Sabado, Abril 30, 2011

No One Is Unbiased

I get agitated every time I see something that claims to be unbiased.

It really does. You could claim you don't favor one side, but we know how that goes.

You could say you are open to some ideas, but then you make exceptions for some things that are considered amoral. Which means you still have a bias. See.

"Fine, but how do you explain the neutral views of people?"

Nice try. I consider myself a realist and I'm willing to admit it is still relative and subjected to bias. I could claim that this is the real world and not some idealist dream. The thing is even I can't say the world works exactly like that.

Right and wrong are relative.

Even in this speech, you could see that there are three types of realists according to this person. There is still some amount of bias, but the point is to get close.

Science just bases things from factual stuff, but some researches are subjected to bias. Science maybe the closest thing we have to something exact, but we can't say it is exact.

It may seem that I'm avoiding the question, but I will give you a direct answer. Those views that are unbiased are just (nearly)universally accepted. It is something that no one would complain about.

If it somehow sounds familiar then you must be familiar with the difference between good and great work.

Good work appeals to everybody. It just seems okay, but  it is still decent enough.

Great work isn't for everybody, but it is amazing to people who understand it.

Now you could see that these neutral views are accepted that no one would complain.

Sometimes, you want to listen to views that agree to yours. Its okay. I am willing to seem really biased if it means avoiding these universal views.

"You nuts?! You expect everyone to listen to their own views and not understand the other side?! You are a sick creature."

Kinda, but not quite.

I believe(just like every other person) that each person is unique. That means someone else has similar views, but not the exact thing.

There is still this gap that disagrees with the other person. This is the great thing. No matter what these like minded people will still end up in disagreements, but they will understand the other's views.

My views gradually changed, because I check some blogs that have a similar mindset, but there is something that think differently from me.

(Do not kill me after reading this paragraph) I liked Batman and Robin.*RUNS AWAY* Of course that has actually changed.When you are hearing a different person's views who is similar to yours, then you somehow listen and don't roll your eyes the moment you hear it.

Somehow I have gone to Seth's blog, because of Kamen Rider. They seem unrelated, but  it is really gradual that you have no idea you highly disagreed with these guys before.

"So how do you propose on letting someone be unbiased...in a way?"

Tell them everyone's views, but make it gradual. You have to take it easy and make it slow. Start with a view that agrees with yours, then slowly move away.You go from a view similar to yours then to another view that is similar to the other view and then you get the idea.

You'll be surprised how far I got. I had never expected ending up on Signals Vs. Noise, but my starting point was Kamen Rider.

The paradox is by reading or watching things that agree with you views, you somehow end up agreeing with what you used to disagree.

Bonus:

"What was the point of this?"

My next post will be about how I visualize reviews in Web 3.0.

People have been saying that Web 3.0 will be personal and somehow bias will make it a lot mor personal.

Stanley Kubrick:An Animated Filmography

This is somehow a drastic improvement to the original posters. The Shining part was pretty good.

Brave Woman Teases Cheetah

She has got some guts. She should be casted for the Thundercats movie

Vicar Does a Cartwheel

Guinness World Record for Longest Freestyle Rap

Chiddy Bang was able to rap for more than 9 hours. Check the last few minutes in the video, but don't expect something for the last few minutes

Theo The Angry Vegan

Now I know what not to do in front of a vegan

Vehicle Arestor

Let's hope this is just the prototype

Biyernes, Abril 29, 2011

Katy Perry Friday Cover

Katy Perry suddenly got creepy

Paper Duke Nukem

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Still not enough to make up the REALLY long wait for the game to be released.

Portal Gun

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It doesn't fire, but the LED at the center switches between blue and orange.

Nathan Fillion Slap of the Day - TDW Geeks

Royal Wedding Hater

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For once, I see this as good advice.

The Simpsons Alphabet

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Need to watch more Simpsons

Grade Inflation

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Money isn't the only thing inflated over time

Color Has The Creepiest Photo in Royal Wedding

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At least Color contributed something funny to the wedding.

Jesus VS. Batman

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Maybe this isn't the best argument I've seen.

I never realized some people don't know that Batman is a DC character

"Mega Man" #1 Trailer

I think I'm going to read this in order to understand the story of the first Megaman(based from what I know)

Nyan Violin

If you want the lyrics, you only need to remember one word. NYAN.

Kid feels our pain about royal wedding

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I feel sorry for her

DDR and Violin at the same time

I still agree that multitasking is merely shifting your attention, but this makes me look like an idiot.

Death Metal Vocal Exercise

Now this makes a lot more sense

Monkeytail Beard

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Beards are manly, but this is an obvious exception

Epic Meal Time Kids Edition

He's gonna suffer from childhood obesity at this rate.

Ninja For Hire

5 bucks for a ninja.

Effects of Portal 2

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Seems familiar

Carp Hunters

A dumb way to kill time

Outcomes of Owning a Lightsaber

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Luke is a rare breed

Transformers:Dark Of The Moon Trailer

All you need to know is that there are tons of explosions.

Real Life Super Mario Bros.

I need to tap that

Marky Mark and Justin Bieber will work on a Basketball Movie

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If you saw Zac Efron crooning sweet songs to his basketball in High School Musical and thought, “Hmm, I like the sports angle, but… is it tween-friendly enough?”  You’re in luck, because Mark Wahlberg says he’s developing a basketball drama with Justin Bieber.  Oh, also, Wahlberg calls Bieber the “white Tupac.”

“The world needs Justin Bieber. Justin Bieber is like the white Tupac. Compared to a lot of people.”

People like who, Danny Masterson?  Amanda Seyfried? What does that even mean? Good grief.  Anyway, let’s not get sidetracked.  Right, the basketball movie.

And is there somebody, sort of unexpected, that you want to work with?
Yeah, Justin Bieber and I are going to do a movie together …

Is that actually true?
Well, we’re putting it together. Yeah. We’re doing it at Paramount. We pitched them the idea and, you know, we’re talking about doing it. He loves the idea. He’s been sending me video, he sent me a video of himself [hee hee! -Ed.], and, yeah, I think he’s really talented. [Vulture]

Yes, being able to out-ball the Jonas Brothers is truly a feat.  Those guys aren’t even coordinated enough to stand while they pee.  But just in case you thought Wahlberg might be screwing with us, Deadline has more info on the project, which they claim as an EXCLUSIVE, with a tastefully restrained lack of “TOLDJAs” in the headline:

Bieber will star alongside Mark Wahlberg in an untitled drama that will revolve around street basketball and will give him the chance to show off his hoops skills.

The script will be written by Ian Edelman, creator of How To Make It In America, the HBO series that is exec produced by Wahlberg and Levinson, who hold the same titles on Entourage and Boardwalk Empire. The tone of the project is described as The Color of Money meets The Karate Kid, and it came out of Wahlberg and Levinson seeing Bieber play ball in February during a celebrity game held during NBA All-Star Game weekend. Bieber more than held his own against celebs and former players; he was named MVP. [Deadline]

This will go to my list of movies that probably will be bad. The problem? Bieber and Wahlberg made some good movies last and this year. On the other hand, the concept SUCKS.

Sebastian's Voodoo

Joaquin Baldwin won over 100 awards and a job at Disney, because of this short film

Omelet recipe printed on an egg

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Let's just hope you read it before you actually cracked it open

Music Painting

Matteo Negrin shows us how music looks like.

How to Use @Color for Trolling

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Time to start using Color

Human CentiPad

This is one Apple product that I will definitely skip.

iPhone Dock and Vinyl Player Concept by Olivier Meynard

The Turntable iPhone Dock combines two objects emblematic of their times to create harmony between past and present. Technology is often blamed for our disconnect with society but technologies were not created to isolate. The problem is products generally aren’t designed to create continuity. This turntable not only plays your old LP’s but also encodes them into MP3′s sent straight to your charging iPhone.

Clear iPhone

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Seems easier to know about the problem, but I'll pass.

The First Zombie-Proof House


Somehow, ritual drunk-conversation concerning team captains for the apocalypse has become a major part of the lives of 20-somethings. Having been matured in the Grandaddy-crowned masterpiece film (put “A.M. 180” on and forget that you have a job), 28 Days Later, we’re all a little too ready to deal with the 2012 of our dreams.






If you are planning to buy this house, you either have a lot of enemies or you watch/play way too many zombie related things

MINECRAFT Finite Liquid v2 MAJOR TSUNAMI

Thank God I haven't tried that in Minecraft

1.5 Year Old Soccer Player

This will crush your self-esteem if you can't play soccer very well...I want my mommy

Late Bloomer

Lovecraft meets sex ed.

Bike Built Entirely of Wood Could Set Speed Record

I have feeling it won't make it, but I might be wrong

How to Make Your Lie Go Mainstream in 26 Easy Steps

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Too bad the Glenn Beck step can't be done anymore...for now.

Roger Ebert's TED Talk

Roger Ebert makes a very funny and insightful talk by making other people talk.This talk is about finding his new voice.

Why You Shouldn't Share Child Slavery On Facebook

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I've seen this kind of problem before and people just make fun of it.

Guide To Making People Feel old

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Try not to feel bad about yourself.

Pyrex Hurt the Crack-Cocaine Industry

Pyrex is valued by cooks for its sturdiness in the kitchen, particularly its ability to withstand rapid, dramatic temperature changes that typically shatter normal glassware. It turns out that people making crack cocaine valued this quality too. The process of cooking powder cocaine into hardened crack is intense, and involves a container of water undergoing a rapid temperature change. For years, Pyrex measuring cups, manufactured by Corning, were a key component of the underground crack industry.

But Corning sold Pyrex in 1998 to World Kitchen, which altered the makeup of the Pyrex material, making it less resistant to temperature changes and more prone to shattering. This, points out the Popular Science article, had a substantial impact on crack production:

[A]n entire underground industry was forced to switch from measuring cups purchased at Walmart to test tubes and beakers stolen from labs. Which just goes to show, if you think you know all the consequences of your decisions today, you’re probably wrong.

Even drug dealers can be screwed up by cookware.

Atheist Funeral

The funeral parlors are threatened with a rising number of godless cheapskates. Undertakers hold that an atheist funeral must net at least as much money as the usual rip-offs, otherwise the religious Joneses would win: How could baby eaters possibly lose out against the Christians being on place two or three in terms of expenses? No way dude! Let's rot in diamond crusted gold boxes. Go atheism!


Internet search is my confidence booster. Whenever I am lacking confidence, uncertain whether what I wrote is good enough to escape deletion, I hit ‘the internets’ and look at what is written on the issue. Usually, all my worries disappear, replaced with quite different ones about the state of the human mind.


The following is what I suggest as somebody who has basically only one person who would notice my absence – so, take away the message and adapt to your own situation. My dear loved one; here is how the removal of my bodily remains is going to go down:


Look at the most expensive Christian funeral that you would possibly be successfully pressured into if I were a grumpy old Torah thumping Moslem. Did I just mix something up? Well who gives, can’t be anything important.



Say that funeral or cremation or dissolving in holy acid plus ceremony and golden shrine add up to ten kilo bucks (read:expensive). This is how much my funeral will cost you! No chance of guilty feelings about having dishonored me via a cheap funeral. Now you get rid of my stinking remains the cheapest way possible: Donate me to research, pay a few bucks to have me dumped in a pit, pretend not to know me and let the cops deal with it, whatever. So, say this sets you back 400 bucks.


Now you put the 10 grand minus 400 bucks into a savings account or some such, maybe buy a piece of gold, too. Why? Because graves or urns are there not to contain my matter but for you to have some place, some object that relates to my spirit. Spirit? Yes, just as much as the true spirit of the wasteful religious is actually present, presented by that wasteful tomb, so my rational spirit will be in fact present with you, presented by an object you can touch to be touched by.



Without some object left, nothing left at all but some of my possessions maybe, transporting an eerie emptiness rather than my spirit, you may regret having thrown my body into the dumpster; you may get the feeling of having or having been abandoned. That’s how we humans are. But you can hold that account book, and the remains of my rational spirit are right there, what made me me comes back to you.


When you get sick and need that money to get the medicine, when disaster strikes and that piece of gold maybe saves your behind, my spirit will be there with you as a matter of fact rather than some obscure ‘spirituality’. I will be right by your side.

One more reason to be an atheist. Check the full article on Science 2.0

People Clock

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Its 1:30...Ouch!

Flowchart: Should You Pay Attention to the Royal Wedding?

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Are there really 2 billion nihilists

Geordie Shore

This is UK's Jersey Shore...NOT ANOTHER SNOOKI!

Huwebes, Abril 28, 2011

199 Hero Great Battle Preview

I think I saw the old mechas

Kamen Rider The Diner

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Its expensive, but I want to check it out. The link above is the official website.

Seth Godin's Road Trip - Part 1

Seth Godin always manages to write good books, but he also has this speech online. The password to this video is on his blog, but I will tell you anyway. The password is iboughtthebook

You are missing out if you don't check this video Part 2,3 and 4 is on Vimeo with the same password

Elephant Phobia

Rush Playing Tom Sawyer on Rock Band

They attempted to play their own song on Rock Band and they failed

Mike Choi The Piano Man

Playing Nintendo game music to go to the university

Stick Balancing Act

He needs to do this live to prove it isn't fake.

Razy Gogonea Britains Got Talent 2011

Don't mess with a guy from the Matrix

Tongue Origami

Toothpick San Francisco

He definitely has a lot of free time

Borderlands Marriage Proposal

Nerd proposal almost always work.

3D Sound

Do we really need this?

It's so easy, even Kirk could do it.

At least George Takei is in the ad. He is a lot more active online lately.

How an Internet Troll looks like

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No wonder he is always angry.

Ultra-Superlaser Could Be Powerful Enough To Tear A Hole In The Vacuum Of Space

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If it can tear a hole in space just imagine what it could do to an ass!

Seen here (but not really because it doesn't exist yet) looking suspiciously like staring down the barrel of a Portal gun, a new ultra-superlaser capable of tearing the very fabric of space-time (and exposing its black hole) has been approved by the European Commission. This...sounds dangerous. It also sounds like I did a great job with the Portal/tearing of space-time connection. PUZZLE PIECES, BABY: I PUT THEM TOGETHER eat them.

At peak power, the fourth laser in Europe's Extreme Light Infrastructure project (or ELI) will combine ten beams into a single pulse measuring 200 petawatts. 200 petawatts is significantly more power that our entire race generates at any given moment, and in fact more total power than Earth receives from the sun.


The 200 petawatt pulses will only last 1.5 x 10^-14 second, which is about the same amount of time that it takes for light to travel from one side of a human hair to the other, if you shave the hair down by 90%.

The hope is that a laser this powerful might actually be able to tear apart the vacuum of space-time itself, revealing the matter and antimatter underneath.

There is an increasing number of mad scientists in Europe

Portals Are Real

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Who dares to enter?

Spike Lee takes Obama's photos using an iPad

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Spike Lee definitely has some guts

Vader Toilet

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Please don't tell me you're my father

Inappropriate Birthday Cards

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