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Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2005 6:13 pm
by erik
Wo0t, 14/20 fake smiles.

Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2005 6:47 pm
by Mogosagatai
15 on the smile quiz. :) <--fake or real?

And what is up with that icon? I've been taking it to mean "I'm confused." Apparently it's a smiley face.

Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2005 12:55 am
by the Jazz
Ho boy, 16 of 20 on the smilies - finally a quiz I do well on!

I like this part:
Scientists distinguish between genuine and fake smiles by using a coding system called the Facial Action Coding System (FACS), which was devised by Professor Paul Ekman of the University of California and Dr Wallace V. Friesen of the University of Kentucky.
Which I take as an attempt to make their system seem a bit less arbitrary than it is. Not that I'm saying it's bullshit, just that I'm skeptical about labeling things as real or fake with an algorithm.

Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2005 11:27 am
by Hoblit
tviyh wrote:
Justincombustion wrote:80s music quiz
we totally should have gotten a higher score than that, though -- no partial credit for "porno mags" instead of "porno mag", "calitas" instead of "colitas", or "other half dies" instead of "other half die" :twisted:
EXACTLY.

Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2005 11:43 am
by Gazelles

Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2005 11:52 am
by king_arthur
8/20. I'd have done better by just assuming that they were all genuine (or all fake)... however, I expected to do really poorly at this, I have no perceptual skills whatsoever. This just confirms it (again).

Charles

Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 3:47 am
by Hoblit
king_arthur wrote:8/20. I'd have done better by just assuming that they were all genuine (or all fake)... however, I expected to do really poorly at this, I have no perceptual skills whatsoever. This just confirms it (again).

Charles
I have some precpetual skills...but my problem is that I give everybody the benifit of the doubt, to a fault. I gave a genuine even if I was 'suspicious'.

Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 2:42 pm
by Justincombustion
Do you call it: Pop, soda or Coke?

I'm a 'soda' person in the land of 'Pop' It's a metaphor for my life.

Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 2:51 pm
by Bjam
Back home in the UK we used to call it "Fizzy pop", but 'round these parts we call it soda or else people get confused.

Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 3:00 pm
by Southwest_Statistic
I usually say the particular brand I want, like "Dr. Pepper" or "Sprite".

Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 3:29 pm
by c.layne
what is up with alaska and the virginias? those people are craaaazy!

Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 4:57 pm
by HeuristicsInc
Man, consider this... I went to college at the University at Buffalo, the land of "pop." A large segment of the population were from Long Island/NYC, the land of "soda." See the map for a visual aid to help you imagine this. The endless discussions on which one was right might have been interesting for a month, but I was there for 4 years.
Yow!
-bill

Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 6:55 pm
by Mogosagatai
"Soda." I used to say "soft drink," till I learned that that means "a drink without alcohol." Which would entail milk, juice, etc.... "Pop" is right out.

Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 11:59 pm
by Hoblit
Justincombustion wrote:Do you call it: Pop, soda or Coke?

I'm a 'soda' person in the land of 'Pop' It's a metaphor for my life.
Being from Atlanta, it's coke...for everything... I hardly drink it anymore even if I do love the sweet nectar of the gods. Its really bad for me.

also, on a side note...all the pepsi machines in downtown Atlanta are always suspiciously 'out of order'.

Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 9:49 am
by Justincombustion
Would you make a good Jehovah's Witness?



I'm 37% J.W. I'll be knocking on your doors soon!!!

Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 10:31 am
by JonPorobil
HeuristicsInc wrote:Man, consider this... I went to college at the University at Buffalo, the land of "pop." A large segment of the population were from Long Island/NYC, the land of "soda." See the map for a visual aid to help you imagine this. The endless discussions on which one was right might have been interesting for a month, but I was there for 4 years.
Yow!
-bill
That's how Soda got his nickname.

I go to college in central Ohio. One guy comes into our room and says "I'm gonna steal a pop from you, ok?" My roommate and I say in unison, "No you're not." He looks confused, then annoyed. "Okay, fine. I'm gonna steal a soda from you, ok?" We nod consent.

Oh yeah, I got a 15/20 on that fake smile quiz, but isn't that more Monkey Affairs material?

Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 11:31 am
by Jim of Seattle
http://www.merzo.net/index.html

click on the zoom tabs near the top. It's not obvious, but you can drag the images around.

Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 4:18 pm
by Niveous
Jim of Seattle wrote:http://www.merzo.net/index.html

click on the zoom tabs near the top. It's not obvious, but you can drag the images around.
*LMAO at the moveable Death Star*

Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 11:47 pm
by roymond
10x10 news by numbers

Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 8:41 am
by roymond
Google Maps is the best online maps site ever (for north americans, that is). The directions are good, the local points of interests feature is amazing. Once it goes live I imagine they will have deals with various Yellow page listing, etc.

Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 11:08 pm
by Henrietta
Stinkoman Game "This game will prove a challenge... but can you prove it back?"
http://www.homestarrunner.com/stinkogam ... ogame.html

Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 1:09 pm
by Jim of Seattle
The website could solve a LOT of problems for Songfight collaborators. Free site to exchange files up to 100 Mb in size. No need for FTP sites. Very cool! And free! Signup takes about 12 seconds.

http://www.dropload.com