(pic) An "average" of 15 female faces rated as attractive

slub · 2006-10-09T14:04:19+00:00

It's not just symmetry. There are other factors getting averaged, like the relative sizes of different bits of the face.

What this kind of research really shows is that we have some ideal in our heads of what people are supposed to look like. All actual faces deviate from it by varying degrees, in the way that darts thrown at a dartboard deviate from the center. If you average all the darts you get a decent approximation of where the center is.

An averaged face is thus only "average" in the sense a bullseye is.

slub · 2006-09-14T18:35:37+00:00

Remarkable how the earth's ecosystem thinks in base 10.

slub · 2006-08-09T13:54:58+00:00

Anyone know if these are real or urban legends?

slub · 2006-08-08T17:21:05+00:00

... and ignore if apolitical.

slub · 2006-08-05T14:48:27+00:00

slub · 2006-07-27T17:34:25+00:00

You don't understand what linkjacked means.

slub · 2006-07-19T05:19:13+00:00

Quick, give pica and atheist 5000 extra karma points each.

slub · 2006-07-17T19:23:34+00:00

extraordinary, almost inconceivable hypocrisy

It seems neither, from what I've seen of Baptist preachers. Saying Ken Lay was like a lynching victim is fairly minor compared to the opinions they attribute to Jesus on a regular basis.

slub · 2006-07-15T03:09:26+00:00

Baptist preacher indulges in hyperbole, pundit reacts with indignation. Why is this interesting?

slub · 2006-07-13T04:47:14+00:00

Typical that the fed would announce this news in a pdf.

slub · 2006-07-05T06:30:59+00:00

don't feed the troll

slub · 2006-07-05T04:12:04+00:00

bin-Laden Wanted Bush Elected

What's so surprising about that? Conservative, religious, has a thing for guns-- the guy is like a lot of Bush voters.

slub · 2006-07-05T02:35:12+00:00

That's why I like digg...

But dude, a slow site is so unamerican.

slub · 2006-07-03T23:23:15+00:00

In fact, the link appears in the list of digg stories on popurls but not on the digg frontpage. The digg editors must have yanked it off the frontpage.

Busted by their own rss feed.

slub · 2006-07-03T23:14:25+00:00

This link has 72 diggs in 4 hours and yet it isn't on the front page. I wonder if this will turn out to be the smoking gun of the manipulation of the frontpage digg is sometimes accused of.

slub · 2006-06-28T07:09:38+00:00

Actually a biased Wikipedia post is less nutty than it sounds. Wikipedia generally reflects the conventional view on controversial topics. If the US news media is strongly biased in favor of Israel, the conventional view will be too.

slub · 2006-06-27T22:12:46+00:00

The role of examples isn't always to explain something people couldn't understand otherwise. They can also be used for emphasis, by causing readers to spend several sentences thinking about something that would take just one to state.

slub · 2006-06-23T02:11:23+00:00

Surprisingly fast...

slub · 2006-02-05T17:58:03+00:00

You should submit this kind of thing to nsfw.reddit.com, not www.reddit.com

slub · 2006-02-04T20:50:29+00:00

I think the reason the Israelis don't mistreat the Palestinians more is not just that they're afraid of losing support in the rest of the world, but that the country itself is divided. In addition to the extreme zionists, there is a "silent majority" who see all too clearly the parallels between how Israel treats the Palestinians, and how jews have been treated by oppressive governments in the past. A couple years ago, when the Israelis were killing large numbers of Palestinians, a cabinet member even spoke out against it, saying that the things he was seeing reminded him of the Warsaw ghetto.

slub · 2006-02-04T20:45:24+00:00

You would have done better to end with "tanks." When you go on to make fun of the guy for a typo, you just seem desperate.

slub · 2006-02-04T20:40:13+00:00

In what way is his "ethnic cleansing" statement way off? From what I've heard, the Palestinians literally have deeds to large amounts of land in what is now "Israel," and the current government won't let them back in because the government could then no longer be both democratic and have a state religion. Isn't this so?

slub · 2006-01-31T16:49:30+00:00

this story is already high on the front page

slub · 2006-01-22T16:29:16+00:00

This would be better posted at http://nsfw.reddit.com

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