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Nereus writes "The BBC News is reporting on an interesting new software product developed by three undergraduates at the University of Aberdeen [and the Universities of Hull and Sheffield]. The University Leisure and Lifestyle Manager (ULL) is the ultimate student companion, helping in all aspects of life; from choosing text books, to getting home from the pub after a few too many. Hopefully it won't put an end to the traditional student pastime of waking up on a park bench after a night out, with a traffic cone on your head..."
Whatever happened to people using their heads to make smart decisions on how to handle their day to day existence?
Geez.
The older I get, the less I like everyone else.
Handy stuff. I know when I'm piss drunk, I have no trouble at all operating a smart phone/PDA.
Some nice ideas, but I've never had any choice in what textbooks to get, so I've got no use for that little widget. And how's it gonna actually give me feedback on essays beyond the spell/grammar check capability already in MS Word/ OO Write? The whole thing strikes me as being a jack of all trades, master of none.
... you should actually use your own brain!
+1 Insightful, -1 Troll. What can I say, I'm an Insightful Troll.
My pet hypothesis is that whatever is considered sexy is "what rich people look like." For most of human history, being fat was a sign of wealth (and therefore health and fertility) because only rich people consistently had enough to eat. But these days, it takes wealth to be thin -- fattening food is much cheaper than healthy food, and the majority of jobs at any level on the socieconomic scale involve little or no physical labor, so you have to have time and money to exercise. (The part about the jobs is particularly true for women, which may be why the worship of thin-ness is more pronounced in females, although it increasingly occurs in both sexes.) And since wealth is always a sign of reproductive fitness, it's always sexy.
The correlation between ignorance of statistics and using "correlation is not causation" as an argument is close to 1.