drego: the unrequited narcissist

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Fri, 20 Jan 2012 20:34:41 -0800

Internet Blackout Day’s effect on SOPA/PIPA congressional...

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 20:21:00 -0800

Internet Blackout Day’s effect on SOPA/PIPA congressional support

Rep. Lamar Smith, the chief sponsor of the ‘Stop Online Piracy Act’ (SOPA), dismissed the opposition to SOPA as illegitimate and of minor importance. Oh really?! —drego

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Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:03:00 -0800

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Tue, 17 Jan 2012 11:25:00 -0800

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Most depressing day of the year: Third Monday of January

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 17:25:00 -0800

Most depressing day of the year: Third Monday of January:

“Not sure if this research passes the peer-review process. British psychologist Cliff Arnall claims that, according to a complicated equation he devised in 2005, the third Monday in January is the most depressing day of the year. He calls it Blue Monday. We’re so blue, Arnall says, because of the weather, the Christmas holidays being over, and already-failed New Year’s resolutions, among other things he takes into account. But Arnall’s formula was created as part of a publicity campaign for Sky Travel, a British TV channel that shut down in 2010. “The fact is that Cliff Arnall’s equations are stupid, and some fail even to make mathematical sense on their own terms,” psychiatrist Ben Goldacre wrote in his “Bad Science” column in The Guardian, and other scientists have dismissed the formula.” Read more…

(source: NY Daily News, via The Daily Beast)

Oh boy oh boy oh boy! (source: Android Central)

Sat, 14 Jan 2012 13:39:06 -0800

Oh boy oh boy oh boy!

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[CES 2012] The most impressive non-Android product of the week:...

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:45:53 -0800

[CES 2012] The most impressive non-Android product of the week: Samsung’s transparent smart window

Prayer in public schools an essential right – except for Muslims

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:41:00 -0800

Prayer in public schools an essential right – except for Muslims:

“Apparently it’s ultra-super important for Christian kids to be able to pray at school but not so much for Muslim kids.” Read more…

(source: PoliticsUSA)

Top 10 creepiest rooms in the new Scientology Super Power Building

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:34:00 -0800

Top 10 creepiest rooms in the new Scientology Super Power Building:

“The Village Voice has obtained artist renderings of a new Scientology Super Power Building being built in Clearwater, Florida. Here are pictures of 10 of the weirdest rooms/machines there.” Read more…

(source: The Village Voice, via BuzzFeed)

Mathematician claims breakthrough in Sudoku puzzle

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:17:47 -0800

Mathematician claims breakthrough in Sudoku puzzle:

A sudoku puzzle needs at least 17 clues to be solvable.

“An Irish mathematician has used a complex algorithm and millions of hours of supercomputing time to solve an important open problem in the mathematics of Sudoku, the game popularized in Japan that involves filling in a 9X9 grid of squares with the numbers 1–9 according to certain rules. Gary McGuire of University College Dublin shows in a proof posted online that the minimum number of clues — or starting digits — needed to complete a puzzle is 17; puzzles with 16 or fewer clues do not have a unique solution. Most newspaper puzzles have around 25 clues, with the difficulty of the puzzle decreasing as more clues are given.” Read more…

(source: Gary McGuire et al., via Nature)

Being left-handed puts your health (and paycheck) at risk

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:10:00 -0800

Being left-handed puts your health (and paycheck) at risk:

“Surprisingly, some studies have suggested that only 10% of the world’s population is left-handed, and an even smaller percentage, 1%, is ambidextrous. But, all you creative left-handed rarities beware, seems that being a south paw isn’t good for you.” Read more…

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The Pope has chosen Android

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:05:53 -0800

The Pope has chosen Android:

“God Almighty himself, through his appointed papal mouthpiece, has picked a winner. For this year’s celebration of Christ’s birth, Pope Benedict will remotely light a giant Christmas tree display attached to the side of a mountain, from 130 miles away…. But! Scandal! He’s doing it with the Lord’s fave new gadget, [a Sony Android tablet]!” Read more…

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Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:05:06 -0800

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Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:58:00 -0800

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Grammar matters! (via uberhumor)

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:55:48 -0800

Grammar matters!

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Having a narcissist for the holidays?

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:53:33 -0800

Having a narcissist for the holidays?:

“Your resident narcissist — that excessively self-centered, self-important admiration hog — is ready to fill your holiday stocking with complication, drama and disappointment. Yes, just like last year. My definition of a narcissist is someone who possesses excessive amounts of self-centeredness and an inflated sense of importance. When a narcissist is a part of an event, other guests may try to ignore him, or overlook or justify his behaviors. It is often challenging to figure out whether or not a person is a narcissist, because these people are highly skilled in protecting themselves to the point that it may be difficult to truly get to know them (as they most often don’t even know themselves).” Read more…

(source: USA Today)

On the destructive nature of narcissist CEOs

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:43:01 -0800

On the destructive nature of narcissist CEOs:

From a recent study in Administrative Science Quarterly:

“Highly narcissistic CEOs are much less responsive to recent objective measures of their performance than less narcissistic CEOs. They found the narcissists would continue to make lots of acquisitions at high premiums, even when their company hadn’t been doing well…”

“Most interesting though, they found that highly narcissistic CEOs were very responsive to social praise (measured as media praise and media awards) and this would spur them on to increase their pace of acquisitions and premiums paid (which, over time, tended to destroy shareholder value). Less narcissistic CEOs were much less responsive to social praise.”

The possibility of alien life is now (almost) impossible to deny

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:32:00 -0800

The possibility of alien life is now (almost) impossible to deny:

“An international team of astronomers have reached the most definitive conclusion, one with profound implications: our galaxy contains a minimum of 100 billion planets. Of those, most are small planets like ours. Statistically, every star would have at least one planet. This means that the chances of life and habitable planets in our galaxy alone is overwhelmingly high. So high that it’s impossible to deny that it’s out there. The only question is how much of that is little dumb critters and how much is civilized.” Read More…

(source: Gizmodo)

Microsoft files patent on monitoring employee work habits

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:27:36 -0800

Microsoft files patent on monitoring employee work habits:

“Question: would you work at a job that uses software to automatically track your work habits based on e-mails, phone calls and even video conferences? Someone at Microsoft thinks that’s a good enough idea to deserve a patent. The Microsoft patent filing — discovered by GeekWire— covers a computer system capable of not only monitoring the behavior of employees, but also assigning positive or negative scores to each action. Examples given include flagging someone who repeatedly cuts off colleagues during conversations, or raising the alarm over a supervisor who repeatedly bugs underlings during their lunch break.” Read more…

(source: GeekWire, via Live Science)