The secret messages in famous logos. Logos here, logos there, logos everywhere. With so many corporate logos bombarding us each day, it’s not terribly shocking that we sometimes miss the subtle hidden messages tucked away in the designs. Geekosystem rips back the curtain and reveals the secret messages in twelve popular logos. Mind. Blown. FedEx Do you see it? Amazon Not only does the yellow arrow form a smiley face, it also points from the A to the Z, as in Amazon has everything from A to Z. Tostitos Sure you can spot a cup of salsa in the middle of the logo, but there are also two dudes enjoying the spicey dip. Special bonus video: OMGFacts quizzes you on the hidden messages in five famous logos (complete with Jeopardy! Full list at Geekosystem.
Get your advertising on. Conditional entropy and the Indus Script. « previous post | next post » A recent publication (Rajesh P. N. Rao, Nisha Yadav, Mayank N. Vahia, Hrishikesh Joglekar, R. Adhikari, and Iravatham Mahadevan, "Entropic Evidence for Linguistic Structure in the Indus Script", Science, published online 23 April 2009; also supporting online material) claims a breakthrough in understanding the nature of the symbols found in inscriptions from the Indus Valley Civilization. Two major types of nonlinguistic systems are those that do not exhibit much sequential structure (“Type 1” systems) and those that follow rigid sequential order (“Type 2” systems). [...]
Linguistic systems tend to fall somewhere between these two extremes [...] We computed the conditional entropies of five types of known natural linguistic systems [...], four types of nonlinguistic systems [...], and an artificially-created linguistic system [...]. Strong words. That's all that I have time for this morning, but I'll come back to this topic later. Permalink. Why men turn to a mistress: a Valentine’s Day tutorial. Creative Loafing Tampa Browse Best of the Bay Browse Arts Browse Music Browse Food & Drink Browse Movies Browse News Browse Sex & Love Browse Blogs Browse CL Deals Daily Loaf Archives | RSS « The Gaily News: Rubio skips CPAC, B… | 10/100/1000 Challenge: Great green… » Share on facebookShare on twitterShare on emailShare on redditMore Sharing Services3 Tuesday, February 1, 2011 Sex & Love Why men turn to a mistress: a Valentine’s Day tutorial Posted by Sex and Love editor on Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 7:14 AM click to enlarge by Susan Jay, author of the erotic memoir, The House of Yes.
I’m the person every woman loves to hate. Most women don’t want to think about me. But as you may have guessed, this story book ending doesn't always work out the way many women expect. -“She used to pop pimples on my back when we were making love.” -“If we had a party, she would show up thirty minutes late and I would have to entertain or wait.” My favorite, “Sex was so Goddamn boring – I just couldn’t crack the code Comments By Email. Twitter Topics and Why They Become Popular. India condemns US for radio-tagging duped students. 31 January 2011Last updated at 04:42 Hyderabad has seen angry protests over the weekend India has condemned US authorities for tagging Indian students who, it says, were duped by a fake university. External Affairs Minister SM Krishna said Indian students were "not criminals" and that radio collars put around their ankles must be removed.
US authorities have shut down the Tri-Valley University near San Francisco, accusing it of an immigration fraud. The university has more than 1,500 students and reports say nearly 95% of them are from India. Most of the students are reported to be from the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh and many of them now face deportation. In the state capital, Hyderabad, members of the All India Students' Federation have demonstrated against the Tri-Valley University near the US consulate. "Indian students are not criminals. The students have been forced to wear radio collars around their ankles so that the US authorities can keep track of their movements. Bloggers' word choice bares their personality traits, study finds. (PhysOrg.com) -- Words convey meaning, but our choice of specific words also conveys details about our personalities, new research confirms.
For example, extraverts are likely to use the word "mouth" frequently, and "open" personalities are likely to use words like "folk," "poetry" and "universe. " In one of the largest studies on the matter to date, Tal Yarkoni, a psychology and neuroscience postdoctoral fellow at the University of Colorado at Boulder, explores what our written words reveal about us. His work also rebuts the widely held belief that people can maintain distinctly different offline and online personalities. Yarkoni's research was published in the Journal of Research in Personality and was funded by the National Institutes of Health. Several previous studies have identified a nexus between language usage and personality. By studying language use in a large sample of bloggers, Yarkoni surmounted these obstacles.
Yarkoni's data bear this out. How to improve writing skills by falling in love - by Maria Papadopoulou. Hyper-Social Organizations. This is a review of the new book by Francois Gossieaux and Ed Moran called The Hyper-Social Organization; Eclipse Your Competition By Leveraging Social Media. This is not a technology book, but rather a good explanation of how consumers are changing due to prevalence of social technology, and what companies should do in order to thrive. Before reading this book, you should already have read “groundswell” and “empowered“, two books that cover the idea that social media will transform the way that customers communicate with companies.
Gossieaux and Moran take this a step further and teach how one might leverage this throughout the organization. We all will have to learn this eventually. The book starts with a simple explanation: “Human 1.0″ is the way that people have interacted and worked together for thousands of years. Only recently (the last few decades) information technology has forced people into working in much more constrained ways.
Forget market segments. Like this: My Chapter on Relationships: The R in Social CRM. Michael Wu, Ph.D. is Lithium's Principal Scientist of Analytics, digging into the complex dynamics of social interaction and group behavior in online communities and social networks. Michael was voted a 2010 Influential Leader by CRM Magazine for his work on predictive social analytics and its application to Social CRM.He's a regular blogger on the Lithosphere's Building Community blog and previously wrote in the Analytic Science blog. You can follow him on Twitter at mich8elwu.
In my last post, I wrapped up my initial exploration on the subject of relationships. Today, I thought it would be a good idea to discuss why this is such an important topic and compile all my writings on relationships into a consolidated chapter. Relationship is Indicative of Influence The primary reason that I become interested in social relationships is because I wanted to better understand influence. Relationship is Indicative of True Loyalty The R in CRM is Relationship, not Record Community vs.
Kim Jong-il 'Exhibits Criminal Behavior Traits' North Korean leader Kim Jong-il apparently visited Hwanghae Province just before both the sinking of the South Korean Navy corvette Cheonan and artillery shelling of Yeonpyeong Island, while attending musical performances following both attacks, according to government intelligence. Hwanghae Province is the region in North Korea that is closest to the sites of the attacks. In March this year, Kim conducted one of his on-the-spot guidance tours at a cooperative farm in Sariwon, North Hwanghae Province around two weeks before the March 26 attack that sank the Cheonan.
On March 27, Kim attended a performance by the North Korean national symphony orchestra. On April 3, Kim attended a performance by the Mansudae Art Troupe. The North Korean leader's itinerary was similar around the time of the artillery attack on Yeonpyeong Island on Nov. 23. On Nov. 22, Kim inspected a fish farm in South Hwanghae Province and on Nov. 28 he attended a performance by the national symphony orchestra. Philip Zimbardo shows how people become monsters ... or heroes.