Pink Worship  Natalie Angier recently wrote in the New York
Times about the role of pink noise in Hollywood Director cuts.
Pink noise (1/f or "one over" frequency) is similar to white
noise. The main difference between the two is that while white
noise is random while pink noise has some structure to it. White
noise looks like this:  Pink noise looks like this:  For more
see this review.  What you see in the pink noise is that there
is some order within the randomness. Pink noise walks a balance
between randomness and structure. Interestingly, pink noise
shows up in all kinds of natural phenomena. The rhythms of the
natural world are not wholly random, nor are they wholly
structured. Pink noise seems to be frequency of life.  The human
mind also seems to be governed by pink noise. In her article
Angier has us think about the human attention span during work.
If we plot how long we attend to various tasks throughout the
day--focusing now and moving to something else later--we see
pink noise emerge. Our attenti