How geeks measure the world

Found a fun article over att wired.com today, it's about some (fun) geeky ways to measure the world. I will attach a few extracts from the original article. So read on.

Milliscobles (Tweeting activity)
Yeah, another Twitter one. Hold on, this one gets complicated, so I’m going to let Followcost.com explain:
“A person’s follow cost is calculated in terms of milliscobles, named after technology personality and prolific Twitterer Robert Scoble.
One milliscoble is defined as 1/1000th of the average daily Twitter status updates by Robert Scoble as of 10:09 CST September 25, 2008. At that time, Scoble had tweeted 14,319 times in 675 days, for an average tweets per day of 21.21. Thus, one milliscoble is defined as 0.02121 tweets per day.”
Got that? Me neither. Apparently overall, I rate 181.21 milliscobles, though I’ve been up to shenanigans on Twitter lately, and have pushed my rating for my last 100 updates to 335.49 milliscobles. And I honestly don’t know if that’s good or bad.

Hyneman (mustache density)

I nearly called this the Burgundy, but a) Hyneman is geekier, and b) Ron Burgundy’s was too well trimmed to be a good indicator of density. 1 Hyneman is the density of Jamie Hyneman’s mustache in the first episode of Mythbusters. My attempted beard from earlier this year could only really be measured in milliHynemans, which is why I don’t have it anymore.

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