February 16th, 2009 By Joshua Bolkan | News |  So Ironic Facial
Hair is a Bad Thing?   Graham Wiklund doesn't just want to know
how many hipsters are in a given area. He wants to know exactly
how much hipster funk they're giving off.  Wiklund is a
biochemistry student at Portland State University. And when
confronted with the “most hipster-dense place in PSU” he'd ever
seen, he decided to work out his frustrations with an equation
that would measure the hipster concentration of a given area.
To read Wicklund's full description of how this hip equation can
tell you exaclty how dense the asshatery around you is, go here
(pdf).  But here are some highlights from Wiklund's description
of his formula's evolution:    • Volume wouldn't necessarily be
a good unit to use in these calculations, as hipsters often
gather outside to smoke American Spirits on porches at house
shows, ride fixed-gear bikes, and other such activities.    • As
the amount of non-hipsters goes up, the numerator becomes
smaller and the overall c