Some years later, in college, I found out much more …