@icelight: i ain't assuming nothing of the sort, i just don't think the test is any good for anything at all because it really can't tell the difference between overly intelligent and overly stupid prose. i also wanted to use the huge differences between the overwrought (melville) and the overly simple (hemingway) to…

@bananafishtoday: I even made a goddamn graph. Few things make my blood boil like people trying to use statistics to perpetuate or justify racism. I doubt these OkCupid people mean any harm, but read The Bell Curve by Murray and you'd be just as angry.

I googled the Coleman-Liau test the post author used to gauge the writing skills of the OkCupid users. The test script I found lets you plug in urls of txt files. So I grabbed some off Project Gutenberg. Descending by difficulty:

@dallasmay: Oh wow, I never knew that. Does put it into perspective.

@MarcusMaximus: No, sorry, no "bigger" on the list...

The last two charts are not measurements of people's reading levels, as some commenters are suggesting. The Coleman-Liau Index, and tests like it, measure the reading level required to understand a text. The graphs don't say, for instance, that Christians read (or write!) below an 8th grade level. They say that what…

@Nitesh Singh: They added magic.

@Nitemancometh: No way. Just buy a pair of headphones with a six-foot cord, and the setup will double as a jumprope.

@John Eusebio: Video playback on a mobile device is a gimmick. A one-inch touchscreen is a must-have feature.

@Robert Cambridge: Kinda. According to Giz, at least, your plugs were changed in '47 to have fuses. WWII caused a copper shortage in the UK and wiring outlets in series and skipping fuse boxes saved copper. So the people in charge knew better by then, but the first set of British outlets were just as bad as ours.

@semi-renaissance man: Yeah, they did. Two, actually. This one works while wet and doesn't zap you if you jam stuff in it. And this one takes the opposite approach, by automatically filtering people who instinctively jam stuff into electrical sockets out of the gene pool. Good parent/bad parent?

Children (and probably some adults) like to stick things in places they shouldn't go. This safety plug concept should eliminate that (for outlets at least).

@aek8: Oh my god I heart you.

@Justin: Corporations are designed to create profit and increase the value of their shares. Governments are supposed to collect money from the public and spend it for a public good. We don't need less government, we need better government.

I read in the source link, one of the creator's classmates wants to make a real-life version of this. I'm not sure how exactly that would work, but if there's any cats involved, I'm boycotting it.

@Headlocker: ATT is the only carrier that's blocking non-Market apps and sideloading, as far as I know. But there's already a one-click root to get around that, no custom ROM required.

I hate, hate, hate everyone who insists on messing up Android. The problem is, most consumers probably don't know or care, so the carriers and phone manufacturers can get away with it.

@alexLmx6: "Lower Fifth? We'll be like turkeys on Thanksgiving down there!"

In other news from 31st century New York, digging on the 2nd Ave subway line has just reached 14th Street.

Glad to see this reposted. Honestly, due to the quality of comments here, Giz is the only site where I regularly read comments or post comments. Too many sites only care about quantity. Or don't care at all. (There's a very good reason the NY Times hides away its comment sections!) But at Giz, I'll often go back to…