Chindogu. The next internet meme?

Something tells me there are going to be a lot more stories in the near future on Boing Boing and sites like that on Chindogu. It's just ripe for it.

http://www.boingboing.net/2006/05/04/chindogu_anarchic_wh.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chindogu

Mounting Frustrations With Windows.

For a while there, the more time I spent working with Linux, the more I liked Linux. I may be reaching a point of diminishing returns on that token, but I can safely say that the more time I spend in Windows, the less I like it now.  It  has gotten to the point where I really could give a fuck less about the lack of gaming in Linux because aside from that, Windows has just kind of died for me. It's not as nice to look at, not as nice to use, and not as fun as an operating system. It feels like a chore to do anything in Windows, not to say that it's difficult. Just...boring.

I've been telling people for months that bees are smart as hell.

First we learn that they can recognize human faces, now this.

Bees

The Hidden Profile Effect: I learned something important about group decisions today in school.

Read this if you've ever had to do a group project in school or at work. It might be enlightening. This is all about a concept called the hidden profile. Let's say you are in a group with just one other person. Two of you. You have a decision to make; you want to figure out whether or not you should incorporate idea X into your project. Logically, you come up with all of the benefits of choosing A, and all of the drawbacks of doing it. Imagine your partner is doing the same thing.  As it turns out, you come up with 4 reasons for thinking that A is going to work in the project, and only 3 reasons why it might not work.. We will label your "pluses" as X1, X2, X3, and X4.  Your "minuses" will be Y1, Y2, and Y3.  Your partner has also finished doing their brainstorming, and has come up with a slightly different set of positive consequences for using this idea in the project. His "pluses" are X1, X2, X3, and X5. His "minuses" are entirely different from yours: Y4, Y5, and Y6.

When you converge to discuss the topic at hand, you're likely to only discuss the point of view that you like more (in this case, the positive). Same thing with your partner. You'll go through your list of ideas, and when you get to X4 your partner will say "oh yeah, I never thought of that!" In turn, you will learn from his X5.  In total, you will have 5 positive reasons for going with the idea. The tragedy here, is that between the two of you, there were 6 unique reasons NOT to do the idea, but you never discuss them. 

Why does this happen? Maybe it's because we instinctually want to be right, and so we just "jettison" all of the ideas that we have come up with that support our point of view, A.  We don't even give the lesser, "inferior" in our mind point of view a second chance. And we really should. I think a way to remedy this would be to try to discuss both sides of an idea even if you only support one of them.  It might make group projects better. Lord knows that most of us need to communicate better in tasked group settings...

I learned about this today in my interpersonal communication theory class with Dr. Charles Pavitt, a communications professor at the University of Delaware. You can read more about this at his page on Social Influence here (search for hidden profile effect).

One casting director said to me, “The studios will only make comedies, and those with only four people, two of whom were in Wedding Crashers!”

We Lost It at the Movies -- New York Magazine

Stephen Colbert airs out the Bush Administration at the White House Correspondents Dinner.

http://www.vsocial.com/video/?d=26416

A Link to Today's hilarious Jerkcity comic strip

http://www.jerkcity.com/jerkcity2740.html

Fighting Crime

(10:44:41 PM) Noah: I saw a shirt that made me vomit all over myself on friday
(10:44:45 PM) Useff: really
(10:44:47 PM) Noah: it said "You looked better on facebook"
(10:44:51 PM) Noah: the guy looked so proud
(10:44:55 PM) Useff: LOL
(10:45:00 PM) Noah: he was disgusted when I vomited, but for some reason, I couldn't stop laughing
(10:45:24 PM) Useff: AHAHAHAHA
(10:47:42 PM) Useff: seven
(10:47:52 PM) Noah: seven deadly sins
(10:48:03 PM) Useff: you can expect five more of these
(10:48:31 PM) Noah: Detective Alex Cross just doesn't give a fuck
(10:48:34 PM) Noah: He just wants to retire, man
(10:50:11 PM) Useff: I just rummaged around in your room with sleeping Dad for the movie
(10:50:27 PM) Noah: did he mumble constantly battering your asshole
(10:50:52 PM) Useff: no but I think I woke him up for a sec
(10:53:45 PM) Useff: "Coroner said this could have gone on for more than twelve hours."
(10:54:09 PM) Useff: "You don't take the time to do this -- unless the act itself has meaning."
(10:54:31 PM) Noah: Are you hungry?
(10:54:44 PM) Useff: I will be
(10:55:03 PM) Useff: "This can't be my last duty. It's gonna go on and on and on."
(10:55:21 PM) Noah: Of all places to be transferred...why here
(10:55:24 PM) Useff: yeah
(10:55:32 PM) Useff: "This should not be his first assignment. It's too soon for him."
(10:55:36 PM) Useff: They had no idea
(10:55:54 PM) Noah: do you want to go out to get something to eat with me?
(10:56:00 PM) Useff: yeah, let me take a shower dunn
(10:56:05 PM) Noah: I'm thinking ihop in new castle
(10:56:13 PM) Useff: That's a drive, but ok
(10:56:13 PM) Noah: I should shower too
(10:56:26 PM) Noah: yeah the reason I want to go is that it's a drive
(10:56:31 PM) Noah: plus there might be black girls to holla at
(10:56:33 PM) Useff: "Gluttony, greed (fingers) sloth, wrath, pride, lust"
(10:56:38 PM) Useff: "and envy. Seven."
(10:56:45 PM) Useff: "You can expect five more of these"
(10:57:00 PM) Useff: Yeah, let me take shower
(10:57:12 PM) Noah: I'm gonna shower and get ready for the day lol
(10:57:16 PM) Useff: HAHAHA
(10:57:36 PM) Useff: Keondra needs dick lol
(10:57:52 PM) Useff: getting in the shower
(10:57:57 PM) Noah: Dude I was obviously
(10:58:02 PM) Noah: talking about light skin girls
(10:58:05 PM) Useff: HAHAHAHA
(10:58:05 PM) Noah: what do you think I am,?
(10:58:10 PM) Useff: I HAVE STANDARDS
(10:58:12 PM) Noah: DUH
(10:58:35 PM) Noah: if the hair ain't good, I get no wood
(10:58:41 PM) Useff: ahahaha
(10:58:44 PM) Useff: I don't know if I've heard that
(10:58:51 PM) Noah: I coined it a few seconds ago
(10:58:58 PM) Useff: that's awesome, use it
(10:59:09 PM) Useff: not around white people though, they would probably not get it
(10:59:18 PM) Useff: I mean, you can use it around them I guess because they wouldn't get it
(10:59:33 PM) Noah: "what makes hair good? :-?"
(10:59:39 PM) Useff: lol

Canibus - Can-I-Bus (1998)

(03:14:01 PM) Noah: I style with them hammers x4,
I wild with your nana x2,
Doggie style on the hamper x2,
(04:36:44 PM) Noah: Hey so I'm listening to Can-I-Bus for the first time in years
(04:36:56 PM) Noah: Canibus is just so fucking pretentious with the scientific shit, it's amazing
(04:37:29 PM) Noah: "You don't even know the sequences to the human genome project", as if he knows
(04:37:48 PM) Noah: I guess all of his puffing just seemed so impressive in 7th grade
(04:37:58 PM) Noah: Puffery MCs

Edit: I still love Canibus, partly for the reasons listed above. No one does the science-in-rap thing better. The beef between Bis and LL was one of the most exciting events during my childhood, in relation to hip-hop. His debut album was probably my first big musically disappointment. Discovering 2000 B.C. when I thought Canibus had disappeared from the face of the earth was incredible. Popping the disc into my cd player and realizing that even though Canibus wasn't the second coming of Rakim that everyone expected, but that he was something much more than a flash in the pan, has been interesting.

Juvenile - Reality Check

(08:01:58 PM) Noah: Trying to listen to Juve's "reality check"
(08:02:00 PM) Noah: wish me luck
(08:02:44 PM) Useff: haha
(08:02:47 PM) Useff: good luck, man
(08:02:55 PM) Useff: Apparently it has some pretty horrible songs
(08:03:26 PM) Useff: oh yeah, john k.'s blog has unaired ren & stimpy clips
(08:03:35 PM) Noah: like the ones you showed me a while ago?
(08:03:54 PM) Useff: yeah but more recent
(08:03:59 PM) Useff: not the same ones
(08:04:02 PM) Useff: taking a shower now
(08:04:06 PM) Noah: cool
(08:05:39 PM) Noah: downside of this feeling: I'm drinking a beer now, and I can't concentrate on more than one thing at a time
(08:05:49 PM) Noah: so if you're relaxed and you're drinking beer, expect your focus to drop
(08:06:19 PM) Noah: which just might be the opposite of when I'm getting a slight buzz otherwise: then I am hypersensitive about everything at once (being totally wasted is another thing entirely)
(08:12:58 PM) Noah: I may have heahrd 2 good songs on this whole mother fucker
(08:13:27 PM) Noah: I think he sampled Jay - Z's voice from dust your shoulders off in this song
(08:13:42 PM) Noah: and somehow this producer just changed that beat
(08:13:46 PM) Noah: it's just bad all over
(08:16:30 PM) Useff: sounds like a real winner
(08:17:07 PM) Noah: whoever said this album was good is bugged in the fucking brain
(08:17:27 PM) Noah: http://pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/j/juvenile/reality-check.shtml HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
(08:17:38 PM) Useff: Waldo said a couple songs were good but some of the songs are the worst ever
(08:17:47 PM) Useff: nice link
(08:18:04 PM) Noah: this review says sets go up is the best song on the album
(08:18:10 PM) Noah: I skipped that about 30 seconds in
(08:18:13 PM) Noah: I'm done w/ this.
(08:18:15 PM) Useff: haha

New Mobb Deep Record.

9/16 tracks feature G-Unit members.

It's not really a quality album if you're like me and don't like G-Unit.

But there are a few really good tracks on here. Prodigy and Havoc (Havoc moreso) come correct on a few tracks, even some of those with G-Unit on them.

Get it if you ever loved the Mobb and want to see them continue to make records. Hopefully they aren't locked into a contract with G-Unit until they're in their respective gunmetal-plated graves.

Back on top.

101% Noah.

The Other Woman:

Written by Jesse Mae Robinson:
...as sung by Nina Simone.


The other woman finds time to manicure her nails
The other woman is perfect where her rival fails
And she’s never seen with pin curls in her hair

The other woman enchantes her clothes with french perfume
The other woman keeps fresh cut flowers in each room
There are never toys that’s scattered everywhere

And when her baby comes to call
He’ll find her waiting like a lonesome queen
Cos when she’s by his side
It’s such a change from old routine

But the other woman will always cry herself to sleep
The other woman will never have his love to keep
And as the years go by the other woman
Will spend her life alone

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