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Myers-Briggs

I just took a personality test. Here are the results:

ENTP: The Mad Scientist

The ENTP, like the ENTJ, is charismatic, outgoing, and intelligent. ENTPs are often quickwitted, clever, and genial; they typically display a highly organized, rational cognitive ability which makes them natural scientists and inventors.

ENTPs are creative, complex people who seek to improve their understanding of the natural world, usually by building armored fifty-story-tall robotic monsters with iron jaws and death-ray eyes, or by creating genetically mutated plagues that spread unstoppably across the land, turning all who are contaminated into mindless zombie drones. They are less likely to want to conquer the world than to destroy it utterly, reducing it to nothing but slag and rubble–though this is often merely a side-effect of their pursuit of knowledge.

RECREATION: ENTPs enjoy recreational activities which challenge them physically and intellectually, such as water skiing and porting Linux to their iPods. They are also fond of collecting gadgets like combination cellpone/PDAs and orbiting arsenals of brain lasers, which they may port Linux to as well.

COMPATIBILITY: ENTPs and ENTJs make natural companions, as the one’s unspeakable hunger for power complements the other’s unspeakable hunger for knowledge. They do not generally build successful relationships with ESFJs, as ENTPs they are prone to behaving in inconveniently erratic ways, which pisses ESFJs off to no end; and because ENTPs simply do not know how to dress appropriately for formal occasions.

Famous ENTPs include Spencer Silver (the inventor of Post-It Notes), Robert Oppenheimer, and Dr. Jeckyll.

Yep, I’m the mad scientist. But, instead of destroying the world, I’m here to save it. (It’s worth a shot.)

Description from here.

Highly Targeted Spam?

It’s probably just an illusion, but I seem to be getting targeted spam lately.

How targeted spam might work: A crawler goes out and indexes an email and context. It then uses the context to generate a relevant spam title and keyword text that can then be matched to relevant messages from a database of client advertisements. The filter-defeating cocktail is then shuttled out to unwilling recipients across the web.

This is horrible. It’s like adsense for spam.

China Pollution update

Yay: To clean air, aid climate, China looks to end polluters’ perks.

I think central china could host some pretty huge solar farms. With the right technology, products, and education, solar power might be able to displace coal as the main source of energy.

Time Capsule

The University of Washington is preparing a time capsule.

The new capsule will be filled with digital media, carrying images of graffiti and video and focusing on “communication from a global perspective,” said Coma Te, a 20-year-old senior who was one of six students who created the new capsule. - Komo TV

Digital media? Will people still have the technology to play h.264 files 50 years from now?