At a Girls Inc. event last weekend, I had the pleasure of running into someone I knew from college who had read my parking rant and gave me this Order of the Stick cartoon about a thwarted wizard attempting to recover her mount, which I recommend to anyone who has ever been frustrated with a parking lot attendant.

I recently expressed skepticism over specific claims of differences between men's and women's brains, including that women use 20,000 words per day, while men use 7,000. This has now been debunked by Mark Liberman at Language Log in a series of posts:

• < a href="http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003419.html">Neuroscience in the service of sexual stereotypes
• Sex-linked lexical budgets
• Sex and speaking rate

I found out about these posts from the always interesting Mind Hacks blog.

Men, Women, and Sex

Recently, I ridiculed the idea that men think about sex two thousand times as often as women do (once a minute vs. once every couple of days). According to my highly scientific polls, 52% of men think about sex at least once a minute while more women think about sex every few days (27%) than do one or more times per minute (18%). The majority of women (55%), however, think of sex an intermediate amount. It looks like the sex sex difference is greater than I thought but less than the article implied. Still, I'm going to invest in divorce futures.

Beyond Satire

I also had a survey on whether to run personal items in this blog. Most people said yes, although a few would prefer that I stick to the "beyond satire" theme. For those people, you can use this bookmark or this feed to only get items tagged beyond satire. Let me know if you have any problem with them.