Thursday, April 29, 2010
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Hitler "Downfall" Parodies Removed from YouTube
The movie studio responsible for the award-winning, German-Austrian film Downfall (German: Der Untergang) has asked YouTube to take down several videos from the massively popular subtitled “Hitler finds out…” meme, and the site has complied.
via mashable.com
how will leaks ever be funny again?! :(:(
Promiscuous women cause quakes - Middle East - World - The Times of India (via @swetavb)
Many women who do not dress modestly ... lead young men astray, corrupt their chastity and spread adultery in society, which (consequently) increases earthquakes," Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi was quoted as saying by Iranian media.
Iran, you keep taking reasons to defend yourself away from me :(
Sunday, April 18, 2010
Alex Rojas about students in Qatar
Alex: I assumed that you guys knew something about the stock market.
Context: A student in regression class commenting on a quiz that it wasn't obvious that the stock market is closed on the weekends
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Context: A student in regression class commenting on a quiz that it wasn't obvious that the stock market is closed on the weekends
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Pornographic magazine for the blind launched - Telegraph
A pornographic magazine for the blind has been launched - complete with explicit text and raised pictures of naked men and women.
via telegraph.co.uk
Wish Mr. Braille himself was alive to see this :D
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
WikiLeaks
via wikileaks.org
Like almost a million other people, I really wanted to see what Wikileaks had in store this time. Proclaimed to be one of the biggest leaks of the "War on Terror", I wanted to find out if there would be something that was surprising to the masses, especially the Iraqis.
Boy, was I surprised?
Sunday, April 4, 2010
Why We Make Mistakes
Mistake --n. 1: a misunderstanding of the meaning or implication of something; 2: a wrong action or statement proceeding from faulty judgement, inadequate knowledge or inattention. syn: see error.*
My current read, Why We Make Mistakes by Joseph Hallinan has gotten off to an awesome start.I remember buying this book at Barnes and Noble near campus(yes, the PIT campus, Duh!) last year and was one of the books I did not bother to open or read the back cover, just because the tagline was so awesome.
How we look without seeing, forget things in seconds, and are all pretty sure we are way above average.
That line was enough for me to add the orange covered beauty into my to-read list. Here are some excerpts from the book:
And most of us, whether left- or right- handed, show an inordinate preference for the number 7 and the color blue.
Stating the obvious here, are we? I've always kinda known this, but never have actually seen this written down anywhere.
We are also swayed by our initial impressions of things that we are reluctant to change out first answer on a test; yet many studies have shown we would be better off if we did exactly this.
Here we go again with probabilities. Anyone remember Monty Hall? That's what the claim is...but again...its probabilities! I don't see the point the probabilities. They never practically help anyone!
It turns out to be very difficult, for instance, to unlearn or ignore bad information -- even when we know it is wrong or should be ignored.
Want to end with this one, especially since we've all always known this but end up going against reason and logic. I am a self-proclaimed rationalist (although a bunch of people would disagree with me on that) and am guilty to the previous sentence, just like most other people are, including House, the most rational of them all.
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