Today started reasonably well. Woke up at 0630 and made first cup of coffee. A quick check online revealed no difficult emails and the good news that a Randinista had been banned for 24 hours for disruptive activity on the... Dave Snowden http://www.cognitive-edge.com

I found this list of beliefs pretty scary, and spotted at least three major contradictions (well three things that are contradictions with one claim), one significant disappointment and one piece of dangerous self- delusion.... Dave Snowden http://www.cognitive-edge.com

A rather delightful satire on the way in which the proponents of pseudo-science claim scientific objectivity. The context here by the way is the WIkipedia page on NLP.... Dave Snowden http://www.cognitive-edge.com

At our Christmas party in Singapore a few weeks ago, Angelina put together a slide set about the various events over the last year here in Cognitive Edge. We've now published a revised version of it as an annual report... Dave Snowden http://www.cognitive-edge.com

OK, a trivia question for you: how many people have been capped by Wales at both Rugby and Baseball? Just to help you out the first was Henry Vivian Pugh Huzzey born in 1876 and the most recent Mark Ring, first baseball cap in 1984. Dave Snowden http://www.cognitive-edge.com

This has been hanging around in my RSS feed with a must blog tag attached to it for several months now. It's Margaret Atwood talking about debt, not just in the context of financial crisis, but its whole relationship to... Dave Snowden http://www.cognitive-edge.com

Very very clever. Hat tip to Doc Searls... Dave Snowden http://www.cognitive-edge.com

Memory of Christmas excess having faded its time to use up the left-over turkey (I hate to freeze it). One of the best ways is Turkey Tetrazzini which will go into production later on this afternoon; the aim being to... Dave Snowden http://www.cognitive-edge.com

Radio 4 is one of the greatest institutions ever created by a Broadcasting Company. It has over the years created a stream of high quality documentaries, magazine programmes and entertainment that communicate to broad audiences without compromising intellectual integrity. It... Dave Snowden http://www.cognitive-edge.com

OK now this is scary. Hat tip to Sentient Developments.... Dave Snowden http://www.cognitive-edge.com

I got back from the Blues Boxing day defeat of the Dragons at around 1800 today. It was a good match with anexciting final ten minutes; the good guys won but it was cold, oh so cold. After checking... Dave Snowden http://www.cognitive-edge.com

I had been meaning to write on Spiral Dynamics for some time, but this does it much better. The reply is also revealing. Ha tip to Peter Stanbridge for finding another good blog for my RSS feed. Apologies by the... Dave Snowden http://www.cognitive-edge.com

For those who followed my earlier posts I am pleased to say that, at least for the moment, right did win out and Peter Damian is restored as an editor. Nice to see him back at work this morning removing... Dave Snowden http://www.cognitive-edge.com

I'm planning to be in DC 15-16th January to follow up on various contacts and some possible DARPA work. At the moment there will be some free slots, if interested email me.... Dave Snowden http://www.cognitive-edge.com

We are repeating a prior experiment and opening up the guest blog for anyone who wants to contribute. Details of how to do so in the header.... Dave Snowden http://www.cognitive-edge.com

I finally lost patience with another listserv. In this case value networks. Pity really, some good discussions from time to time but its no longer worth the effort. That leaves me with ACT which I will keep, otherwise social media... Dave Snowden http://www.cognitive-edge.com

I think I may need to rethink my online ordering of books etc. given this report... Dave Snowden http://www.cognitive-edge.com

Brian reminded me some time ago that today is the 40th Anniversary of the publication in Science of The Tragedy of the Commons . The article explains how a group of herders sharing a common grazing area can destroy it... Dave Snowden http://www.cognitive-edge.com

Our former guest blogger Ron Donaldson is being interviewed over on Kathy Hansen's blog. The latest instalment is here. The next stage after guru is either sage or grumpy old man so I plan to buy Ron a drink on... Dave Snowden http://www.cognitive-edge.com

Early this morning I was watching the History Channel while catching up on email, wikiwars etc. over the first coffee of the day. The series on 20th Century Battlefield was dealing with the Tet Offensive in 1968. Personally that was... Dave Snowden http://www.cognitive-edge.com