Never thought I’d read this headline: “Lesbian Teens More Likely to get Pregnant than Straight Teens.”
Category: Interesting
Something to Suck Down The Bandwidth
It’s Video Link Dump Time! Videos after the jump:
Vote For Pedro
You know that cool million bucks that Netflix is offering if you improve its predictions by 10%? Apparently, there’s a “Napoleon Dynamite” problem that’s driving the competitors nuts:
Bertoni says it’s partly because of “Napoleon Dynamite,” an indie comedy from 2004 that achieved cult status and went on to become extremely popular on Netflix. It is, Bertoni and others have discovered, maddeningly hard to determine how much people will like it. When Bertoni runs his algorithms on regular hits like “Lethal Weapon” or “Miss Congeniality” and tries to predict how any given Netflix user will rate them, he’s usually within eight-tenths of a star. But with films like “Napoleon Dynamite,” he’s off by an average of 1.2 stars.
The reason, Bertoni says, is that “Napoleon Dynamite” is very weird and very polarizing. It contains a lot of arch, ironic humor, including a famously kooky dance performed by the titular teenage character to help his hapless friend win a student-council election. It’s the type of quirky entertainment that tends to be either loved or despised. The movie has been rated more than two million times in the Netflix database, and the ratings are disproportionately one or five stars.
Personally, I thought the move was dumb.
Post Election Wrap Up
You can read the local results here, but basically, quite are few groups aren’t getting any money from bond measures. La Pine supported their own with the Park and Rec and RFPD bonds, but Bend, Redmond and County voters all turned down any bill that would even remotely cost them money. The Bend Area Transit and COCC bonds failed, the transient room tax failed, Mike Daly got the axe, many of the Sizemore measures failed (can’t remember exactly which ones were his), Smith/Merkely is still too close to call (Jack thinks Merkely’s going to pull it out), and we don’t have a white guy for President for the first time ever. I don’t pay attention to politics a ton, so feel free to share opinions/reactions below.
What Happens If There’s A 269-269 Tie?
If the electoral college were to tie, things start to get confusing.
Electoral-Vote.com has things as a pretty good landslide for Obama today, anything can, and usually does happen. Like four years ago, Kerry looked like he might win the day before the election, so take it all with a grain of salt.
Just get out and vote. Ballot drop sites are here. And laugh at this little image that Yoleen sent my direction:
Why the Electoral College Is Flawed
In the unlikely event that all 213 million eligible voters cast ballots, either John McCain or Barack Obama could win enough states to capture the White House with only 47.8 million strategically located votes. The presidency could be won with just 22 percent of the electorate’s support, only 16 percent of the entire population’s.
Just tell me when it’s all over.
How Strong Is Your Password?
I like to use strong passwords for obvious reasons, and according to this site, using a brute force attack (as a dictionary attack would be useless), the password I use to edit this site would take 6,758,137,437,016,672,809,517,056 hours or 281,589,059,875,694,666,842,112 days to crack. My root server password? Quite a bit longer.
We’re Going To Cut Open Your Brain…
…here, have a banjo.
A musician who underwent brain surgery to treat a hand tremor played his banjo throughout to test the success of the procedure.
Eddie Adcock is one of the pillars of Bluegrass Music and realised his tremor could threaten his ability to perform professionally.
Can You Name All The Countries Of The World In 15 Minutes?
I sure couldn’t. I missed 90% of Africa.
And yes, I have a sneaking suspicion I’ve posted this before, but I’m too lazy to find it.
Update: Fixed link. Thanks, Lucas.