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Digital Devices Deprive Brain of Needed Downtime
siliconbits writes with an excerpt from NY Times: "Technology makes the tiniest windows of time entertaining, and potentially productive. But scientists point to an unanticipated side effect: when people keep their brains busy with digital input, they are forfeiting downtime that could allow them to better learn and remember information, or come up with new ideas."
Why do you think I run Windows? ::rimshot::
Living With a Nerd
NPR had a long thing on this the other day. Supposedly it kills our attention span. Or something, tl;dl.
THL phish sticks
Did Slashdot just advise us to cut back on Slashdot?
if it wasn't for http://xkcd.com/386/.
This is the very reason I don't have a cell phone
I met a gentleman last night who recently purchased a Droid phone and claimed that it's the first mobile phone that he's ever owned. When I asked him why he didn't own one before, he responded:
"I thought cell phones were only useful for buying drugs."
I think he also has a 5-digit slashdot user id
[Zoidberg] Look I'm contributing!
[Prof] Good news everyone! This news must come as NO surprise at all so it might surprise that this is news!
[Fry] I'm confused, should I be surprised I'm not surprised?
[Prof] Stop taking up my brain uptime, you fool!! And stop talking in this strangly slightly annoying yet entertaining stereotypical voice.
*People ask how can you manage that - I tell them it's a little secret called forethought or planning.
I usually tell them it's a little secret called "no friends".
Jesus had a UNIX beard.
"I thought cell phones were only useful for buying drugs."
There's an app for that.
Tic-Tac-Toe, Global Thermonuclear War, and relationships all have the same winning move.
I once heard a tale of someone who when faced with a boss who demanded updates every 15 minutes on what he was doing wrote a script which strung together meaningless management buzzwords in a vaguely sensible format and emailed them to his boss every 15 minutes.
a few weeks later he gets an award for being a team player and keeping his boss in the loop.
It's not like the boss ever reads them after the first day.
Just set a couch as your screen background...
I think a study should be done that correlates smartphone ownership with time spent per bathroom break. I think you all know why.
Life is rarely fair. Cherish the moments when there is a right answer.
Ahh - Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
This one's tricky. You have to use imaginary numbers, like eleventeen... --Hobbes
Uhhh yeah...it must be the sitting-on-the-sofa-collecting-your-thoughts-for-a-few-minutes lobby, releasing a biased report to support their industry.
So....that would be IKEA? :)
I never trusted those swedish bastards! Curse them and their delicious meatballs!
People replying to my sig annoy me. That's why I change it all the time.
Well, and Barbie for the girl friends. How do you know my system so well?
That's because his boss also had a script, which tested the updates to see if they included meaningless management buzzwords in a vaguely sensible format.