I cannot help but wonder how many tight jean and retro t shirt clad Oberlinites are going to spit out their green tea when they discover that they and Mike Huckabee like the same technology.

DD

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Which OS are You?

Come on. I used to run Slackware, and now I'm on Ubuntu. How on earth did I get HP-UX?

DD

For anyone who's had to sit through too many Power Point presentations about too many data sets, this McSweeney's review will strike a familiar chord:

Upon receiving your ambiguously titled invitation, "Sales Meeting," I did not expect to witness the birth of a new mixed-media art movement. On the contrary, I suspected that it would be another narcolepsy-inducing event, for what typically passes for a presentation from the people within your division is bland, static, and with little redemptive or motivational value. It was, then, something of a shock to see your PowerPoint piece titled "Sales Forecast, Third Quarter" presented with little fanfare. The subtle downplaying of expectations only heightened the shock and amazement this tour de force eventually triggered in the minds of everyone lucky enough to view the production.

Read the whole thing.

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I don't know why I do this, but I read a lot of Republican blogs and magazines. I managed to find this piece of beauty at Culture 11's Ladyblog.

All too often on this site, we don't get to write about the non-politicall uses of data, quantitative methods and econometrics.  After the massive success of Levitt's Freakonomics, we saw a huge increase in the popularity of using economic methods to study quirky, clever or even cutesy problems.  Even non-quant people have gotten into the act.  One of the Culture 11  Ladybloggers theorized that selection bias explains why people think that jerks are more romantically successful than non-jerks.

Oh, and you know there's more.

We all know that the GQR ideology question is ultimately useless, so here's one that's pretty good.

I can't believe that I got New Left Hipster. Sheesh. DD

My Liberal Identity:

You are a New Left Hipster, also known as a MoveOn.org liberal, a Netroots activist, or a Daily Show fanatic. You believe that if we really want to defend American values, conservatives must be exposed, mocked, and assailed for every fanatical, puritanical, warmongering, Constitution-shredding ideal for which they stand.

Take the quiz at www.FightConservatives.com

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