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Name: The Rt Hon KJP
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[ mathematical art ]
for someone who appreciates this sort of stuff. That narrows down the field somewhat.. YKWYA
[ thought for the day ]
A self-addressed envelope would be addressed "envelope".
[ as if you needed proof that American sports fans are brain-dead..]
Half-wit crim asks for his 30 year sentence to be extended to 33 years so the number matches his sports hero Larry Bird's player number. It is not clear if the US really should gaol retarded people.
[ do not mix breakfast cereals ]
this extremely bizarre patent application covers mixing two dry cereals. This is seriously weird.
[ hint ]
if you want to take covert photos, turn off the flash and red-eye reduction. cos if you don't its a real giveaway....
[ avian flu is almost a pandemic ]
I am not at all confident that we can avoid this one. World Health Organisation now admits that avian flu is very close to becoming a pandemic.. and if it does, it will kill millions. This is serious. Very.
[ now with PodCasting ]
Out Of The Box now includes podcasting. It's an experiment to see if the "2 year rule" still applies (the lag between k running a session on something and it becoming mainstream in education).
http://kenjprice.podomatic.com/ is the podcast blog, http://kenjprice.podomatic.com/rss2.xml is the RSS podcast feed.
[ Build a face ]
Go on. Try to duplicate the face of that person you saw on the street corner.
http://www.ngc.tv/play/games/JOMGame/index.asp .
[ a vocabulary to describe relationships between people ]
As proof that coders understand humans, (or perhaps evidence to the contrary), this wonderful schema describing relationships has been developed. RDF included. No purchase necessary.
http://vocab.org/relationship/
[ Do the tones of your phone number play a copyrighted piece of music? ]
This should get the copyright people wound up.
When you dial a phone number, you can hear the numbers generate a series of musical tones. What if these just happen to be a copyrighted song?http://www.magnus-opus.com/number_check.html lets you check. Strangely Magnus Opus seems to have copyrighted a large number of digit sequences. About 18,446,744,070,000,000,000 in fact.
And of course if YOUR phone number generates a Magnus Opus tune, you either buy a license from them or discontinue using the number. Excellent!
"Warning: All of the melodies contained within the Magnus-Opus series are protected by copyright. You may inadvertently be in breach of international copyright law by using a telecommunications device (telephone, mobile telephone, modem and other internet devices) to transmit and perform one of the Magnus-Opus melody series."
The site even has a "Top 100" . I think the creator, Mr Nigel L W Helyer, P.O. Box 195 Balmain, NSW 2041 Australia, deserves congratulations for this wonderful use of copyright legislation.
You might also be amused that the Harley Davidson motorcycle company applied in the mid-1990's to register the distinctive sound of its V-twin engine as a trademark of the company (though they withdrew the application some years later)
[ Jamacian man makes a hat out of his own (living) hair ]
[ Barry Humphries writes about his youth in Melbourne ]
From an era where writing style did not need to be florid, and where precision was important. Between Humphries and Clive James, there is a wealth of history in non-historic Australian writing. Wish I could write like that.
[ Nightingale Floors ]
Floors that sing like a bird.
[ lets get serious now girls and boys ]
Bird flu. This could be very very big. Where are our key scientists? What do we expect when we tell kids that running laps around a athletics track can find a cure for MS? Maybe we ought to stop this nonsense and point out that if you want to help find a cure for cancer, MS, meningococcal disease or bird flu, at least some people are going to have to learn some damn science.
[ welcome to Link City ]
Baby cages: keep little kiddies safe in a nice comfy steel cage
Free energy: Build your own tornado and harness its energy.
The energy released by a large hurricane can exceed the energy consumption of the human race for a whole year, and even an average tornado has a power similar to that of a large power station. If only mankind could harness that energy, rather than being at its mercy. Louis Michaud, a Canadian engineer who works at a large oil company, believes he has devised a way to do just that, by generating artificial whirlwinds that can be controlled and harnessed. He calls his invention the “atmospheric vortex engine”.
SCRABBLE game on paper: print, cut out,. play. Just avoid windy or wet locations. Disposable.
A 737 plane painted to look like a giant salmon
Puerto Rican town builds landing strip with support of mayor... landnig strip for UFOs , that is.
Olovi Nikkanoff, one of Denmark's professional Santa Clauses, says his reindeer died of shock as fighter planes flew low overhead. Flight data showed the jets had been in the area at the time, and a vet concluded that their deafening roar had caused Rudolph to have heart failure. Do you need to know the reindeer's name? Yes, it was Rudolph.
In gaol? Embarrassed by the fact? For $10, 'Friends Beyond the Wall' takes your prison visiting room photo, crops you and your loved one out of it, and digitally inserts you into one of dozens of exotic backgrounds. Now the family will think you are in Brazil, on holidays (with a tattooed thug called Chopper). Business opportunity exists providing same service for people living in Canberra.
Get a certificate of ownership for your car, signed by Colin Powell. What more could you want?
Tonight the IgNobel Prizes are awarded. No news at time of writing, but congratulations to Ig Nobel sweeper Roy Glauber who has just won a Nobel Prize in physics!
For the past ten years, Roy has been a vital participant in the annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony. By spontaneous tradition, the Ig audience throws paper airplanes at the stage during the entire ceremony (and the people on stage waft some of them right back). The airplanes accumulate so rapidly that it is necessary to have two people spend the entire ceremony sweeping them off. Harvard physics professor Roy Glauber has nobly, and stylishly, swept the stage for ten long years. Today, October 4, 2005, he was announced as the winner of a Nobel Physics Prize.
At the 1998 cermony, Roy also delivered a moving testimonial about Deepak Chopra, who won that year's Ig Nobel Physics Prize "for his unique interpretation of quantum physics as it applies to life, liberty, and the pursuit of economic happiness."
My Science Project: how many condoms can you wear at once? Methodlcal inquiry shows the upper limit to be at least 600. Well, the practical implications are huge (...) and I would think very dangerous. And without purpose. Really?
Though the photo showing for illustrative purposes the effect, suggests it would be an extremely effective contraceptive measure (as a result of a social rather than a prophylactic mechanism).
[ random ]
Some times, places and people disappear from our lives forever. Some we want never to see again. Some we long to re-meet, relive or revisit.
And others are always with us. Always. They matter. Nothing changes that. [L]
[ today and other bad days ]
"Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied." Douglas Adams.
[ home of the brave? ]
[ etymology of offensive words ]
H2G2's "The Origins and Common Usage of British Swear-words"
