Comments on: Chris Shipley 1, Internet lynch mob 0

Demo's impresario goes public with a tart and smartly written riposte to the shoot-from-the-lip crowd.

[perivision]

Sad isn't it? It seems like the 'luminaries' of the blogging world are turning into the same thing we call pundits on network news, at least in this case.
I can also vouch for Chris. I interacted with her briefly during my NASA days and 'straight shooter' is an apt description. Not sure about the 'mensch' bit though.

[jokeefe--2008]

Awesome post, Coop! Like you, I'm disgusted by the approach of shoot first ask questions (maybe) later approach that's taken over the blog-o-sphere.

[etorres44]

I have an issue with Dell and the new 910 model and the ad on ordering website show this chipset model: Intel® 945PM / GM Express Chipset. Yet in the manual list the chipset is this Intel® 945GSE Express Chipset, this is a different type than in the ad? I checked on the Intel wedsite and two different model with different specifications. I went to the customer service and all they gave me was oops. This is fraud is someone exposes the and no change has been made, can you alert them maybe you carry more weight than I.

[Len Bullard]

They are similar because they have the same brain wiring as a result of participating in the same events.

See Donald Hebb and the dual trace mechanism, then try to understand what happens when new media emerge that create a sense of simultaneity or participation across statistical populations. The zeitgeist or lemming behavior is real. Not only will they exhibit similar behaviors, they physically can't avoid doing so.

You live in the echo chamber and it rewires you brain to want to stay there. See also, endorphin addiction.

Some people become self-aware of their power to control their own re-wiring and through practice become good at it. See zazen and any number of other self-improvement systems. They all start with the 'emptying' ceremony that takes away the correspondences of inner maps to outer maps so one can de-link, than re-link.

After the elections, watch for an increase in drug use and other forms of addiction transfer.