Category: Crazy

Courtesy of Mad Magazine:

This is clearly becoming a theme…

Math warning. Researchers analyzed Facebook and friend counts.

They found that a user’s friend count was less than the average friend count of his or her friends, 93 percent of the time.

That seems totally counter-intuitive. If it’s an average shouldn’t you have more friends than your friends about half the time?

No, and this article explains (rather well) why.

Funny and true…

In an example of why Google rocks, the degrees of separation from Kevin Bacon has been built into Google search.

Type “bacon search” + a celebrity name and Google will tell you how many degrees of separation.

I actually had a hard time coming up with celebrities with a higher number than 2. Other than Johnny Carson (4) I haven’t come up with anyone that works and has a higher number than 2.

Non movie celebrities don’t seem to work (bacon search tiger woods just does a regular search).

Seriously fun at parties…

…at the North Pole?

I love questions like this. Reading a mathematical NY Times article, the answer was:

it’s all times

Wikipedia has a great answer:

Polar expeditions may use any time zone that is convenient

So not all times, just whatever the hell you feel like.

ask.yahoo.com gives the very boring answer:

Both the North and South Poles officially use Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), also known as Greenwich Mean Time

I would argue this is why Yahoo is dying…