A date offer

I got invited to drinks Friday night by one of my co-workers.

She had sent the email to the wrong person.


About sums things up.


Those who will actually be in Montreal this weekend might want to go to the First You Get the Sugar single launch at O Patro Vys on Friday.

Differences in British and American swearing

I think I might have to go and look at the book and determine the methodology, because these lists don't seem quite right to me. Of course, that a result is counter-intuitive is quite common in science, so who knows?

Still, I am glad that there are people who study such things.

Cross-cultural colour

This is an older one from them, but a nice colour wheel of cultural associations from Information is Beautiful.

It's still a pretty confusing read, but it is nice to see some of how the "obvious" relationships between colour and mood or aspect vary. I got to it off of this Neuroskeptic post about the colours of depression.

Mindhacks

Lifted shamelessly from Mind Hacks, a number of interesting articles.

The importance of solitude, which reminds us that "alone" is not the same as "lonely".

For some of my more DIY electronic type readers: How to build hallucinogenic goggles.

Left Handedness.

Big cities scale up human endeavour, both good and bad