Thursday, July 24, 2008

that explains the anklet

I must have been tagged.

You too Coco.

Steven takes his shotAnd others.

You know who you are.

(Just not how you got there).

From Gizmodo:
Researchers Create Computer Models of Staggering Drunks to Aid City Planning
A team of Welsh scientists have spent long nights camped out in a busy nightlife neighborhood of Cardiff from 11pm to 3am with one goal—studying the way Welshmen stagger when they're shitfaced in order to build an accurate computer model of the phenomenon. They aim to use their data to help city planners design streets that are safer for late night revelers.
Click through for animated gifs comparing crowd walking behavior as a function of sobriety (or rather, lack thereof).

The original article is in the New Scientist, but it requires a subscription to access.

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