Uncle Matt's tids and bits

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"Preach the gospel at all times. If necessary, use words." - ? | | | | | | |
"If there is anything I have learned from liberals and conservatives, it's that you can have great answers and still be mean... and that just as important as being right is being nice. " - shane claiborne | | | | | | |
"If Liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear." --George Orwell ||||||
"On Facebook, no one can hear you scream." - I dont know ||||||
"The reformer has enemies in all those who profit by the old order, and only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new order, this lukewarmness arising partly from fear of their adversaries, who have the laws in their favor; and partly from the incredulity of mankind, who do not truly believe in anything new until they have had actual experience of it." - Machiavelli ||||||

disney thinks you have NO MEMORY - video

1/24/2010 at 10:15 AM

4 Big Myths of Profile Pictures: how to be seductive - article

analyzing three primary things:

* Facial Attitude. Is the person smiling? Staring straight ahead? Doing that flirty lip-pursing thing?
* Photo Context. Is there alcohol? Is there a pet? Is the photo outdoors? Is it in a bedroom?
* Skin. How much skin is the person showing? How much face? How much breasts? How much ripped abs?

http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/2010/01/20/the-4-big-myths-of-profile-pictures/

Prehistoric life was not short - it is a statistical "error"

at 9:42 AM

"Prehistoric life was not short. This is a blessed scientific lie.

We explain this in much more detail in the book, but here's the misunderstanding in a nutshell.

* There was high infant mortality in prehistory. (How this compares to infant mortality in Medeival Europe or modern India and China is an interesting question we look at in the book, but no space for it here.)
* There are technical difficulties in distinguishing age of death beyond the early 30s, when one's last teeth are fully erupted from the jaw bone.
* These two factors combined with sloppy thinking to create the wide-spread "fact" that "if you made it to 30 or so, you had done well."

full article here:

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/sex-dawn/201001/lies-damned-lies-and-blessed-lies

falcon flies with headcam attached - video

at 9:39 AM

old jews telling jokes - videos

at 9:33 AM

http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml

Christian TV show gets rickrolled - video

at 9:30 AM

i actually feel A LITTLE sorry for them -

7 Bullshit Police Myths Everyone Believes (Thanks to Movies)

at 9:12 AM

"Hollywood has never been afraid to sacrifice realism for the sake of an entertaining story. And since pretty much every movie or TV show features the police in some way, we as an audience get fed a lot of total horseshit about how the law works and how cops operate in the USA.

But as most of us are on the outside of the judicial system (for the moment) we usually don't even realize that what we're being told is incorrect. So we just accept things like..."

http://www.cracked.com/article_18385_7-bullshit-police-myths-everyone-believes-thanks-to-movies.html