OK, I get the school funding angle. And I know that students do not have a full constitutional expectation of privacy. But this still strikes me as creepy…
Category: Technology
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NASA has a sense of humor
Mars Curiosity is now checking in via foursquare. Tips for the Gale Crater:
Extra moisturizer and sturdy shoes would be a good idea, plus oxygen for those of you who breathe.
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The New Yorker (Using Apple Maps)
Courtesy of Mad Magazine:
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Why I still love Twitter
After Romney says:
When you have a fire in an aircraft, there’s no place to go, exactly, there’s no — and you can’t find any oxygen from outside the aircraft to get in the aircraft, because the windows don’t open. I don’t know why they don’t do that. It’s a real problem.
A Twitter hashtag, #RomneyPlaneFeatures is born…
Update: funniest one I’ve seen:
Has a dog carrier on each wing.
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More Maps Humor
This is clearly becoming a theme…
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Your Friends Have More Friends Than You
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.
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Developer Humor
Funny and true…
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Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon
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…
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