i don’t pay for many apps, but this… this i’d pay for. perhaps alot. comes out sept.

thought this post was interesting. the chinese, it seems, are forgetting how to write. the poster cites his experience in china mentioning that many educated elite can’t remember how to write relatively simple lexical chunks like “sneeze” or 噴嚏, or even “goodbye” 再見. what they do is what i noticed flare doing (although he has the excuse of not being raised there): referring to their cellphone.

acoording to the latimes, dysgraphia, or forgetting how to write, is most common among the young tech heavy crowd. why attempt to remember how the complex stroke pattern goes when you can just look it up on your phone?

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a chinese company is looking to hire US comp sci grads to work in shanghai, but the grads must first take an IQ test and show they’re IQ is 125+. US companies aren’t allowed to require applicants to take a written IQ test, even though some companies make applicants take a test that is very similar to an IQ test. the funny/practical/non-pc part of this is that the company only hires chinese applicants that demonstrate an IQ of 140 or above.

The lower IQ threshold for new U.S. graduates reflects the fact that the pool of U.S. talent available to the company is smaller than the pool of Chinese talent, Bleum said.

ouch. who would have imagined that the chinese would be giving americans the benefits of affirmative action?

so. “are you dumb?”

we’re into 2010 and this and roomba is the best we can do? let me know when we make one that changes diapers and cooks.

What the hell is going on over here? Snow is making ppl crazy. Rumors of 10 ppl being taken to the hospital from the UAH shooting. this is the 2nd school shooting in two weeks. the first one happened at a middle school.

Update: 3 dead. Shooter was a faculty member who may have been denied tenure this morning. Victims all faculty.

“Chinese company Hybrid Kinetic Motors announced plans Thursday to construct a new green vehicle manufacturing plant in south Alabama, bringing 5,000 jobs to the state.

“Physicians will not be bullied into bankruptcy. Our system needs reform, but what’s being hammered out in Washington is not the answer.

Two weeks ago the Mayo Clinic shocked the nation when it closed the doors of one of its Arizona clinics to patients on Medicare. Just this past June President Obama himself praised Mayo as a model of medical efficiency noting that Mayo gives “the highest quality care at costs well below the national norm.” If Mayo feels compelled to walk away from this government-run program, others will surely follow. The nation must understand why.”

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