TV Addiction

A recommended article on TV Addiciton.

I myself am hooked since I was 6 years old and reading about this just helped me realize just how much TV messes up my daily life. :| The worst part is that I don't know how much of this addiction might have migrated to my computer usage patterns.

Any ideas on ways to get clean (while still using the pc for work on a daily basis :\)?

Why do some societies make disastrous decisions?

Jared Diamond has written a great article raising the question referred on the title.

The short list of reasons elicited:

• failure to anticipate a problem;
• failure to perceive it once it has arisen;
• failure to attempt to solve it after it has been perceived;
• failure to succeed in attempts to solve it.

You can read the full article here.