http://www.anderselfving.com Argumentum ad ignorantiam is a blog about anything worth interest en The Swedish public service network recently broadcasted the BBC show "Battle of the Brains". To summarize the show, it's about ten people who have become very successful in largely varying areas. These people take different tests which are later compared and analyzed... 2007-08-23 15:50:22 /p8/intelligence-and-creativity-battle-of-the-brains.html I quickly mentioned in a previous post, that webmasters from all over the world made a George W Bush site rank at #1 for the phrase "miserable failure" and later, also for "miserable" and "failure". This was done by linking the Bush site with that particular anchor text (link text)... 2007-01-31 13:12:47 /p7/googles-political-bias.html Google came as a revolution to information search, they taught us that information from 8 billion pages could be scanned in a millisecond, and showed us that information was free for all. However, Google also became the first Search Engine to clearly give preferential treatment to authority sites, mostly universities and American government pages... 2007-01-30 16:34:02 /p6/the-google-ups-and-the-google-downs.html Athletes might say that 1 is the best number, I am however a sucker for larger ones. And if something has large numbers, it's the ATLAS project over at CERN. The database is planned to store a staggering 30,000,000 Gigabytes (100 Megabytes per second) during the first 10 years, which really sets all my storage problems into perspective... 2006-10-26 15:45:27 /p5/atlas.html I just recently came across a very interesting video about freedom of choice, by Professor Barry Schwartz. The main point by Schwartz is how freedom of choice leads to anxiety, does the freedom exceed a certain point of options. Schwartz brilliantly describes the phenomena, and shortly mentions a few cases where this fact has been implemented into business strategies... 2006-10-25 13:57:50 /p4/complexity-of-choice.html I can’t claim to have been the first, but I’m probably not the last either! To create some dialog surrounding some subjects I find interesting, I am today opening a small blog. The name of the blog is "Argumentum ad ignorantiam" which, according to uncertain sources, means something in the line of “Arguments from ignorance”, which if found very suitable, and perhaps not as worn out as ”Carpe diem” ;) 2006-10-25 15:51:37 /p1/blog.html