I read about a site where you can post your picture and see how other people judge you accordingly. And of course you can judge other people by their picture. It’s called FaceStat and I decided to try it out. I upoaded the profile picture I use most often. You can see the results here. Users think I am about 37 years old, politically conservative, married, probably trustworthy, and bright. They don’t know me very well! My looks are “not bad”. I might score better there if they had any idea how wrong they are about my age. At least one described me as a “hag” and said I have “ugly glasses.” Bite me. The lesson is, you can’t judge people by their looks. If you decide to try it out, let me know so I can follow the misconceptions about you!



Raspberry Duet (via b3ta)

5 Psychological Experiments That Prove Humanity is Doomed. They do help us understand the craziness around us.

See how other Americans are spending their economic stimulus checks at the blog How I Spent My Stimulus. You can submit your own report, too! How are you going to spend your economic stimulus check?

The Rise and Fall of Atari. This is why you play video games today instead of pinball.

Trueroots has some suggestions for geeky gestures that will surprise Mom on Mothers Day. And they don’t cost much, either. 

Professor Arthur Shapiro started a blog about optical illusions called Illusion Sciences. He posts illusions, then explains why they fool the eye (or the mind).  (via J-Walk Blog )

The 6 Creepiest Comic Book Characters of All Time.

The most visually frightening bridge ever. The Sky Bridge in Langkawi, Malaysia is held up by one thin column set at an angle.

Game Shows Can Sap Your Brains Out.

CONVERSION

(via Phil’s Phun)
A Protestant minister moved into a Roman Catholics community. Every Friday he could be seen cooking steaks etc. Finally the people approached him and asked him to change to the Catholic Faith.

He agreed to do this and after a while the Bishop anointed him with Holy water, sprinkling him three times and saying, "In the name of the Father, the Son and the holy Ghost you are now a Catholic."

The next Friday the man was outside Barbecuing a roast of beef .

The people protested to him, so he got some water, blessed it, and sprinkled it on the meat saying "In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost you are now fish"

How fast can you type?
42 words

Speedtest
Not too shabby for someone who never learned to touch type. (via MotherPie)

It would take real talent to screw up a movie with this concept. The Nazis have been hiding out on the moon since 1945. Eventually, they’ll come back.

10 Insulting Words You Should Know. Because if you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, you can baffle them with these obscure terms.

Illustrator Mike Reed began caricaturing the personalities that forum users display during flame wars some years ago, and the collection has expanded over time. Surely you will recognize some of these Flame Warriors from your own experience. (via Everlasting Blort)

An animation from Chris Ware lets us all in on a married couple’s differing  versions of the same story. The story of “the story” is low key, believable, and altogether entertaining.

PERSPECTIVE

(via Bits and Pieces)
A man had lost one of his arms in an accident. One day he  felt terribly depressed and decided to  commit suicide.

He got into an elevator and went to the top  of a building to jump off.   He was standing on the ledge looking down and saw this man skipping along, whistling and kicking up his heels.  He looked closer  and saw this man didn’t have any arms at all.

He started thinking, what am I doing up here feeling sorry for myself. I still have one good arm to do things with. There goes a man with no arms skipping down the sidewalk happy and going on with his life.   He hurried down to the street and caught up to the man with no arms.

He told him how  glad he was to see him because he had lost one of his arms and felt ugly and useless and was going to kill himself. He thanked him  again  for saving his life and he knew he could make it with one arm if that guy could go on with no arms.

The man with no arms began dancing and kicking up his heels again.

The one armed man asked, ‘why are you so happy anyway?’

He said, ‘I’m NOT happy …. my ass itches!'

Voice Talkers (via Everlasting Blort)

After decades of working in radio, this hits home. I used to dream in advertising cliches. And when I was married to another announcer, people used to comment on how weird it was to hear us speak to each other off-air. This video won second place in some YouTube contest.

Thought for today: The first day at the nudist colony is always the hardest. (via Wulfweard)

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