October 31, 2011: Afternoon
- Everyone thinks women fall in love more easily, but a study of college students finds the opposite.
- Lament of an aging professor observing his own brain slowing down, with a killer conclusion.
- University of Chicago hosts Jersey Shore academic conference.
- Funded by Jeff Bezos, the 10,000-year clock will power itself and synchronize timekeeping with the sun.
- Halloween stories found in a hotel.
- For the most part around America, vampires are coming to get you.
- Chart of contemporary vampires.
- TMN's Rosecrans Baldwin explains why he's a Halloween Scrooge.
- Technical critique of the titles for Delicatessen explains how to achieve "that cannibal quality."
- Technical detail wonderland: how to run sound for a Michael Bublé show.
- Steve Jobs's final words, in a wonderful eulogy by his sister, novelist Mona Simpson: "Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow."
- Slang observed on Twitter.
- Information density of tweets is comparable to that of Hamlet, so quit saying Twitter dilutes language.
- Pros and cons of using the internet, as taught to students in 1996.