the cupboard under the stairs

A survey of the 1.9 million accounts on AshleyMadison.com, a dating site for people looking to cheat on their spouses, rounds up the most common occupations among the would-be infidelitous:

For Women:
1. Teachers 
2. Stay-at-home Moms
3. Nurses
4. Administrative Assistants
5. Real Estate Agents

For Men:
1. Physicians
2. Police Officers
3. Lawyers
4. Real Estate Agents
5. Engineers

At whereismymilkfrom.com, you can enter the code from a carton of (cow’s) milk and find out where that dairy product came from. I know, I know, “Duh, a cow!” — but like, what farm. I only drink veggie milks myself now (almond, soy, coconut, rice) but this seems like a helpful tool for others. When I read the copy on the website like “Just go get the milk out of your fridge!” I hear Dr. Steve Brule’s voice, and the word “dummy!” at the end.

Note: people from the philippines, don’t even try. it doesn’t work for us.

bmac:

Great piece, looks like they’re going to make it. Pandora may become as ubiquitously available as AM/FM, but its user block simply cannot be equal. They’re living in a world of iPods and Sirius/XM, not to mention other websites like Slacker - the competition is just to great to be the only way people listen to music.

Note: This service is not available in the Philipines (which sucks) unless you try some hacks (VPN, etc.) Pandora is based on the Music Genome Project:

The Music Genome Project, created in January 2000, is an effort founded by Will Glaser, Jon Kraft, and Tim Westergren to “capture the essence of music at the fundamental level” usingalmost 400 attributes to describe songs and a simple mathematical algorithm to organize them. The company Savage Beast Technologies was formed to run the project.

A given song is represented by a vector (a list of attributes) containing approximately 150 “genes” (analogous to trait-determining genes for organisms in the field of genetics). Each gene corresponds to a characteristic of the music, for example, gender of lead vocalist, level of distortion on the electric guitar, type of background vocals, etc. Rock and pop songs have 150 genes, rap songs have 350, and jazz songs have approximately 400. Other genres of music, such as world and classical music, have 300–500 genes. The system depends on a sufficient number of genes to render useful results. Each gene is assigned a number between 1 and 5, in half-integer increments. (more here)