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Little Tiny Fish.
A recent study says students tend to judge people based on their addresses. For example, people who used words like “little,” “sweet,” or “baby,” combined with cute animal names like “mousy” or “bunny” — or perhaps littletinyfish? — the students said agreeable and neurotic. On the other hand words like “King” or “The Best” were linked to narcissism. Even more interesting: these judgements tended to be right in five of the six personality characteristics they measured.
This Week in Tech: Get Off of My Cloud
··· Stickers appraise mundane objects in Appleton.
Rob Neilson, a Lawrence assistant professor of art, wouldn’t say whether his department had anything to do with the stickers. But he did say the dots were serving a fundamental role in art - to instigate thoughtful discussion of profound and provocative ideas. “This particular piece of guerrilla art seems to have accomplished this lofty goal brilliantly,” Neilson said. He said he couldn’t say who the ‘artists’ might be “but I will tell you I think this is a smart and fun piece of public art.”
··· D.C. Bike Sharing Kicks Into High Gear
I don’t get it. You pay $40 a year to ride a bike for three hours, after which you must return it to the rack. You can find any number of bikes available for about that price, you can ride it as long as you want, and when you’re done, just lock it somewhere.
