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One of my favorite techie sites, Lifehacker, made a short video showing how to update your Facebook notification settings. Use these settings to limit the torrent of email you receive from your Facebook friends. Link to video.

Facebook, “…lavishes you with attention from the people that you love the more you disclose about your life,” says Cory Doctorow in a Ted talk.The disconnect between disclosure and negative consequences (in time or because you never find out) frustrates … Read more →

Yes, psychologists can make fun of ourselves. This video is a hilarious take on a undergraduate student explaining why she wants to pursue a Ph.D in clinical psychology. Some of the satire is so right on that it hurt to … Read more →

Tell a three-year-old child that a prize is under the red cup, when he saw you put it under the yellow cup, and he will believe you and look under the red cup. Researchers from University of Virginia in Charlottesville … Read more →

Facebook is giving users the options to connect to its servers using HTTPS (the S stands for secure). This is a new feature, you must change your account settings for this to work; Facebook is not making it automatic. Also … Read more →

Facebook launched a new feature called Groups. On its face, it offers a way to limit who you share information with. In an interview posted on Cnet, Mark Zukerberg said, There are a lot of things you want to share … Read more →

An NPR story takes a tender look through the eyes of Lisa Daxter, an adult with autism. Lisa, taking a role much like an anthropologist from Mars, points out just how social we “neurotypicals” are. We clump together into social … Read more →

I’ve been back for a week. It was a wonderful time away, and just long enough. Several times during the last two days, I caught myself longing to get back to work; I started to thing about clients and what … Read more →