Links of the Week (2008/16)

Kurz und bündig:

And a comic by xkcd:

buy techno?

Myriad


Myriad is a classical Greek name for the number 104 = 10,000. In modern English the word refers to an unspecified large quantity.
Wikipedia

So I’m looking forward to the next myriad of spam comments/trackbacks. Not.

Akismet 10004

If I wouldn’t change the name of the wp-trackback.php from time to time and block several typical words inside before they even reach Akismet (the spam filter running here), this number would already have been reached a long time ago…

:motz:

Fünf falsche Antworten :(

This is about a knowledge test in German…

…beim Wissenstest von Technology Review:

Sie haben 45 von 50 Fragen beziehungsweise 90 Prozent richtig beantwortet.

Grafische Auswertung nach Ressort:

Technology Review Wissenstest

Aber nicht schwindeln! :nono:

(Ein paar Fragen mussten sie offenbar seit dem Start am Donnerstag noch überarbeiten…)

Ein Gewinnspiel gibt’s übrigens auch (unabhängig von der Test-Teilnahme) – Hauptpreis: ein MacBook Air, Einsendeschluss: 15.5. –, sowie die Möglichkeit, drei Ausgaben der Technology Review kostenlos zu erhalten.

(via Sebbi)

A p and then 5 letters

Don’t ask me nothin’ about nothin’ i just might tell you the truth! Welcome to the search requests of the first half of April that led visitors here. (Search requests are highlighted in grey; I didn’t make them shorter or longer or up, I just translated the German ones.)

Do you want it? do you need it? can you feel it? tell me!

Pictures without panties? — No, not this time. –- Pictures.with.out.panties! — I said no! — i dont wanna read nothin — Read nothing? Then leave; all others, enjoy!

faith one two three tell me that you— Pardon? (Ah, there it is: a p and then 5 letters!) — do you believe in magic and i hope you do, you’ll always have a friend wearing big read shoes. — Oh c’mon, magic??

Can black magic stop your right thinking? — It apparently did already, since you believe such crap!

how to do black magic in oder to get my girl friend free information? — Free information can be found on the net without black magic, too. ;) Alright, you rather wanted free info about finding your girl. Why not join the woman interested in “black magic get the man you want”. But don’t mix it up with “what black magic to do to cause hate between two people” or even “free kill your self by black magick”!

magical oil that if i use lift me up to be wealthy? god lift me up where we belong! — Oh stop it, will you? — they call me a dreamer, i’m not the only one — well, that’s certainly true…

Jesus light switch God give me the power of thing like light on and off — You mean a light switch like that on the left? Erm, not a good idea, I think.

As you know, there are more than enough religious orientations, e.g. religion is the smile on your face, some wonder if there is an answer in the sound of the train or “birds tapping on windows? good or bad” or are even interested in a cosmic influence on the sexes. :roll: In a sense, they found the perfect place here…

god on planets? believe there a life after died in other planets? — I don’t think that the bible says something about that. Not that this had any meaning for me, but there are many believers. — kaka believes in god. — The football player? So what, just let him. But enoug about this topic for today.

I believe — What did I just say?!? — i’ve thrown up. — Ah. Yuck, yes, that doesn’t have much to do with religion anymore. Were you the guy who wanted to be so thorough with his search: ‘two girls one cup original’ original?

Let’s turn to other topics, shall we?

has a year 50 or 52 weeks in mathematics?
the science of lottery prediction?
lotto numbers which are drawen the moest?
electrisity meter the funnction photos?

Aah, no, other topics, nothing to throw up!!

I only got five minutes to say the word — Now that must be a long word. Even for something like Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, you don’t need five minutes.

What can you say to turn on a guy? — Say? Visual or tactile stimulation are probably more effective. body body baby let me feel you, and we’ll make love together, cause i know if you’re in love with me tonight we’re raining! (Huh?) — You’ll only wear women’s underwear from now on! — What?? No! Stop!

Enough excuses and lies for this time, bye, I’ll go now, and i’ll take my cat, and we’ll go fishing in heaven!
:bye:

The TV event of the year

Snooker-reds The World Snooker Championship starts tomorrow – and even though I won’t be able to watch all 120+ hours Eurosport wants to broadcast live, I’m looking forward to the next 17 days, until the final on May 4 and 5.

» Times on Eurosport (German)
» Matches listed by day
» Drawsheet of all matches

Will John Higgins, “The Wizard of Wishaw” – in the official world ranking list (as of before the season) on number 1, in the provisional ranking (as of before this championship) down to 5 –, be able to defend his title in the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield? Or will one of the other 15 Englishmen, 4 Scots, 3 Welshmen, 3 Northern Irishmen, 2 Irishmen, 4 Chinese and 1 Australian be victorious?

We shall see – it will certainly be entertaining to watch the 368 to 705 frames to be played in 31 matches with many top players and not least thanks to the highly valued German commentator Rolf Kalb.

» The Snookerblog (German) has a few players’ opinions before the start of the championship.

Statistics nobody(?) needs:

Mini-Billard Youngest player (no, not the one on the photo) is the Chinese Liu Chuang, he turns 18 in June, is on the Main Tour since the start of this season and on no. 91 of the provisional ranking, oldest is Steve Davis (50), down from 15 to 27 in the provisional rankings. The average participant is born on 31 Aug 1976, thus over 31½ years old, and turned pro with about 18 years.

All 32 together combine 434 years of pro experience, 13.6 years in average; record holder is Steve Davis with 30 years. The average official world ranking position is 17.9*, provisional 18.6* or 20.9, respecively.

In the previous season, the average prize money a player won on official tournaments was £87,051* (ca. 109,000€) with a range of £6,830* to £288,500 (8,500€ to 360,000€), in the entire pro careers before the start of the season 2007/2008 £1,529,350* (ca. 1,900,000€) or £90,620* (113,000€) per year – record holder is Stephen Hendry with £8,257,210 (10,270,000€) in 23 years or £359,009 (446,000€) per year. Plus, of course, earnings from sponsors and other advertising.

* Excluding the newcomer Liu Chuang.


The statistics – no guarantee – are based on the data from the World Snooker Association.
Photo of the boy with mini billiards © Stuart Miles – Fotolia.com