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I think the tattoo graph would look similar but with fewer oscillations. - Kevin Fox

Except it should start at 1 and then go straight down at 2 and then go negative. - Akiva

That's the guy chart, Akiva. - Kevin Fox

Oh come on Akiva, it's easy to get the numbers up quickly... a few in the ears, navel, eyebrow, privates perhaps. If selective and tasteful, no biggie. - Tinfoil 2.0

If I could rewrite the chart, it would look like this --> \ - Tamar Weinberg

2 in ears. Nice. 1 in belly. Cool. 1 in nose - depends. Any more ... and that line turns into a bad Sutherland/Bacon movie. - AJ Kohn

I'm a traditionalist. I'm also old fashioned. I don't like piercings. Ear and nose are pretty cute. And I've seen a rare girl be able to pull off an eyebrow piercing (if you know what I mean). But nipples? Labia? Belly button? And, the worst common one: labret? [shudder] And don't even get me started on cheek piercings, piercings that are along the shoulder blades, etc. Oof nasty. - Akiva

Uh-oh, Akiva, we have a problem here! - joey

Akiva can you explain the traditionalist/old-fashioned part? Is it a religion thing? I've heard people say that before (about tattoos too) and it's always confused me since people have been poking holes in their faces for ages. - Anika

I don't mind most piercings. I think tattoos are generally fine as well. I raise my eyebrows at body art that seems designed to destroy job seeking ability (facial/neck tats, gigantic facial piercings, etc), but I don't find them all unattractive. - iTad

I have to admit, I get a little queasy about piercings that penetrate into mucous membranes, or otherwise create potential for leakage. - Tinfoil 2.0

Anika, absolutely not. I just think it's unattractive for the most part. I feel the same way about tattoos. I have seen too many beautiful girls ruined by them. - Akiva

joey, we've always had a problem! And, for the record, there are exceptions to every rule, including this one. - Akiva

I see. - Anika

I'm not sure about that bump at 8 - 10, or the dip around 5. I'm not sure my husband has counted my ear piercings lately. - Rachel Lea Fox

Akiva, that's true ;) - joey

I am in the one and done crowd too - Andrew Leyden

For me, it really depends on the person and the piercing, but I'm generally more for minimalism. I have my ears pierced (but almost never wear earrings) along with my navel and I've wanted to get another for a while but I can't think of anywhere I'd actually want to have it. - joey

Honey, the dip isn't around 5. It's a logarithmic scale! ... Honey? - Kevin Fox

Ooh Kevin, good save :) - Tinfoil 2.0

sure sure! - Rachel Lea Fox

I'll interpret: Some girls, most girls, that girl from the mall, suicidegirls.com, Coney Island side show. - Ryan Kaisoglus

I usually don't like having the attribution at the *end* of the comment, but reading that last comment I was like. yes.. yes.. right. yup. totally. exactly! I need to show this analysis to Ryan! OH. - Kevin Fox

Ryan understands this because he and I came up with this chart while people-watching at the Sunnyvale Art and Wine festival last weekend. This was right before some guy tried to sell us Ukrainian brides. Seriously. - Kevin Fox

I don't mind , the traditional ears and and maybe one in the nose or somewhere else. Its when it looks like the person mistook themselves for a pin cushion that I draw the line - Kim Landwehr

Jess, that reminds me: there is a huge exception to my opinion on this subject: the industrial. A friend of mine in Chicago during the WaxTrax! days had one and I wanted one too. I can't imagine having one now that I'm a cynical, bitter, hateful, spiteful, yet somehow astonishingly adorable old man, of course. - Akiva

@Akiva: I agree with Anika, "traditionalist" is the wrong word to use here, since I'd venture to say that probably most human traditions have included some form of body modification art, and usually some form of piercing...maybe you meant to say "conservative"? ;-) - Louis Simoneau

No, Louis, I did not. I meant traditionalist. Just because some cultures and traditions have included piercings and tattoos doesn't mean that all do. How can I possibly be a traditionalist of a culture or tradition of which I have no connection to? Furthermore, just because some traditions and cultures at one time promoted a certain activity doesn't mean they do so now. Times change. - Akiva

I agree with Tamar. - Rochelle

Akiva, I'm just joking around. But wouldn't that last thing you said mean that those cultures or traditions are being the opposite of traditionalist....if they're "changing with the times" aren't they being modern, or progressive? - Louis Simoneau

for me, I have my ears pierced, a nose piercing that's barely visible and a belly button piercing that no one sees except the closest people to me. I wouldn't want to do more. they're all special to me but I really dont think I can pull of other piercings like eyebrow etc. Some people can, and I respect them. But for the most all I see is beautiful girls that look like pin cushions. I think the dip should be around 5. and one should not have more than one piercing on their face. - Deniz Eda Goze

Louis, most cultures are modern and progressive. The ones that aren't are the ones that are having the greatest struggle. I, of course, don't mean to imply that a culture must embrace modernity to survive; it's just the easier thing to do. But just because one embraces one thing, doesn't mean that all should be embraced. It's a slippery slope. I'm very progressive on some things (gay marriage) and very traditionalist on others (piercings). You choose your battles. - Akiva

Personally, I'm fine with girls with pierced ears,but that's it. I don't find anything attractive, and I've never gotten any myself Of course, people that have them do it for their own reasons though! - Ian May

Hmm, Pascal-Louis is there too, right? You guys will be a JS compiler power-house :) - Mihai Parparita

I've decided that I prefer small companies, and this one sounded exciting. - Jared Jacobs

Yes, Pascal's here. Mike Tsao too. And a couple others I've come to respect quickly. With any luck you'll hear about us in the news by the end of the year! :) - Jared Jacobs

lead by example :P - bob

this should make it to the failblog - imabonehead

Ha... Awesome! - Ross Miller

If it weren't for the ho-hum interview with Ginerich, it would have been a contender for funniest episode ever. - Cyrus Lendvay

bah It wasn't funnier than the 'Obama: He Completes Us' one - David Knight

sweet. - Alan

Perfect! - Rodrigo Jaroszewski

great comment - j1m

I think many of us avoid confusion the same way we avoid physical and emotional pain. Confusion is intellectual pain. And if you are highly intelligent, confusion can crush your self-concept/ego because it reveals your limitations. But there is no real logical reason to avoid confusion. It is a result of attempting to understand. - Steve Olson

I think confusion in a intellectual flowers into important thoughts and benefits everyone - Aarthy

I agree with Steve. Many people (including yours truly) go as far as trying to avoid confusion altogether by not thinking, because, yes, it's painful and it's crushing to know that you don't know all that much. But it's the realization of your own intellectual limitations that's important in fueling that desire to learn, imho. I find that intelligence is more about knowing you don't really know all that much and being open to learning. - April Buchheit

@Aarthy: I'm confused _all_ the time. I don't see how my particular brand of confusion is beneficial to anyone. I'm confused by my own confusion. - April Buchheit

April, When I was a student I was afraid of being wrong so I avoided confusion. It seems as though I was taught that not knowing was a bad thing, so I stuck with safety, what was known. Now I love confusion, because I realized later in life that feelings like confusion and anxiety mean I am approaching something worth doing or knowing. - Steve Olson

I feel that it is important to feel and not to think to much about something because that can lead to rationing your thoughts onto something and finding it hard to let go, I think that if I feel that I'm thinking then it takes you down roads which become harder because you are no longer feeling the thing you are thinking and so make decisions which mean that you plan and thus time of doing becomes a time about thinking of doing and not much gets done. Anyway I feel that I'm hungry and foodstomp time. - Jason

like metric,hate inch - 阿石

Also, in Guatemala they use meters for distance, but pounds for weight. And I agree about the UK-- people there still regularly give their weight in stone! - Shannon Jiménez

Sad but that's the nature of the internet. Since the 'september that never ended' it's been increasingly filled with people who see the world in tabloid terms cf youtube comments, valleywag and techcrunch - Adewale Oshineye

This makes me really sad for a myriad of reasons. 1) I feel similar pressures (being afraid to have personal views misconstrued as "Google's opinion"). 2) More importantly, as a musician myself, I've been long depressed about the state of intellectual property laws in this country (and increasingly other countries). and lastly, 3) It appears as though this fellow has erased all his prior posts! I suppose I could look for them on archive.org, but this memory-hole'ness is alarming :-(. - Adam Lasnik

Adewale: it's important to make the distinction between the makeup of the *discourse* and the *people*. The griefers, lamers, and spastics generate a disproportionate amount of the traffic, which can give you a skewed view of what the population is like. It takes a thick skin to be a high profile public blogger - but there are other choices and venues for participation in the public space. - ⓞnor

@nor Good point. However you've raised a deeper problem. If the only people who can make high profile contributions to public space are the thick-skinned then doesn't that skew discourse even further towards the tabloid? Take this article for instance: http://www.techcrunchit.com/2008... - Adewale Oshineye

Whilst I disagree with Dare on several points I respect his point of view. However when I read articles that make technical discussions into personal attacks or which point out where Larry Page lives: http://valleywag.com/5032163... I see that becoming "public property" is a dangerous path. It's not just a few people talking about technology with their community any more. There are, it seems, always people watching ready to turn anything you say into a news story. What's worse these - Adewale Oshineye

are often malicious and inaccurate. - Adewale Oshineye

I effectively stopped blogging after joining Google. The cost of seeing a headline like "Google spokesperson DeWitt Clinton says ..." was just too high. Indeed, exactly that happened more than once already, fortunately under innocuous circumstances. But I wanted to avoid it happening again with something material on the line. I treat everything I say publicly as if it will be quoted as "Google spokesperson says". - DeWitt Clinton

Ditto, DeWitt... :-( - John Mueller

I think that unimportant people like myself are the worst off for it, as we're the most likely to be oblivious to the consequences of what we say. - DeWitt Clinton

"Much like the U.S. economy, things are getting worse, not better. Copyright law has abandoned its reason for being: to encourage learning and the creation of new works. Instead, its principal functions now are to preserve existing failed business models, to suppress new business models and technologies, and to obtain, if possible, enormous windfall profits from activity that not only causes no harm, but which is beneficial to copyright owners." - j1m

For me, one of the reasons is that I feel that I should avoid writing about anything that could be remotely related to what I do at work. The problem is, that I'm such a geek that it's almost all that I'm passionate enough about to write about, so not much is left :). Michael Kaplan somehow manages ... is it the topics? or the style? - John Mueller

Thanks for bringing that back into the conversation, @j1m. Our patent system is similarly depressing. I spend most of my working day trying to give intellectual property away. You wouldn't believe how hard that is. - DeWitt Clinton

Among others I just added: Popeye's Chicken!! - Christopher Sacca

awesome, nice share!! thanks Sacca!! - Susan Beebe

You missed salesforce.com - @successforce - Kingsley Joseph from twhirl

This really should be a wiki. They're missing a ton that I can see. For instance, Intel has a half dozen blog/event feeds, and more than 100 people on Twitter. Check out @pulseofintel's friends for a sample. - Josh Bancroft

hey corpo f#(%s: twitter is fascist. find a better network... this one is dead. why not come to friendfeed and create a dialog? - NoahDavidSimon

The original is http://www.susannahertrich.com/html... but still doesn't explain the methodology. See also http://www.icsu-scope.org/downloa... (from http://www.icsu-scope.org/downloa...), less pretty but in a similar vein. - ⓞnor

Even if the stats are off a bit, this is a great visualization. - Adam Barker

Is that what people originally believe in or what media makes them believe in? If there's a difference, anyway. As far as terrorism goes, it may depend on which culture/ country you're embedded it, and also on your definition of terrorism. - Philipp Lenssen

Wow; wish something like this existed when I went to school...maybe more schools will follow suit? - Benjamin Golub

good move by Stanford - but isn't it sad that a families making $90k can barely afford to send their children to a good university? - Frederic

Wow. That's great! (And I went to Cal, so my bias can't override this good news) - Louis Gray

Great decision on Stanford's part, no doubt, and one that highlights how the economics of (higher) education are running aground in this country. When the ability to afford an education becomes the gating factor to kids being able to pursue one is when we should realize the profound challenges the U.S. faces in keeping developmental pace with the rest of the world. Sadly, it's unlikely that most universities can afford to match Stanford's move. - Andrei M. Marinescu

CorelDraw package can do it, but let's not get into a Photoshop vs Photopaint battle ;) (I like PhotoPaint better) - Philipp Lenssen

but how do i output it into a bitmap that gmail will accept -->eps then mac preview --> jpg|gif don't work (though ff++ accepts the output of either) - j1m

Jim in PhotoPaint (if you have it) you just need to import the EPS file, provide the original file size, and then save it again, as e.g. JPG or PNG. (If you don't have that program, look "for EPS to Bitmap/ JPG" or something...?) - Philipp Lenssen

In Fireworks (the best bitmap/vector hermaphroditic app out there...) you can do a kludgy version of this by selecting a section of color, then using Convert Mask to Path. Only works for one color at a time, though. - Michelle Lee