As Discussed at Lunch

As discussed at lunch…

From an OKCupid article:

oh, also—iPhone users have more sex.

File this under “icebreakers, MacWorld ’11″. Finally, statistical proof that iPhone users aren’t just getting fucked by Apple:

The chart pretty much speaks for itself; I’ll just say that the numbers for all three brands are for 30 year-olds, so it’s not a matter of older, more experienced people preferring one phone to another. We found this data as part of our general camera-efficacy analysis: we crossed all kinds of user behaviors with the camera models and found we had data on the number of sexual partners for 9,785 people with smart phones. We dropped what we found into Excel, and voila. Here’s the plot by age:

Anyone have a spare iPhone (working or non-working) I can borrow? Haha!

Thanks to Jason for the original link

As discussed at lunch…

Awesome.

(Here’s the original featuring Kenneth in case you needed a reference http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9b8erWuBA44)

As discussed at lunch…

From This American Life episode “Numbers”:

Alex Melamid and Vitaly Komar hired a polling firm to investigate what people want to see in paintings. Then, using the data, they painted what people want. It turned out to be a landscape, with a mountain and a lake, and deer, and a family, and George Washington.

 

Then they applied these techniques to music, with composer David Soldier. This “most wanted” version combines the elements the 500 people surveyed said they wanted most — love, soprano sax, humble ambition, tenor sax, a marriage proposal, cheesy electronic drum fills, working the night shift, string swells, power chords, and saccharine male/female harmonies — into an easy listening-style adult contemporary sound that could peel the paint off of the Space Shuttle

http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/listening_post/files/KomarMelamid_The-Most-Wanted-Song.mp3

(For the worst song) Komar & Melamid and David Soldier’s list of undesirable elements included holiday music, bagpipes, pipe organ, a children’s chorus and the concept of children in general (really?), Wal-Mart, cowboys, political jingoism, George Stephanopoulos, Coca Cola, bossanova synths, banjo ferocity, harp glissandos, oompah-ing tubas and much, much more.

http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/listening_post/files/KomarMelamid_The-Most-UnwantedSong.mp3

The most unwanted song is 25 minutes long but is hilarious!

The whole article can be heard here and is part of act 2 http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=88

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As discussed at lunch, Top Gear’s review and comparison of a Diesel 535d which BMW claim is more powerful and fuel economical that the petrol engined 545i.

It has gullwings, and still it looks like an 1980′s Cadillac Allanté in need of a nose job.

Wings + Nose = Turkey

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http://www.thegameconsole.com/

As discussed at lunch…

The orginal photo that started it all when a squirrel wandered into a self timer shot…

And a few examples of the internet craze it has started…