links for 2009-07-20

• Caveat Parens by Karin Venable Morin on National Review Online
  (tags: gender housing stanford education)
• Episcopal Bishops Give Ground on Gay Marriage – NYTimes.com
  (tags: religion gay rights)

96% Nerd, 61% Geek, 13% Dork

I joined OKCupid on a whim (mostly because it’s free). They have personality tests like most dating sites do to better match you with other members. I took one today called “The Nerd? Geek? or Dork? Test.” I apparently scored 96% Nerd, 61% Geek and 13% Dork, amounting to being a “Modern, Cool Nerd.” Which is good, I guess.

More interesting is the breakdown of each word/category:

A Nerd is someone who is passionate about learning/being smart/academia.
A Geek is someone who is passionate about some particular area or subject, often an obscure or difficult one.
A Dork is someone who has difficulty with common social expectations/interactions.
You scored better than half in Nerd and Geek, earning you the title of: Modern, Cool Nerd.

In true nerd form, I found this interesting and worth sharing.

The Missing Sync

Oh my God. How did I not find out about this sooner?

The Missing Sync for BlackBerry from mark/space.

So much better than that piece of crap PocketMac– syncing my Mac and my BlackBerry actually works now! And I can even sync over Bluetooth! Totally worth the $39.95. In this case, you really do get what you pay for.

Drunk Goldblum

Oh God, I love it:

Am I the only one who still finds Jeff Goldblum attractive in a non-human way (The Fly, Earth Girls Are Easy)?

University of Phoenix Commencement Speech

It’s really not nice to make fun of University of Phoenix like this, but I can’t help it:

Disclaimer: I actually know a really smart and talented engineer who, after so many years in the industry, but no official degree, did his undergraduate degree through them so he could move on to a Master’s and I can’t blame him. Good for him.

Is it racist?

From the Comedy Central show Tosh.0:

I didn’t think a show about web videos would be interesting since I’m not a fan of “wrap-up” shows and I think it’s weird when you people use TV to talk about things from the Internet– it’s like they’re dumbing down computers and the Internet to make it more accessible via television because staring at a TV screen is easier than staring at a monitor.

In any case, I gave the show a shot because I love Daniel Tosh and the show is actually pretty entertaining. And yes, I actually find exactly what I thought I wouldn’t like– using TV to “wrap-up” popular web content– useful since I don’t usually have time to troll the Internet for funny videos. And the Tosh.0 blog is actually a nice complement to the show itself, without being redundant. Give it a shot.

Here’s Daniel Tosh’s hilarious follow up to the above video:

links for 2009-07-09

• World’s strongest vagina breaks own record lifting 14 kilos / MosNews.com
  (tags: sex)
• Flush a Whole Roll Down the Toilet « Tosh.0 Blog
  (tags: video)
• Auto Tune Your Kid « Tosh.0 Blog
  (tags: video)