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Earlier this morning, Justin pointed me to a CNN article about Late-Night television viewers and their knowledge about politics. Of the three shows considered (hosted by Stewart, Letterman or Leno), viewers of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show scored the best.

Sixty percent of The Daily Show viewers who took the quiz answered all of the questions correctly. This is compared to forty-nine percent of the Leno and Letterman viewers and fourty-two to fourty percent who read the newspaper and watch network television four nights a week.

Stewart was also on the OReilly Factor earlier in September. OReilly had some interesting comments about Stewarts influence on the election which are included in the CNN article.

seele :: Sep.29.2004 :: General, Humor, Politics :: No Comments »

Here are some awesome pictures of a sidewalk artist drawing in perspective. Double perspective. He draws the images in perspective of his viewers so that the images look in perspective to a relative plane. Its pretty crazy stuff and best explained by just looking at them.

His artwork is so realistic and perfectly in perspective with the perspective of the camera I had to look twice when I was first looking at the images. In some of them, it was hard to believe it is sidewalk chalk and not sculptures and statues in the ground.

seele :: Sep.25.2004 :: General, Life :: 1 Comment »

[Si]drgn mlp’d this Wired article on SILC today. Continue Reading »

seele :: Sep.24.2004 :: General, Subculture, Technology :: No Comments »

I dont know how many of you work with CVS but it is a useful tool to maintain document history and work in a multi-developer domain. When it works right. Continue Reading »

seele :: Sep.24.2004 :: General, KDE/Kubuntu, Work :: 1 Comment »

User Instinct recently posted a usability study on KDE 3.3. Several months ago, they had also posted a usability study on GNOME 2.6. Continue Reading »

seele :: Sep.21.2004 :: General, HCI, KDE/Kubuntu :: 1 Comment »