In the summer of 1996, shortly after my election as President of Noyes House at Vassar, I chose an AOL e-mail address that paid tribute to the position. For over eight years, it dutifully served as the best way to reach me. But now I have retired the address and embraced GMail, Google’s new free e-mail provider. So far I am enjoying it very much. It provides 1000 MBs of storage space and has very convenient features relating to conversation threads and the address book. So although "Noyes1" will continue to be my Instant Messenger ScreenName, from now on I can be reached at... on second thought, I'm not going to include my GMail address on this blog because I don't want to receive any spam. But if you want to know what it is, feel free to ask!

Thanks to Dave for passing this along. It’s a list of the 50 states ranked according to the average IQ score of its residents. Note who they voted for in last week’s election. Draw your own conclusions.

Rank State Average IQ 2004 Vote Result
>>1 Connecticut 113 Kerry
>>2 Massachusetts 111 Kerry
>>3 New Jersey 111 Kerry
>>4 New York 109 Kerry
>>5 Rhode Island 107 Kerry
>>6 Hawaii 106 Kerry
>>7 Maryland 105 Kerry
>>8 New Hampshire 105 Kerry
>>9 Illinois 104 Kerry
>>10 Delaware 103 Kerry
>>11 Minnesota 102 Kerry
>>12 Vermont 102 Kerry
>>13 Washington 102 Kerry
>>14 California 101 Kerry
>>15 Pennsylvania 101 Kerry
>>16 Maine 100 Kerry
>>17 Virginia 100 Bush
>>18 Wisconsin 100 Kerry
>>19 Colorado 99 Bush
>>20 Iowa 99 Bush
>>21 Michigan 99 Kerry
>>22 Nevada 99 Bush
>>23 Ohio 99 Bush
>>24 Oregon 99 Kerry
>>25 Alaska 98 Bush
>>26 Florida 98 Bush
>>27 Missouri 98 Bush
>>28 Kansas 96 Bush
>>29 Nebraska 95 Bush
>>30 Arizona 94 Bush
>>31 Indiana 94 Bush
>>32 Tennessee 94 Bush
>>33 North Carolina 93 Bush
>>34 West Virginia 93 Bush
>>35 Arkansas 92 Bush
>>36 Georgia 92 Bush
>>37 Kentucky 92 Bush
>>38 New Mexico 92 Bush
>>39 North Dakota 92 Bush
>>40 Texas 92 Bush
>>41 Alabama 90 Bush
>>42 Louisiana 90 Bush
>>43 Montana 90 Bush
>>44 Oklahoma 90 Bush
>>45 South Dakota 90 Bush
>>46 South Carolina 89 Bush
>>47 Wyoming 89 Bush
>>48 Idaho 87 Bush
>>49 Utah 87 Bush
>>50 Mississippi 85 Bush