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Day: November 30, 2010

Yearbook Blacks Out Kids’ Eyes for Fear of Porn Potential – ParentDish

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this is officially the dumbest thing I’ve seen in a month.

Yearbook Blacks Out Kids’ Eyes for Fear of Porn Potential – ParentDish

What would you do if you got your kids’ yearbook and all the eyes had been blacked out with magic marker?

Personally, I’d try to wake up. But at a school in England, the principal is very much awake and behind this whole thing. Apparently, she was so worried someone might cut out the kids’ faces, paste them on child porn pictures and post them on the Internet — yes, that’s really her concern — that she ordered the teachers to manually black out all the children’ eyes.

Let’s pause for a second to consider how lovely an illustration this is of what I call “Worst-First” thinking. That is, thinking up the worst, most perverse explanation for something first, instead of assuming a less dramatic, but far more likely, rationale.

Map of the World’s Countries Rearranged by Population | Strange Maps | Big Think

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I love stuff like this. It serves no purpose other than to make you bend your mind around the world in interesting new ways. And that’s kinda cool all by itself.

490 – Map of the World’s Countries Rearranged by Population | Strange Maps | Big Think

What if the world were rearranged so that the inhabitants of the country with the largest population would move to the country with the largest area? And the second-largest population would migrate to the second-largest country, and so on?

The result would be this disconcerting, disorienting map. In the world described by it, the differences in population density between countries would be less extreme than they are today. The world’s most densely populated country currently is Monaco, with 43,830 inhabitants/mi² (16,923 per km²) (1). On the other end of the scale is Mongolia, which is less densely populated by a factor of almost exactly 10,000, with a mere 4.4 inhabitants/mi² (1.7 per km²).

The averages per country would more closely resemble the global average of 34 per mi² (13 per km²). But those evened-out statistics would describe a very strange world indeed. The global population realignment would involve massive migrations, lead to a heap of painful demotions and triumphant promotions, and produce a few very weird new neighbourhoods.

What it’s like to have sex with someone with Asperger’s | Penelope Trunk’s Brazen Careerist

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I’d be hestiant to generalise this to all people (or even any other people) with Asperger’s , but it’s certainly a fascinating look at one individual.

What it’s like to have sex with someone with Asperger’s | Penelope Trunk’s Brazen Careerist

You think it would be really fun to have sex with me. Because, I think you can tell from my posts, I’ll do anything. But maybe you can also tell from my posts that it’s a little bit weird. Because you know that I’ll say anything, too, but sometimes, I make you cringe.

I think I’m that way in bed, too.

This post is about work. And sex, which are two of the essential areas of life one needs to be able to function in before you can feel like a normal adult. And both sex and work are governed by a set of rules that many people are able to learn just by being in the world.

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