April 27, 2005
Watching TV Makes You Smarter.
(From the Sunday New York Times Magazine.) Adapted from Steven Johnson's soon-to-be-published book ''Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter.''
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Dang it, I Just saw that petebest posted this link in this thread. Sorry. But maybe enough of you folks didn't see it there and will think it's of interest....
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If not for loads of TV watching I would know nothing about low, low, 2.9% percent APR financing. anybody know what that is?
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I would like TV more if it weren't for the ridiculous amount of advertising. It seems to get worse every day. I gave up my cable connection over a year ago, and haven't missed it one bit. (I doubt I'll miss it even if the last remaining torrent aggregating sites were to shut down.) My TV is now a purely videogaming device.
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APR means "Annual Percentage Rate," or the amount of interest you will pay on your auto loan through the dealer.
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The article, minus the need for registration.
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Gracias, mexican.
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How am I supposed to get my TV quota in while everyone keeps on sending me email?
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Dual screens, Skrik. Train your left eye to read emails from your computer monitor and your right eye to watch TV. Problem solved.
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Or get one of those WebTV thingies. Now we can read our email and watch TV without suffering the tyranny of movement ever again!
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I think it's a load of crap-ola. Unless the author is using "smarter" in the sense of "not smarter". Now if you'll excuse me, I've got some elitin' I need to do. You probably wouldn't understand . . .
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Up your butt with a cocoanut, elito-frito!
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Fes can't even spell choachoanutt. What a moran.