Information Contraband » Thought http://informationcontraband.com Tue, 17 Apr 2012 15:54:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Reality http://informationcontraband.com/thought/486 http://informationcontraband.com/thought/486#comments Fri, 10 Jun 2011 18:01:24 +0000 Andrew http://informationcontraband.com/?p=486 The Independent has a sort-of interesting article about PR firms altering Wikipedia entries. Does that surprise anyone?

Almost all of what we “know” in daily life is a consensus agreement between gatekeepers of one sort or another. I don’t necessarily have a problem with that. Much as I’d like to, I am not able to empirically verify all of the information I depend upon; I don’t have the math chops for physics or the memory for biology, so I rely on trusted sources to tell me the truth. If I doubt the information they’re giving me, I can dig in and research/test that information. Same with Wikipedia. Trust, but verify and don’t believe everything you think and be open to the possibility that your sources are wrong.

]]> http://informationcontraband.com/thought/486/feed 0 Retouching is the Right Thing to Do http://informationcontraband.com/art/photography/retouching-is-the-right-thing-to-do http://informationcontraband.com/art/photography/retouching-is-the-right-thing-to-do#comments Sun, 14 Jun 2009 20:32:43 +0000 Andrew http://informationcontraband.com/?p=421 Interesting take on the ethics of retouching.

]]> http://informationcontraband.com/art/photography/retouching-is-the-right-thing-to-do/feed 0 Blogs are Yucky http://informationcontraband.com/miscellaneous/blogs-are-yucky http://informationcontraband.com/miscellaneous/blogs-are-yucky#comments Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:24:17 +0000 Andrew http://informationcontraband.com/?p=280 “I hate blogs. I even hate the word blog. It’s ugly in print and it’s ugly rolling off the tongue. And, as a class, the content in them is just as bad. Simplistic, repetitive, puerile, self-indulgent twaddle that nine times out of 10 I’m almost embarrassed to look at (and I avoid looking as much as possible). A serious waste of bandwidth and a club with which I do not wish to be associated, thank you very much.”  —Ctein in the comments at theonlinephotographer.com

]]> http://informationcontraband.com/miscellaneous/blogs-are-yucky/feed 0 Roger Ebert Finally Reviews “Expelled” http://informationcontraband.com/science/roger-ebert-finally-reviews-expelled http://informationcontraband.com/science/roger-ebert-finally-reviews-expelled#comments Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:51:47 +0000 Andrew http://informationcontraband.com/?p=164 and it’s the best-written review I’ve read all year.

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