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Ad Agency's Bizarre Steve Jobs Tribute Flash Mob Hits Seattle 75

Posted by timothy on Saturday October 06, 2012 @01:36PM from the suspect-he's-laughing dept.

theodp writes "File this one under it-seemed-like-a-good-idea-at-the-time. The Filter digital agency decided to show off their Steve Jobs spirit on the first anniversary of Jobs' death by declaring Friday Steve Jobs dress-up day. But where things really took a turn for the worse was in Seattle, where Filter employees took it to the local Apple Store where they formed a Flash Mob of Steve Jobs dress-alikes dancing Gangnam Style. Hey, even our best of intentions sometimes go awry."

Comment Re:Cue a gazillion posts... (Score 1) 433

by davidnm on Wednesday July 27, 2011 @02:33PM (#36899262) Attached to: MS-DOS Is 30 Years Old Today

I must be real old. Thank god I didn't register when I first started reading SlashDot or I'd be a 3 digit ID.

Girls Wired To Fear Dangerous Animals 224

Posted by samzenpus on Monday September 14, 2009 @01:00PM from the don't-play-with-venomous-things dept.

Foot-in-Mouth writes "New Scientist reports that girls are more "primed" to fear spiders and snakes, compared to boys. Infant boys and girls were shown pairs of images, a fearful and a happy object (such as a spider and a flower), measuring the boys' and girls' dwell times on the images. And in another similar test, normally happy objects (such as a flower) were given a fearful face and fearful objects were given a happy face. The results of these two tests suggested to the researcher that girls are not wired to fear spiders, for example, but rather girls are wired to more quickly learn to fear dangerous animals. The researcher, David Rakison at CMU, 'attributes the difference to behavioural differences between men and women among our hunter-gatherer ancestors. An aversion to spiders may help women avoid dangerous animals, but in men evolution seems to have favoured more risk-taking behaviour for successful hunting.' This reminds one of men's obsession with video games. Will game designers use this information to tweak video games for gender, either to make the games more or less frightening?"

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