What’s up, fellow grammar nerds! I read this article in the Guardian about exclamation points via Sullivan over the weekend.  The best bit in the piece:
Carol Waseleski’s unexpectedly diverting paper, Gender and the Use of Exclamation Points in Computer-Mediated Communication, found that women used more exclamation marks than men. But why was this?…[Waseleski] concluded that [...]

Short answer: Not actually that gay.
Long answer: Read on.
Facebook only allows you to view the past 7 days, so here’s the Google Trends graph for “swine flu” as a search term to keep in mind while looking at the data; the red line is where data collection begins:

How I did this gaynalysis
Using facebook’s friend filter, [...]

This is the diagram that my two quaid friends and I were discussing at 1369 in Central Square.  You overheard what we were talking about and started laughing.  I feel bad for not showing it to you before we bounced due to our inferior meteorological abilities and dearth of umbrellas.

As you can see in this [...]

Bea Arthur was all up in my newsfeed this weekend, mostly in response to her now being dead.
Here’s a statistical analysis of this activity.  Be forewarned: this is real science. Prepare yourself accordingly.
Figure 1. Number of newsfeed items referencing Bea Arthur’s death, 48 hrs following death

Twelve gay people have mentioned Bea Arthur’s death on Facebook, [...]

In honor of Day of Silence on Friday (today if you’re Tufts and ur doin it wrong), in which the gays give it a rest already and shut up for just one hot second, here’s a totally scientific study I did about why it seems like all of your friends are gay when you go on Facebook and check out your newsfeed. Turns out, the gays really like to use Facebook.