!$title$! Really!

And here’s the corresponding !$text$!:

This thing even appears on the WordPress dashboard:
WP iPhone title

Well, the WordPress for iPhone tool seems to be a little buggy if it creates such dummy posts – see for instance at aptgetupdate and their trackbacks…

PS: No, I don’t have an iPhone and don’t want one, either. At least not at all costs.

The News


Alternative medicine does not help

Not even the finally arrested Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadžić:

“Until he was tracked down and arrested by Serbian special forces last night, Dr Karadzic was working as an alternative medicine specialist in a clinic in the suburb of New Belgrade using the false name of Dr Dragan Dabic.”
(Times Online)

Porn spammers can continue

After a court has dismissed the lawsuit by lesb–, erm, residents of Lesbos against all lesbians (that is, gay women) calling themselves lesbians, porn spammers – no matter if they spam via e-mail or blog comments – can continue their profession without fear of lawsuits from Lesbos for using this word.

None of the porn spammers could be reached for comment.

Music Quiz 24

Welcome to the latest music quiz…

1.) Which song title (by whom) is displayed here?

Musik-Quiz 24.1

Rasant gelöst von juliaL49: “Rip out the wings of a butterfly” von HIM.


2.) Welcher Songtitel (von wem) wird hier dargestellt?

Musik-Quiz 24.2

symBadisch gelöst: “Gamma Ray” – ein alter Song von Birth Control und ein neuerer von Beck.

Bild von Burkhard Heuel-Fabianek/Wikipedia


3.) Und welcher Songtitel ist das?

Musik-Quiz 24.3

Gelöst von Pierre Markuse: “Sultans Of Swing” von Dire Straits.

Danke fürs Mitmachen und bis nächsten Dienstag…

Percentage calculation problems or The shrunken bodies

Statista is always worth a look if you’re no statistics hater (and speak German). Today’s stats of the day about the question “How tall are you?” (» filtered by sex), and 22358 adult Germans had been asked.

The unfiltered overview shows 2.9% for the really big ones (to which I also belong, thanks to my 190 cm), rounded on top of the bars for clarity:

Statista Körpergröße 1
(190 cm and taller: 2.9%)

You can also enter a number to compare to – and the result is:

Statista Körpergröße 2
Your reply: 190.0 cm
98.0% are smaller than 190 cm.
2.0% are like you taller than 190 cm.

Oops, did 0.9% of the people suddenly shrink? Or how else could this result be explained then? And why “are like you taller than 190 cm”?

If I enter 189 cm for testing purposes, I get: “96.8% are smaller than you. 3.2% are taller than you.” So nobody is 189 cm tall? Are 0.3% 189 cm tall and 2.9% taller, or 1.2% 189 cm and 2.0% taller? For 154 cm, the numbers “2.2%/97.8%” are reported, basically matching the bar graph, but here, too, with the words “smaller” and “taller” without mentioning the size of exactly 154 cm.

Well, apparently there’s room for improvement… but the title still says “BETA”. Let’s see if the error report that I sent them (they got a special link for that) will have any effect.
:bigsmile: