TITLE: Friday Fun
AUTHOR: Eugene Wallingford
DATE: April 22, 2005  3:17 PM
DESC: The semester is nearing its end, and I'm not doing my work.
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Some fun for a Friday afternoon late in the semester.

<EM>Get Perpendicular</EM>

Hitachi is promoting a new method of data storage
called "Perpendicular Recording", in which bits
are stacked in order to save real estate on the
disk.  The idea itself is interesting, but even
better is the
<A HREF="http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/research/recording_head/pr/PerpendicularAnimation.html">
   promotional cartoon</A>
the company is using to teach us about it.  You can't
tell that some animators working these days were
influenced by
<A HREF="http://www.school-house-rock.com/Bill.html">
   Schoolhouse Rock</A>,
can you?

<EM>I Answered the Email, But I Didn't Inhale</EM>

This from
<A HREF="http://www.collisiondetection.net/mt/archives/2005/04/yes_i_answered.html">
   Clive Thompson</A>:

<BLOCKQUOTE>
<EM>According to a new study commissioned by Hewlett
Packard -- and conducted by psychologists at King's
College in London --
<A HREF="http://www.infoconomy.com/pages/news-and-gossip/group106006.adp">
   extensive use email and instant messaging
   can drop your IQ by 10 per cent</A>.
In comparison, smoking pot regularly dents your IQ by
only 4 per cent.</EM>
</BLOCKQUOTE>

The first one is always free...

(The explanation for this anomaly apparently involves
the unsuccessful attempt to multitask, which must lead
to some sort of thrashing.)

<EM>Need a Cluestick?</EM>

Okay,
<A HREF="http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&entry=3291458410">
   this</A>
is just silly.  But I chuckled.

<BLOCKQUOTE>
<EM>The users I know are so clueless, that if they
were dipped in clue musk and dropped in the middle
of a pack of horny clues, on clue prom night during
clue happy hour, they still couldn't get a clue.</EM>
</BLOCKQUOTE>

".. dropped in the middle of a pack of horny clues ..."
And you thought <EM>I</EM> was having a bad day.

(And I would <STRONG>never</STRONG> say this about
my students.  No--really.)
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