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May 7, 2010

Newspaper Demographics

Who reads which paper:

1. The Wall Street Journal is read by the people who run the country.

2. The Washington Post is read by people who think they run the country.

3. The New York Times is read by people who think they should run the country and who are very good at crossword puzzles.

4. USA Today is read by people who think they ought to run the country but don't really understand The New York Times. They do, however, like their statistics shown in pie charts.

5. The Los Angeles Times is read by people who wouldn't mind running the country -- if they could find the time -- and if they didn't have to leave Southern California to do it.

6. The Boston Globe is read by people whose parents used to run the country and did a poor job of it, thank you very much.

7. The New York Daily News is read by people who aren't too sure who's running the country and don't really care as long as they can get a seat on the train.

8. The New York Post is read by people who don't care who is running the country, as long as they do something really scandalous, preferably while intoxicated.

9. The Miami Herald is read by people who are running another country but need the baseball scores.

10. The San Francisco Chronicle is read by people who aren't sure if there is a country or that anyone is running it; but if so, they oppose all that they stand for. There are occasional exceptions if the leaders are handicapped minority feminist atheist dwarfs who also happen to be illegal aliens from any other country, or galaxy, provided of course, that they are not Republicans.

11. The National Enquirer is read by people trapped in line at the grocery store.




Shamelessly stolen from Jon Mark Beilue

May 6, 2010

Meowmania



Meowmania

Click anywhere on the page to get a new "meow".

Finally, I've found something to annoy the Beej when he annoys me.

Hat tip to Joanne over at I Have Seen the Whole of the Internet

Gender Estimate Via Browser History

Using your browser URL history to estimate gender

Use the tool at the above link to see if you can be profiled by sex according to your browser history.

According to the comments below the article and analyzer, this thing is pretty accurate. As is often the case, I bring down the average.

My browsing history:

Site Male-Female Ratio
youtube.com 1
wikipedia.org 1.08
amazon.com 0.9
facebook.com 0.83
blogger.com 1.06
imdb.com 1.06
washingtonpost.com 1.15
foodnetwork.com 0.63
drudgereport.com 2.08
hotmail.com 0.83
nfl.com 1.5
excite.com 1.13
startsampling.com 0.32
dallascowboys.com 1.56
megamillions.com 1.27
angieslist.com 0.77
wiley.com 0.89

I had just checked angieslist after seeing an advert on TV (no listings for this area) and had plugged in "wiley" into the address bar to check the spelling for a previous post. (It's spelled "wily", duh) I had also checked the Mega Millions site because I had a ticket for the $200 million+ jackpot. (and as hard as it was to get into the site, so did 200 million other people) The rest of the sites I visit nearly every day.

My results:

Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 54%
Likelihood of you being MALE is 46%

So I guess this means if I want to get in touch with my feminine side, I won't have to go very far.

May 5, 2010

vamoose

vamoose\va-MOOS\ , verb;
1. To leave hurriedly or quickly; decamp.
2. To leave hurriedly or quickly from; decamp from.



I've done some vamoosing in my time.

Sometimes, with my mild dyslexia, I read words differently than they really are, or get a weird picture in my head when I see the word.

This popped into my head:



A VA moose.

I'm a Wily Smiley




You Are Wise



You enjoy a good book. You like to get lost in someone else's world for an afternoon.

You are a deep thinker and a flexible person. You are open to new ideas and to change.

You are very upstanding and honest. You do your best to be true to yourself.

Brainy and knowledgeable, you are very independent. You have a lot to be proud of, but you're not a showoff.





To be honest, there were other smilies from which to choose that appealed more to me, but this one reminded me of a guy with a nickname of "StevieXXX" from my MSN Group days; he had a group devoted to smiley faces. The smiley looks like a cow's udder and Stevie was the biggest boob I ever met online.

More than you'll ever need to know: Smiley info on Wiki

Nothin' At All - Heart




I'm a sucker for pop music and especially Heart.

On a related note, I searched to see if I'd posted this tune before, and noticed all the other YT Heart songs had been removed.