Couldn't resist checking out this web tool featured by Andrew Sullivan in a post titled "Your Browser Knows Your Gender."Here's the idea:
Based on a scan of your internet surfing history, the iGadget determines whether you're a woman or man.
My results?
Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 2%
Likelihood of you being MALE is 98%
Seems this algorithm writer hasn't got the memo: Interest in national security can be pink. One suspects that in this algorithm all law, all politics -- all news, for that matter -- is gender-coded blue.
Reminds me of that freshman-year essay on which the prof had scrawled his highest compliment:
A -- you write with masculine vigor!
(credit for photo of pinkened White House)
