"David Moxon subjected 40 men and women to the sounds of a Maserati, Lamborghini and Ferrari, then measured the amount of testosterone in their saliva. He found everyone had higher levels of the stuff -- a measure of their arousal -- after hearing the revving exotics, but the amount the women had was off the charts.
The econobox, however, left everyone colder than a January day in Nome.
The study was commissioned by the ultra-exclusive British insurer Hiscox (we swear we're not making this up), which was curious to know how people respond to high-end luxury cars." - Paul Buchheit via Bookmarklet
Heard this story on the radio the other day - the key factor is that women don't give a stuff what the car looks like - it's all about the noise, baby. If you got a little junker of a car, just punch a hole in the exhaust to get the ladies revvin'.....lol - Slippy Lane
like WMDS is Iraq... there are some things I don't need proof about. BTW Chomsky now says Iraq did have WMDS... and I'm like Gee Really? Do you think women like sports cars? - Noah David Simon
you need proof of this? ask Noam Chomsky and he will change his mind about women in sports cars in 5 years. Guaranteed. The official quote from Chomsky about WMDs in Iraq now is of course there were WMDs in Iraq, because we gave it to them and now we have 50% chance of a dirty bomb going off in the United States in the next 5 years. I still disagree with him... but it makes me want to ask what he has been smoking this decade. I wonder what Gloria Steinem and Arundhati Roy would say about sportscars? WTF? indeed - Noah David Simon
Chomsky: "This is even sometimes discussed. You can find it in the strategic analysis literature. Take, say, the invasion of Iraq again. We're told that they didn't find weapons of mass destruction. Well, that's not exactly correct. They did find weapons of mass destruction, namely, the ones that had been sent to Saddam by the United States, Britain, and others through the 1980s. A lot of them were still there. They were under control of U.N. inspectors and were being dismantled. But many were still there. When the U.S. invaded, the inspectors were kicked out, and Rumsfeld and Cheney didn't tell their troops to guard the sites. So the sites were left unguarded, and they were systematically looted. The U.N. inspectors did continue their work by satellite and they identified over 100 sites that were systematically looted, like, not somebody going in and stealing something, but carefully, systematically looted." - Noah David Simon
sounds to me like the left has a BIG problem to deal with.... now about those sports cars... Gloria Steinem does it turn you on? I don't see much consistency coming from friendfeed these days. you hate Palin and think women get turned on more by sportscars... hmmm - Noah David Simon
so we listen to Chomsky, Steinem, Roy and the rest of the numbnuts and we have Saddam with a bomb because we don't trust our own pentagon? I prefer to just say that women like sportscars http://simonstudiotheatre.blog... - Noah David Simon
not this woman. i think those cars are tacky and that the guys driving them are severely overcompensating. but i'm basing that on friends who drove/drive such cars. - faboo mama
I didn't need science to tell me that. Watch any rap video :p - Matt Musgrave
like I said. you want these people making policy decisions when they can't ever say the chick digs the car? - Noah David Simon
watching rap videos for truths is like using wikipedia as sole source for your doctoral thesis. - Michael J Cohen
I drive a Ford Taurus guess that explains my lack of chix - fotographic via twhirl
oh boy I can't wait to put these Gloria Steinems into power so they can say the pretty lady doesn't dig the car and there were no WMDS in Iraq... DUH! - Noah David Simon
MJC- so you're telling me there's more to life than Gin & Juice? i don't believe it :p - Matt Musgrave
I be darned. Maybe they should repeat the experiment with, say, DSLRs? Custom built PCs with blinking LEDs? Anyone? - Yuvi
Exotic women sells cars. Would love to know how many clicked on that photo :) - Charlie Anzman
anything coo and stylish, Yuvi, preferably from our everyday abode, might turn women on :) a coolish looking lighter might as well ;) - Hayk Hakobyan
@Hayk - is that from personal experience? :P I'll start working on the LEDs right away! - Yuvi
hell, yeah, very long sequence for trending - 40 measurements from N billions of human population on Earth... Very scientific :-/ - silpol
There is an interesting site where beautiful models showcase cool gadgets - needless to say models sometimes have scarce dresses but always conspiciously show their gadgets http://gadgetmodels.i4u.com/ .Updated monthly :) - Hayk Hakobyan
what astounds me is that there is a debate here. the chick *likes* guys with cars and there *were* WMDs in Iraq. and there *are* ELITIST blue state snobs on friendfeed who block if you disagree - Noah David Simon
Women often give me money for the opportunity of riding in my car. I've convinced myself that being a cab driver has some bearing on this. - Christopher Harley
Yuvi, not really :) It is more knowing the underlying psycho-biological process of partner selection :) Females as well as males look for competitive advantages in the other gender. Research proved that females dig more into guys who dance well - the same line of htought - because not many males dance well and those who dance well convey a message of good physical state, coordination, open-mindedness,etc. - messages picked up by females. - Hayk Hakobyan
Dunno what the car is, but the model is hot! :D - Ron
Noah, dancing is not the exclusive determinator. IT is only one of many :) In politics and show business - the examples you tampered - I have to say it doesnt much work, as you said:) the reason being that it is either not visible or relevant to what they do (like in politics) or everyone is/becomes good at it (like in show business)! In both cases advantage ceases to be a relevant advantage. - Hayk Hakobyan
my sister is a professional ballerina. She is in the Joffrey. The general behavior of most in the ballet world is one of deciet and sexual disfunction. from wife beaters to cheats... to drug problems. It is not a positive trait for women to see in a man. you are right that there are many variables. Certainly Barishnokov does well... but he does well because he is powerful and he did not do as well with the ladies when he was younger... despite what his bravado might say - Noah David Simon
on the other hand men do like to see Salome dance and will cut off John's head for it. Dance is confusing. At first it might seem like Michael Jackson is "The King of POP"... but that sexual tension is not there for Bill Gates. I'll take the car over dance skills. Thanks, but no thanks. As Freud said. "Let us call a spade a spade" - Noah David Simon
"Drive fast, speed turns me on." - Will Smith, Parents Just Don't Understand - Hutch Carpenter
CHICKS DIG THE CAR! no science can prove that. no feminist will ever convince me otherwise. - Noah David Simon
Noah David Simon - what the f*ck are you going on about? Perhaps people block you because you can't even stay on your OWN offtopic topic :P - Jake Stetser
Jake: I thank the block gods that I don't even know what the pants you are talking about. :-D - Lisa L. Seifert
Hehehehehehehe ;-) Just to be different. :-) - Kol Tregaskes
where does mwahahahaha come in the scale? :) - alphaxion
:D love to write it that way, but because of the spell check I tended recently to reduce on the number of syllables. hahahaha is usually my level of laugh for the best outta those and hehehe in a more subtle way. - [ zu ]-eBailey
I agree with most of those, except lol is usually between hah and haha and LOL is usually between haha and hahaha. And rofl is around hahaha and ROFL is usually around hahahaha.. but you gotta remember the original... hehe, which is around hah, but in more of a serious laugh. :D - Ken
"Developers have been working around the clock to produce some fantastic custom verbs for Ubiquity. Here is ReadWriteWeb's list of the top picks of custom Ubiquity verbs!" - Jan Tißler via Mento
وااییی من تشنمه نوشابه میخوااام:(((((((((((( - Aida
Where are the memorials to those who fought and died in the Cola Wars? Where is their parade? Where are the heros? Lest we forget... - John Worthington
...and all poor little Cola ever did was try to speak out against segregation. :( - Matrixx333
Manny has been killed and the platoon is looking for revenge... - J. Abdul-Qahhar
how about this one .... "Right, some bastard's glassed this wee lassie, and nay bastard's leaving this pub until we find oot who did it!" - (Begby from Trainspotting) - Slippy Lane
wow very creative. Maybe pepsi should hire you. - Colide81
"Can it get any worse for the newspaper industry? The steep decline in print advertising just keeps getting steeper and, for the first time, even online ad sales have gone down. Total print ads in the U.S. were down 16 percent in the second quarter to $8.8 billion. That makes nine consecutive quarters in which “print revenues have declined at an almost continuously accelerating rate,” notes Alan Mutter at Reflections of a Newsosaur. He put together the chart at left, which starkly illustrates the newspaper industry’s death dive." - Jan Tißler via Mento
globalization makes 2nd hand goods not so attractive? wait until more 2nd and 3rd world countries get a hang of internet shopping. - Mihai Tarmure
RIM and now Apple have surpassed Palm on its own market. Where are eBay's competitors on its core market ? I agree that the strategy of eBay is not clear, how Skype fits in, and so on, just like Yahoo!... - Antoine Bertier
At $31B, MSFT should buy eBay to increase ecommerce search (as they are trying to do with CashBack). They will also get Shopping.com, Paypal and Skype for the same price. - Martin Añazco
Stock price alone is not a sufficient measure of a company's health. - Jason Wehmhoener
yahoo can become a lean mean innovation machine within 12 months. ebay could learn from etsy and zappos and redefine. stock prices are a poor measure of anything and hopefully people are figuring that out. managing for the next quarter results is a recipe for failure in these times. - Gregory Lent
I am working on a story about eBay. It has really pissed off its power sellers. My ex is one. They have really screwed up a good thing. - Robert Scoble
Whitman stepped down as eBay CEO in March, and the new CEO has a few more months of honeymoon before investors begin calling for his head too. Wang did not get a long honeymoon at Yahoo. - Denton Gentry
I'm more interested in how Neil Dunn's demo went. - Ontario Emperor
@Robert_Scoble: That seems to be the story of Ebay's life--mess with the most fanatic users constantly. They don't have anywhere else to go so what the heck. - Andrew Leyden
I fully agree with Jason Wehmhoener. MSFT being a classic example of this phenomenon. - Andrew Bonventre
eBay is sitting on what i think is a gold mine, that being Skype. But they aren't doing anything with it. So sad. - PC Easy
I don't think that Ebay problem is with "did this " & "did that" - their and (many other) corporations problem is one and simple: they were overwhelmed by influx of those who came there "just for job", from top to rank'n'file - THIS is essentially death of any company. Once they rule company, it is doomed. - silpol
eBay used to be a lot more relaxed and fun. They've tried so hard to make it accountable and foolproof and phish proof that the experience can be a bit ponderous. For example: in the past I could email various bidders and engage them in dialogue about an item's pros and cons: now that kind of spontaneous community building aspect is strictly forbidden. - Michael Muller
eBay will put its stock up for auction? - Louis Gray
IMHO, ebay died and craigslist is quicker and easier - Cheryl Allin via twhirl
The posts I write and expect good views, don't do well. The Internet constantly suprises me. - Roberto Bonini
You're starting to sound like TechCrunch! :( - Gavin
@Louis - sure, it is about good stories and discussion generally - but pageviews are also important. I do this for a living and that's a big part of the bottom line. - Marshall Kirkpatrick
wow - this might be the most telling thread on FF I've read all week. - Allen Stern
Friday during the late summer? Good luck with that - Jason Carreira
So we are going to see a long thread about blogging for a living vs. blogging for passion. Will sure be interesting to watch :) - Svetlana Gladkova
yeah Louis, that's such an easy thing to say when it's a sideline - Ivan Pope via twhirl
it's not a matter of blogging for a living *vs.* blogging for passion. I love doing it and my top priority is writing about things I feel good about having written about. That said, if I write 3 posts in one day and they all get less than 250 page views, I'll be frank with you - that's me not doing my job well enough, not even close. Unless some or all of them are on a really important topic and it's ok. Like when the Data Portability Working Group elected new leadership, that got very few pageviews but - Marshall Kirkpatrick
given the topics we cover - it was a must-do article, I thought. Likewise, my post about the story of Common Craft http://www.readwriteweb.com/ar... I LOVED writing about, and it just today creeped over 1k pageviews, so that's ok. But if it had gotten stuck at 500, I would have said "well, that was an important post for me personally so it's ok" but my post on Chrome TOS has gotten 15k pageviews so far and that f'ing rocks. - Marshall Kirkpatrick
I don't remember the last time I wrote something that got that many pageviews. And that was very good for me as far as doing my job goes. So it's both. That's how it goes. - Marshall Kirkpatrick
I went and got my mac from next door after reading this on my iphone. Guys, you can't seriously think that a blog that is fundamentally a business shouldn't focus on page views?? - Zee at WeDoCreative
Do you only write for RG or do you have your own blog? - Brandon
Brandon, what's RG? If you mean RWW (readwriteweb.com) that's where I write full time, I've got a blog at marshallk.com but that's about consulting work, which I don't do much of these days. - Marshall Kirkpatrick
1) I wasn't trying to pick on Marshall. He's a good writer who really cares about getting the story right and interesting. One of the best out there for sure. 2) I get the race for page views, especially on pro blogs where ads are vital. 3) I wanted to see how important page views were vs. discussion for one of the most-respected guys in this industry. I tend to feel that not every quality post ends up in quality traffic, and it's hard to guess. It's just interesting to see the public self-flaggelation. - Louis Gray
your post about Common Craft just got another PI (discovered this post in your comments). - Torsten Eckert
thanks Louis, I figured that's what you meant. your support is much appreciated. now go click on some damn links and ads, would you? ;) - Marshall Kirkpatrick
Hee hee! I've gotten maybe 1000 visits ever, and a good chunk of them were from that one time I commented on a hot post at TechCrunch. Lucky for me I'm not blogging for money. - Daniel J. Pritchett
frankly I don´t like the pure amount of buttons on the right side. I´m not noticing them. Don´t know who is responsible for the adsales and adplacements on rww. I would place greater ads and maybe I would use some kind of targeting technology for better ctr´s. Changing the point: I´m supporting via clicking and reading. - Torsten Eckert
It will be interesting to see when something like sitemeter.com starts showing Chrome. See Fred Wilson's sitemeter stats. It is not clear to which browser sitemeter is attributing the Chrome traffic - http://www.sitemeter.com/?a=st... - Atul Arora
"One of the things you learn about Silicon Valley after you've been here for just a little while is that there are some folks around here who are really, really into the technology and innovation aspect of things -- and then there are those who are only around for the money." same here in good ol' germany - marcel weiss
