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Wired has a very interesting article on linking Autism to
Geekdom. Apparently there are higher than normal levels of autistic children
in Silicon Valley, which may be the result of slightly autistic adults marrying
other slightly autistic adults. For the ability to focus in on code, or any
other kind of technical object, is what makes a good code monkey, which Silicon
attracts. And mild austics would excell at being able to do that. It's been said
that "It seems that for success in science and art, a dash of autism is
essential." by the man who discovered the disorder. Could some of the best
coders today have a touch of autism? Doesn't seem that outlandish to me.
Anyways, it brings up a lot of interesting ideas and theories.
The guys who make Animal Crackers are going to introduce an new animal for it's
100th anniversary. So I'm going to suggest voting for the
penguin, in honor of the Linux mascot Tux.
It's the coolest choice anywho.
Adcritic.com, the place where you could
download videos of commercials, is no more. They ran out of funding and couldn't
pay for the bandwith anymore. Sure it may seem stupid to want to watch
commercials, but there are actually some pretty interesting and entertaining ads
out there. The Superbowl ads were the best part of the site. It was nice while
it lasted anyways.
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