Miss Cellania
Morning Cup of Links: Geography of Personality
by Miss Cellania - September 24, 2008 - 2:55 AM
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Research on the “geography of personality” finds that certain regions of the US correlate with certain personality traits. Some traits feed into stereotypes; others don’t.
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Stop for a minute and admire the beauty of Scotland. You’ll thank me after a few pages.
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9 Mental Math Tricks. I’ll never be able to remember all of these, but I so admire the beautiful patterns of math.
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Wario Land. Now this is advertising! You’ll enjoy it even if you never play video games.
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The show must go on… even if the studio is on fire! That’s what you call dedication -or maybe attention deficit disorder.
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Watch a glass blower make a cat. He makes it look easy, but you know it’s anything but.
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5 Things I Learned At the End of the Oregon Trail. Not the video game, the real Oregon Trail, ending in Oregon.

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Comments (4)

  1. “He makes it look easy, but you know it’s nothing but.”

    I think you mean that it’s ANYTHING but.

    posted by Bassman on 9-24-2008 at 8:52 am

  2. Yep, that’s what I meant! Thanks, Bassman. I’ll change that.

    I hear (and use) east Kentucky idioms all day, then sometimes find it hard to switch for the written word.

    posted by Miss Cellania on 9-24-2008 at 9:12 am

  3. The pictures of Scotland are GORGEOUS.

    posted by Brittany on 9-24-2008 at 11:13 am

  4. I tried reading the mental math tips one, but had to stop in disgust after reading the multiply by 11 entry. Instead of just saying “Add a 0, then add the original number” it had the most convoluted, idiotic route to take, that as you did say, nobody could remember.

    posted by Kevin on 9-25-2008 at 2:00 am

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