Month: April 2011
Nerdy girls are more likely to be into "rough sex" – another fun fact from OkayCupid
Women who use the words "dorky" or "nerdy" to describe themselves are also more likely to be into uh rough sex, according to some stats from dating site OkayCupid. The same isn't true for men. Of course, words like tattoo and piercing have a much stronger correlation with a taste for rough sex. Still -…
Tweet a lot? You're more likely to masturbate & have short relationships
Apparently people who are more active on Twitter have shorter relationships, and uh, are more likely to masturbate. Are we surprised? It's all science. The data has been compiled by dating site OkayCupid. Their users answer a lot of questions about themselves and their behaviours to help the site judge their compatibility with potential dates.…
How teens use Facebook: Trends in Social Networking
How are the teens doing it now? Pretty differently, when it comes to Facebook. Talking to a teenager the other day, I was surprised to find that how she used Facebook was significantly different from how me and my mid-to-late twenties friends use it. I didn't think there would have been that much of a…
Tim Berners-Lee: Let's use the internet as a giant brain
If anyone should believe that we can use the internet to solve big human problems, it's Tim Berners-Lee. He did invent it after all. And he also believes we could be using it better. One of his current ideas, as reported in Wired, is that we should start using the internet as a giant memory…
Barbies aren't modelled on the human figure: here's gruesome proof
Every so often someone wonders what a barbie would look like scaled up to real human size - the answer: pretty wrong. It's an informative exercise in feminism and the body image that we're giving to little girls. According to some BBC research, a real life Barbie with a normal size 10 waist would be…
Fiddling around with URLs – the Independent's website and the Kate Middleton Jellybean story
Some fun today on Twitter as a seemingly rude URL described a story on the Independent newspaper's website about a jellybean that looked like Kate Middleton: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/utter-PR-fiction-but-people-love-this-shit-so-fuck-it-lets-just-print-it-2269573.html Originally attributed to a bored sub at the Independent, it quickly transpired that a chap on Twitter, a certain Toby Manhire @toby_etc had simply gone in and tweaked…
Dropbox: How secure is it?
DropBox - the web service for transferring files - may have inadvertently revealed a security hole by making an announcement about terrorism. DropBox announced in an update that they would provide the government with your decrypted files if requested to do so - obviously this is not a concern to the average user, but it…
Why the Olympics will get us buying 3D TVs…
Looking forward to seeing the elbow of an Olympics boxing champion pop out of the screen at you? It seems a lot of us are. A survey by TV-makers LG found that the Olympics will be what it takes to get over a third of us buying into the 3D TV trend and shelling out…
Poll: Do you think Samsung blatantly copies Apple?
Apple are taking Samsung to court claiming that their Galaxy Phones and Tablet range "blatantly" copy the iPhone and the iPad. They filed a lawsuit on Friday alleging that Samsung violated Apple's patents and trademarks. A spokeswoman said: "This kind of blatant copying is wrong." Apple singled out particularly design features: the shape of the…
Another person who probably hasn't got very many friends on Facebook says Facebook makes you stupid
OH REALLY. Another person has published another blog describing how Facebook makes us stupid. Nicolas Carr, blogger and author of The Shallows: What the Internet is doing to Our Brains writes: "Are you ashamed that you find Facebook boring? Are you angst-ridden by your weak social-networking skills? Buck up, my friend. The traits you consider…
