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Food for your feet – from Geekologie

Ah, it is amazing what a corney *bah-ha* joke can do for the sole *double bah-ha*!

Is the Mattel games department hiring?

Ever feel like your memory soaks up the wrong info; like some of your wires are missing?

Sure, I can remember jingles and lines from movies, but do I know what happened in the news during the past year? Damn.

Do you think the Dow Jones test will ask me to list the names of the Harry Potter characters? No? How about lines from a Friends episode? Shit. Why am I spending money on journalism school? I should be writing useless trivia questions for the next Scene It? game.

Wish me luck. I need all the positive vibes I can get.

To multitask or not to multitask?

To multitask or not to multitask? That is a good research question.

Researchers at Stanford University conducted a study to determine if there is an attention difference between those who multitask and those who do not. In short, are multitaskers really better at multitasking?

I am not a multitasker (the extent of my multitasking practices rarely go beyond having music on in the background) but I have lived with plenty of people who regularly have multiple mediums consuming their attention at once. I must admit that I have always wondered if the practice of multitasking was efficient or not.

The study states that those who multitask are not as good at ignoring irrelevant info. Also, multitaskers are more easily distracted (ha ha, big surprise).

Now, this is not the study to end all studies; the topic certainly needs more attention. If I can get my hands on the study, I will. I am curious to see what the researchers have to say about the limitations of the study findings. I mean, it is one thing to test people on a task they are not familiar with. It is another thing entirely to see the multitaskers, in action, performing tasks that are almost second nature or are so familiar that the action does not require full attention. Does the type of task influence the results?

Also, what differences are there between ages? Undergraduates are hardly representative of the entire media-consuming population.

Any who, take a gander for yourself.
article on BBC
article on MSNBC
the AP article

Elf Cookies Take a Turn for the Worse

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I love reading the Onion. Stories that blatantly poke fun at the ridiculous streaks present in real scenarios.

This particular bit of fun relates to the stream of food product re-calls that litter the news every year. It seems that a Keebler Elf is short one finger. Here is a short piece of the crazy write-up:

“We estimate that fantasy-creature body fragments in foods such as cookies, crackers, and cereal account for no more than two parts per million,” Blosser said. “This is lower than the maximum allowed amount for insect parts and mouse hairs in equivalent products.”