Let’s start off with a comment from Amy Gahran regarding last week’s podcast on apophenia. For those of you reading this post. Sorry you get the bulleted summary:

• Apohenia is a cool word
  
• There is an IT Conversations interview with William Gibson.
  
• William Gibson’s recent book Pattern Recognizer deals with apophenia and pattern recognition (obviously)
  
• If you want to experience apophenia check out Amy’s recommended reading- “Foucault’s Pendulum” by Umberto Ecco.

Be sure to check out Amy’s blog and subscribe to her podcast at blog.contentious.com

So today’s word is contentious. It is an adjective that describes someone or something that is likely to cause an argument. Often a tired or pointless argument. Reading through Amy’s blog and listening to her podcasts I don’t think Amy’s arguments are tired or pointless.

Be sure to check out here site at blog.contentious.com or at wordgeek.com