Tag Archives: The World Around Us

Emoticon Styles (JP vs. US)

2007-05-25 – 5:23 pm

I found this interesting article about Americans and Japanese read faces differently. To cut the article short, they explain that Japanese culture seems to read the eyes for emotional cues while American culture seems to read the mouth.
Quick comparison of emoticons:
 US JP
 :-) ^_^
 x-) [...]

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Morality

2007-05-24 – 7:55 am

I ran across an interesting forum post on the Richard Dawkins website. It points to a morality quiz and a video of Jonathan Haidt talking about a way of thinking about morality that he has developed that helps him understand how different people (specifically conservatives) think about morality and why someone who is liberal has [...]

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Penguicon 5.0!

2007-04-28 – 11:19 am

Robin and I enjoyed Penguicon 5.0 last weekend. We went for the first time last year and we knew had to go again this year (and next year and the year after that and…).
In case you don’t know, Penguicon is a Linux geek, Sci-Fi fen, Anime aficionado, and filk listener convention. As [...]

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