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I’ve just started reading the new book by Al Gore, called “The Assault on Reason”. It’s premise is basically that the way we, as humans, communicate and exchange ideas has ben so badly warped by ‘one sided’ media such as television, that as a culture we are failing ourselves. Yes, there are some politics in [...]

I just finished (yeah, 2am) a book by Joe Hill (who, by the way, is Stephens Kings son) called ‘Heart Shaped Box’. It’s about an aging rockstat who has led a life of lesire,d ecadence and lust.

A few months ago, one of the Directors at work and I were having a discussion about this book, Blink. The premise is that we (as humans) make decisions within seconds, and sometimes microseconds, that are scarily accurate. We then tend to do one of two things: *Ignore that ‘thin-slice’ (as the author calls it) [...]