And sadly necessary.

Good job!

Self-Esteem Prosthesis.

+Also one of the reasons women love shoes so much.

No matter how fat she gets, her shoes will still fit; like that faithful Yellow Labrador.

This post could use a WAY better title, like:

"Big Boobs and Other Curiosities, The Interaction Experiments of Nicholas Guéguen"

'The Goad of Small Things', erm... ??? -almost did not read this post!

Stupid?
or just suicidal?

Better not be rumored to be working for a French security firm or Dennis Kucinich!

@Frau, @Red Bunny and @LisaL: Unfortunately, it costs about $50k to get one of those Belyaev Expirment docile foxes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzTcmE-pMLU

Garisson Keillor is quite successful.

And he looks like the product of non-consensual sex between Frankenstein and a Bull Moose and Moe Howard.

As a matter of fact, most billionaires are not particularly attractive; some look like total crap.

Malcolm Gladwell looks weird.

So does Stephen J Dubner from Freakonomics.

There are always radio, writing, computer programmer, and stock trader jobs.

They don't require much interaction, or people seeing your face.

Next time, buy a Tyvek auto-painter's suit, a head-sock, and borrow someone's fencing mask.

They also make high-velocity, long-range, shoot 'n' run sprays for this type of thing, inst. of what tequila-man did.

On a related note, there is nothing like seeing a gigantic wasp nest that looks like a beachball-sized DeathStar.

The NYPD has been doing ~kinda-something similar.

But in their case, they just entrap people into copping pleas by illegally searching their person.

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It was on WNYC 93.9's show with Brian Lehrer(?).

-Basically, there is some sort of law that says possession of under a certain amount of MJ is not-prosecuted.

The cops pose an innocent question, get the person to pull it out of their pocket to confirm,

and then Arrest them for Public Display of a Controlled/Illegal Substance.

-In many cases, they just go to the area and stick their hands in peoples' pockets and down their pants.

These are frequently people who don't have the time or resources to fight it in court.

I ABSOLUTELY agree. +esp on surfing vs. emails

This type of thing is essential for what similar scientists have termed "Background Processing".
-You get a problem in-mind, do about as much work as possible on it, get to a stopping or block -point, and then,

You go out and do something Completely unrelated, play a game, an FPS, take a walk, do something mindless, field-strip and rebuild a handgun like Colm Meaney in "Layer Cake", etc.

-And then later on, your subconscious eventually returns its solution to you that it has produced while the rest of your mind was 'out to lunch'.

As long as it's not excessive or non-restorative, this is how many problems get solved.
-Edison himself used to background process with cat-naps.
I'm sure other guys like Tesla, Westinghouse, Marconi, DaVinci did similar things.

These studies prove that you're not going to get your best work out of people if you treat them line-deployed piecework machines.

They need Both mental-health and background-processing breaks.

Too bad management are some of the dumbest people in every corp.

I guess the lord giveth and the lord taketh away.

We have KhanAcademy and MIT-OCW,

but we also have 4chan and TMZ

You mean the English Language, American publisher version.

Maru has 2 books out here: http://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp/guest/cgi-bin/wshoseaohb.cgi?KEYWORD=%82%DC%82%E9%82%C5%82%B7%81%42&AREA=02

Aw, man! -This is so mainstream now!!

Now if they could only make Underwater R/C sharks for pissing off real ones.

@Craig, 5:55am: Agreed

@Nyetwerke: Or in the lower addup, the Farting Charge is part of "Food Subtotal"

,hrm...