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This may technically be considered a promotional video, but it is a great one.

“I guess kicking my seat is a necessary part of his ongoing development and it will derail his journey to self-actualization if you enforce any rules of behavior or impose any limitations on him because you don’t want him to have to experience disappointment as if there is a more important skill in life than learning to cope with disappointment.”

18 August 2009 • kid monkey psychology

26 June 2009 • chicken psychology

Nerd Law is some policy that can only be enforced by a piece of code, a public standard, or terms of service. For example, under no circumstances will a police officer throw you to the ground and introduce you to his friend the Tazer if you crawl a website and disrespect the robots.txt file. The only way to adjudicate Nerd Law is to write about a transgression on your blog and hope that it gets to the front page of Digg. Nerd Law is the result of the pathological introversion software engineers carry around with them, being too afraid of confrontation after that one time in high school when you stood up to a jock and ended up getting your ass kicked.

— Firefox passive-aggressives adjudicate Nerd Law • The Register

11 May 2009 • internet law psychology