Our sources reliably inform us that in a knee-jerk reaction to the iPhone 4 antenna problems, Steve Jobs has decided that Apple need a new, friendlier brand that will appeal to soccer moms and the everyman. He has decided to ditch the corporate, stark greys and Lucida/Myriad fonts, and replace them with friendly pinks...
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Who’s the most masculine 1980s action star? There’s one easy way to tell – with Google. We searched for the names of six movie stars on Google, to see how many results were found when their names were combined with two masculine and two feminine words. In addition, we performed the same searches with...
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You knew it was coming, didn’t you? After our posts on popular words in music and common words in film titles (and movie tag lines), it was inevitable that we’d eventually cover common words in the titles of video games. So here it is. We like being predictable. Well, not too predictable. Squid balloon. We...
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Thanks to the hard work of Wikipedia users, we are able to bring you a startling new graph that highlights (pun intended) which hair colors are most popular among characters from the TV show The Simpsons. Our revelations reveal that, contrary to popular belief, brown seems to be more common than yellow. In another...
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Following our previous posts (Most Common Words in Album Names and Most Common Words in Movie Tag Lines) we thought it only right to apply the same analysis to movie titles. So that’s what we did, using data from IMDB. From this analysis, we see that a cliched title for a love movie would be...
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Before I go any further: yes, I only used the word knob in the title because it sounds good. Actually, this post is about buttons. But buttons aren’t funny. Hence, knob. We took the list of best-selling video game consoles, and plotted the number of buttons on the controller/joystick from each console against the...
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