Can We Predict The Outcome of The Presidential Election With Each Candidate’s Traffic Data? (14)
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Can traffic to a Presidential Candidate’s homepage be used to gauge who will win this year’s election? Hitwise has published recent data on the traffic both American presidential candidates have seen in the last month (ending 8/23), and while the results may not shed much light on the forthcoming election’s outcome, they reveal a few interesting trends. Hitwise has ranked each state by two criteria: its contribution to each site’s total traffic, and the the ...
Bag Lady Has Strop (4)
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This just forwarded to the inbox:"I was one of the lucky BA passengers who got to fly home with the Olympians - an incredible honour. We were thrown off first and after we walked down the steps and past the paparazzi I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw the Prime Minister standing in the doorway shaking hands with my fellow normal pasengers. I walked up to him and shook his hand and asked where ...
Which body parts are sung about the most? (24)
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The eyes. Other results vary across genre, for instance gospel and blues sing more about hands than eyes. And get this:As for the genre that talks about body parts the most, hip hop takes the honors with more references than any other genre. Meanwhile, gospel refers to the body the least. There are plenty of other data points to peruse. It's nice to know that 23.64 percent of hip hop songs refer to the behind, ...
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Eater said:
I've always liked rap music.
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Aaron said:
Interesting visualization of music subject matter.
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Maarek Stele said:
just another odd set of facts. I love the internet!
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Goyal said:
See - Now you know why Hip Hop kicks ass!
Slashdot | The Internet's Biggest Security Hole Revealed (35)
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At DEFCON, Tony Kapela and Alex Pilosov demonstrated a drastic weakness in the Internet's infrastructure that had long been rumored, but wasn't believed practical. They showed how to hijack BGP (the border gateway protocol) in order to eavesdrop on Net traffic in a way that wouldn't be simple to detect. Quoting: "'It's at least as big an issue as the DNS issue, if not bigger,' said Peiter 'Mudge' Zatko, noted computer security expert and former ...
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Eater said:
Far and away the best preso at the con.Mudge wah.
The best two paragraphs I read today (13)
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Ezra wins:...the campaign against Obama has metastasized into a variant of class warfare. It's the resentment of the meritocracy. What the GOP realized was that Obama did come across different than the average American, but not so much because he was black as because he was effortless. The very set of supercharged talents and qualities that allowed Obama to levitate past the boundaries of race and class make him different than those who haven't rocketed ...
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Abhishek said:
i like!
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Angus said:
economic elite, because social elites are arrogant
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Tom said:
i shared a post about politics
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Geoff said:
"This election, in other words, is becoming a contest to decide which type of elite voters hate -- or fear, or mistrust -- more: A social elite or an economic elite?"
Scientists Discover Cows Point North (32)
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Dr Sabine Begall and colleagues from the University of Duisburg-Essen have discovered that cows tend to point north. The researchers studied deer in the Czech Republic and looked at thousands of images of cattle on Google Earth. The animals tended to face north when eating or resting. "We conclude that the magnetic field is the only common and most likely factor responsible for the observed alignment," the scientists wrote in an article. I guess cows ...
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focoma said:
Holy Cow! O_o
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Vidar Larsen said:
Lost your compass? Have a cow...
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Rob said:
mmmm, compass medium rare.
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Wolfger said:
Mmm... edible compass...
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Steve said:
Cowth by cowthwest.
Republican boasts about 'Ministry of Truth' (4)
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REPUBLICAN BOASTS ABOUT 'MINISTRY OF TRUTH'.... Last year, in an unusual display of ignorance, Fox News' Sean Hannity announced that he would begin offering "Enemy of the State" awards to liberals he disapproves of. Hannity, never accused of being the sharpest crayon in the box, had no idea that the phrase has Stalinist origins, and quietly renamed his on-air segment, "Enemy of the Week." At the time, one of Andrew Sullivan's readers noted: "It makes ...
Why China Saves So Much Money (9)
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Great post by John Hempton on the real roots of China's penchant for savings: Its one-child policy. In most poor jurisdictions there is a simple method of saving for old age. Have six kids. They will have a few each and if you survive there will be lots of grandkids trained to respect their elders who will look after you. This does not work in China. Indeed if everyone has only one child there will ...
The Benefits Of Piracy Aren't Always In The Expected Places (6)
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One of the issues that comes up when we discuss the economics of infinite goods is people too often falsely define the product that's being sold as the market, rather than the benefit. As we mentioned the other day, that's why the builders of horse carriages reacted the wrong way to the automobile. If they had realized they were in the transportation business, the automobile would have been as an opportunity to provide a better ...
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Brandon said:
Bottom Line: Going online is about the same as stepping out in to the public arena. It is the conduct of us all that will bring privacy to us. If you do not give out personal information in public, then you should not do so online. If you have to use a different name online. Who will know the difference?
What about Cheney's feelings? (1)
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WHAT ABOUT CHENEY'S FEELINGS?.... For a while, it seemed as if Dick Cheney wouldn't be welcome at the Republican National Convention at all. As recently as Aug. 5, CNN quoted a Republican official saying that McCain's campaign and the vice president's office had reached a "mutual understanding," and that Cheney, given his strikingly low approval ratings, was "unlikely" to appear in St. Paul. Realizing that it might look ridiculous to snub a sitting vice president ...
Markets in Everything: Panhandling (7)
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In Memphis, a local FOX News reporter, Jason Carter, donned old clothes and hit the streets earlier this year, earning about $10 an hour. “Just the quasi-appearance of being homeless filled my cup,” Carter observed. That all the money is beyond the tax man’s clutches adds to the allure of professional panhandling. Carter prepared for his stint on the street by surfing the Internet, where a variety of websites dispense panhandling advice. NeedCom, for example—subtitled ...
If You Had The 'Secret' To Winning The Lottery, Would You Patent It? (6)
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Okay, so this story is bizarre enough by itself, but there's an odd twist at the end. A husband and wife who held four separate winning lottery tickets claims to have figured out a secret formula for winning the lottery. That seems highly unlikely, of course. There is no formula that can predict totally independent numbers. The four winning tickets all used the same numbers, so there's no proof that the couple did anything other ...
McCain tries the 'Chicken Prank' (1)
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MCCAIN TRIES THE 'CHICKEN PRANK'.... For the second time in two days, the McCain campaign has unveiled a television ad intended to drive a wedge between Hillary Clinton's supporters and the candidate Hillary Clinton endorses and agrees with. In the new one, which the media is no doubt going to love, we see a former Clinton delegate from Wisconsin, touting her support for John McCain, and encouraging her other Democrats to follow her. Now, I ...
An amazing economics experiment and how it got field workers to pick a lot more fruit. (1)
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For many business owners, getting the most out of staff is a perennial problem. In the case of fruit farmers, perhaps perennial is the wrong word: Workers show up for the summer harvest only. In a couple of weeks, the pickers here in Great Britain will be heading home, usually to a university somewhere in Eastern Europe.[more ...]
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Beglen said:
a fantastic demonstration of economic incentives driving behaviour. And one translated in to plain simple language. If only I had more than two staff report to me, I could make use of it!
Rosetta Disk Designed For 2,000 Years Archive (19)
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Hugh Pickens writes "Kevin Kelly has an interesting post about an archive designed with an estimated lifespan of 2,000 -10,000 years to serve future generations as a modern Rosetta Stone. The Rosetta disk contains analog 'human-readable' scans of scripts, text, and diagrams using nickel deposited on an etched silicon disk and includes 15,000 microetched pages of language documentation in 1,500 different languages, including versions of Genesis 1-3, a universal list of the words common for ...
