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Culture Buzz Ayumu the chimp can remember both the location and order of a set of numbers in less time than it takes for most people to even process what we're seeing.
Culture Buzz Massimo Gammacurta designed these sweet looking candy numbers for a gift guide in Wired magazine. (via buzzbrewery.com)
Culture Buzz Another palindrome holiday! Gosh, I love numbers. Even better, it really has no special significance, except that it looks awesome written out. Oh, and all newspaper editors will make bad, punny headlines in their stories about the date.
Culture Buzz An intricate stats site for your sexual life. If you’re obsessed with your number, MyBlackBook will keep track of partners, sessions, positions and — oh, yes — STDs.
Culture Buzz French First Lady Carla Bruni’s revelation that she’s slept with 15 men (before marrying Nicolas Sarkozy) kicks off a discussion of sex and numbers. Given that this usually strikes me as a particularly American kind of obsession, it’s kinda nice to see the French and the Brits getting drawn in to the useless morality of the number question as well.
