Overheard Online

The set of stuff mathematicians like includes coffee, Rubik’s Cubes, saying things are trivial, being proud of the uselessness of one’s work, and the prefix “co-”. (So what is “ffee”? Okay, there’s another thing mathematicians like — bad jokes.)
God Plays Dice on Mathematicians

So Richard [Dawkins] and PZ [Myers], it’s time to let other people be the messengers for science. This is not about censoring your ideas and positions, but rather being smart, strategic, tactical, and ultimately effective in promoting science rather than your own personal ideology, books, or blog.
Framing Science on Evolution Representatives

Social media including ustream, Qik, Twitter, Ning, Facebook, and your blog are the MOST important things you can do to grow and market a startup company I’m convinced. Instead of hiring a PR firm I suggest hiring bloggers and social active folks.
Jason Calacanis on Social Media

We need to seriously knock this off.

I logged into SocialThing and saw that a friend posted a link about a neat architectural concept. I was about to reply, until I saw that I couldn’t. What I would have been replying to, was his Facebook status, which was really, a Twitter post, piped over to Facebook, and slurped into SocialThing.

It has gotten out of control. How do we fix this?
Eric Rice on Social Networks

So maybe, as most people in San Francisco, I could become a vegan who buys only sustainably grown vegetables and fair trade products, and bikes around town on his way to anti-war protests, while being an insufferable prick (I realize I may be achieving the latter without doing the former).
In Theory on San Francisco

In short: men focus, women sample. A topic of conversation comes up and the guy wants to analyze it fully, drilling down to the tiniest detail and debating the pros and cons, while the girl wants to use the topic as a springboard to explore related topics.
Roissy on Conversation