Jasp’s Blog

From the Moral Foundations test:
Harm: 3.5
Fairness: 4.1
Loyalty: 1.1
Authority: 0.6
Purity: 0.3
http://www.yourmorals.org/
Its a bit odd as my ideals are completely at odds with my personality. The figures here would suggest that I was a hedonistic and rebellious person, when I am nothing of the sort. (As anyone who knows me well would attest, although I’m fully expecting [...]

I’ve always been attracted by MOO, the flickr buisness card company, but have never had the need for buisness cards. While they are designed for personal use, I would feel slightly self concious handing out a mini-card, even if they are as sexy as the ones MOO make. I’m sure I could find some other [...]

FT.com / World / Europe - Germany to crack down on violent video games
Virtual hit men in Europe’s largest video games market could soon find themselves behind real bars if German regional politicians have their way.
Under new legislation drawn up in reaction to a shooting at a school last month, developers, retailers and players [...]

This paragrahps, taken from the wikipedia entry on ‘evil genius’ sums up why I love the site:
The evil genius is different from the mad scientist, in that the mad scientist tends to be amoral, rather than evil. An Evil Genius is generally a clever schemer, while the Mad Scientist typically pursues scientific knowledge with no [...]

Win a Flat
I’m currently having to think about where I’ll be living next year as my lease runs out soon and the plan is to move off elsewhere. So earlier this evening I was searching around and getting a feel for what was availible. A few sites seem ideal and I shall probably be putting [...]

To put it simply I want one of these. I’ve wanted an eBook reader for a while, as I get terrible guilt trips every time I print off the twenty odd pages associated with a PDF file. (Research papers are distributed in PDF format.) Unfortunately, Sony’s prior effort, the Libre, was so wrapped up in [...]

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To those of you who know not of Sir Tim Berners-Lee then I can truthfully say that without him you wouldn’t be reading this at the moment, this blog wouldn’t be here, Amazon wouldn’t be here, you wouldn’t have just sold that old teapot on eBay and Sony BGM would not have angered the geek [...]

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ZURICH, SWITZERLAND—Nearly 700 scientists representing 27 countries convened at the University of Zurich Monday to formally announce that their experimentation on mice has been motivated not by a desire to advance human knowledge, but out of sheer distaste for the furry little rodents.
Why do I have the feeling that at some time this [...]

Oh dear. I have been rather bad atn updating haven’t I; and it looked so good. Still the weekend is comming up, perhapse I’ll be able to fill people in then. Perhapse.
Anyway, recomended link here, www.thatwasme.net
The site has only just started but I’m not aware of any analogous websites and this one looks promising. I [...]