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colorful candy-like swimmers in crowded china pool
Can you believe what you see? This man-made tide swimming pool in China’s Sichuan was crowded with thousands of swimmers cooling off in summer heat. Totally hilarious!!
Btw, this photograph is amazing! Love it!
Source: NBC news
when brown turns grey
Thom Browne has just launched it’s diffusion line Thom Grey at Barneys and selected retailers and I.T is carrying this new brand. Seems like this second line is J.Crew meets Banana Republic!? When the economy is still not looking very rosy, believe diffusion line is a way all the key brands weather the storm, am sure there are more coming up.
rollerskating in Mahattan
Sounds a bit old-school huh? Rollerskating, it’s almost nostalgic to me. But isn’t it awesome fun to be roller-skating in the middle of Mahattan open-air? It’s a great young creative collaboration between the High Line & Uniqlo! It lasts till 26 September 2011 only!
study: ie users have below average iq [updated]
A very interesting study by AptiQuant, a psychometrics consulting company, has recently published a study drawing the connection between a user’s choice of internet browser and their IQ.
“The results are really not that surprising. With just a look at the graphs in the report, it comes out pretty clear that Internet Explorer users scored lower than average on the IQ tests. Chrome, Firefox and Safari users had just a teeny bit higher than average IQ scores. [...] The continuous use of older versions of IE by millions of people around the world has often haunted web developers. This trend not only makes their job tougher, but has also pulled back innovation by at least a decade.“
On with innovation!
Update:
This story has raked in gazillions of hits, even to the point of being covered by big news corporations like BBC, CNN, Forbes and The Telegraph. But as it turns out – it was all a big prank… that fooled all IE and non IE users alike!
They kept going with the prank, publishing an update claiming that AptiQuant was threatened with a lawsuit by loyal IE users:
“Leonard Howard, the CEO of [AptiQuant] said that he has been receiving hate mail from IE users since yesterday. He said, “I just want to make it clear that the report released by my company did not suggest that if you use IE that means you have a low IQ, but what it really says is that if you have a low IQ then there are high chances that you use Internet Explorer.”
Can someone point us to the gullible sign?
That being said, bits of the prank remain true: developing sites to be compatible with all ancestral versions of IE is cumbersome. Bugger.
Thank you Sarah, for the tip.
amy RIP
Such a pity Amy Winehouse left us at age 27 on 23 July 2011. She has been inspiration to Adele, Lady Gaga and Duffy etc. Hope her song Rehab would be taken more seriously by the many out there.
