Omg, hella long, hard to follow sometimes. But some nice parts where, maybe not realizing it, Gates talks about how rationality is in the eye of the beholder and not this universal, objective thing. - Lilly Irani
"All I know is that of the people I know who took it, the higher age was assigned to the person who in practice is actually much sharper (at least at what I do research in) than the person who scored in the low 20s. (I scored 30, so I don't feel threatened. I'm just saying that in small sample sizes, I don't see this mapping to intelligence as I understand it in my daily experience as a researcher.)" - Lilly Irani
I scored 26 on first try, 20 on second try. I'm 34. So? It seems to me that this has more to do with visual memory and perhaps spatial something than anything else. Are they claiming it is something more than that? - Eszter Hargittai
Couldn't you have just turned off that option in Orkut?! :) - Adam Lasnik
oh, perhaps. didn't occur to me. it was collecting dust and getting crusty anyways. - Lilly Irani
Hey, I sympathize; I only reactivated my account because I met a nice Brazillian woman at a conference and she drunkenly begged me to be her Orkut friend. It was both funny and endearing, and since she finagled a promise out of me, I felt obligated to follow through :P. - Adam Lasnik
"This is Private First Class LaVena Johnson of Missouri. An honors student who nonetheless didn't quite know what she wanted to do with her life, she enlisted in the Army right out of high school in 2003 and was sent to Iraq, where she died. When the Army returned her mutilated body to her grieving parents as a suicide, her dad, Dr. John Johnson said to himself and the Army coroner, "Somebody murdered my daughter and you picked the wrong person to fuck with." Fucking right." - Lilly Irani via Bookmarklet
This is like scavenger hunts, but it seems like a lot of the practitioners are a bit older. There's a clue in San Francisco that is an ode to Reagan! - Lilly Irani
It's sad. I was such a huge fan of Google News in 2003 (yes, I remember being in my masters then). But I've stopped reading it in favor of blogs and reddit now." - Lilly Irani
