From a neat blog posting summarizing some research on sex and intelligence:
By the age of 19, 80% of US males and 75% of women have lost their virginity, and 87% of college students have had sex. But this number appears to be much lower at elite (i.e. more intelligent) colleges. According to the article, only [...]
What would you get if some neocons decided to create comic books to tell the truth about the liberal menace? You’d get something like this:
Extract from Liberality For All.
I’d like to think that the authors are actually writing it as a sophisticated parody of the right wing mindset, taking the lunacy heard on Fox News [...]
Microsoft’s Xbox division has announced their results for Fiscal Year 2006. Highlights:
Total loss of $1.2 billion.
Operating losses up 183%.
Revenues down 10% YTY in Q4 because of “decreased Xbox 360 console sales”; specifically…
Sales dropped from 1.8 million units per quarter to just 700,000 units per quarter, YTY.
Revenue from sales of games down 28%.
This is awesome news, [...]
An amazing article from the Chicago Reader describes a recent incident in which an out-of-uniform police officer who was late arriving to work, shot an unarmed man in the head at point blank range, in full view of security cameras.
The officer lied and said that at the time of the shooting he was surrounded by [...]
Guy Kawasaki has summarized a bunch of things he thinks everyone should learn about the world of work. One of them leaped out at me:
Whether [you are] young or old, the point is that the optimal length of an email message is five sentences. All you should do is explain who you are, what you [...]
Quote:
According to IRNA, the official Islamic Republic news agency, the national Police chief has implicitly verified the news about the confiscation of a number of squirrels, equipped with eavesdropping devices, on the Iranian borders. He has declined to give any more details, but, reportedly, when asked about the confiscation of 14 spy squirrels, he stated, [...]
Psychology Today has an article listing and explaining 10 scientific truths about human nature that people just don’t want to admit.
Like the fact that most suicide bombers are Muslim, and that humans are naturally polygamous. Or that behavior many women interpret as “hostile” or “harrassing” is actually men treating women as equals.
After hearing me mention that we considered a Subaru Outback as plan B if we couldn’t get a Prius, a Subaru dealer tries to sell me a new car. I don’t seem to be buying it, so he takes me to a special Subaru dealership hidden away in the countryside.
The area is surrounded by trees [...]
As the reality distortion field begins to fade, people are starting to wake up to the iPhone’s shortcomings. I’ve been assembling a list of issues I’ve seen mentioned:
No SDK.
No Flash.
No Java.
No Bluetooth file transfer.
No DIY MP3 or AAC ringtones.
Although the camera takes 2 megapixel photos, the only way to get them out is to e-mail [...]
Unearthed via Google Groups: me ranting about phone design and pondering the development of a Mac phone with easy to understand graphical push-buttons. In 1991.
But no, no iPhone for me until it’s opened up and the price is dropped. If I wanted to blow $600 on a piece of overhyped locked-down electronics, I’d get a [...]