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Links of the Week (2007/51)

2007-12-22

Short and sweet:

Picture riddle 5

2007-12-20

What is this detail from?

picture riddle 5

Somehow I was afraid that this is again too easy… seems it wasn’t? :mrgreen:

Hint: I’ll show more:

picture riddle 5 (more)

The solution, essentially solved by Dee: :clap: a coffee/espresso machine:

Bilderräddsel 5 Lösung

Danke fürs Mitmachen!

Fractal thongs are a biohazard

2007-12-19

At least, somehow “G-string/thong” and “biohazard warning sign” crossed my mind when I looked at the fractal title of the latest edition (1/08) of the magazine Spektrum der Wissenschaft (German edition of Scientific American)…:

SdW 01/2008 title

The magazine itself – which I’ve been reading for many years now – is, of course, more serious and respectable and much less crazy than my thoughts sometimes are. And more worth reading. ;)

:hammer:

A lifetime of searching

2007-12-19

All my life i’ve been searching for something. And now you found it, yoohoo! And here we are, right inside the next edition of search query analyses…
(Search queries have a grey background; I added some commas for readability and capitalized some beginnings of sentences, but didn’t make them shorter or longer. And I translated the German ones.)

And then it hit me all at once when you left, i cant let you go, i keep trying but i cant, all i can say is i miss you. Do you know that only you can save me baby? Thank you, that really warms my heart. But I wasn’t away for long, anyway.

And we’re already in the right christmas mood, it’s christmas, give me all your money – baby call me crazy but i know you feel it too, cause you look and you think and you see a— see what? Say it to my face, look me in the eyes and say what you have to say!

I just wanted to let you know, it don’t matter that you got no— didn’t doesn’t? Nevermind, again and again i’ve taken too much, and it’s all too much for your head to take, just a matter of time before you break. Go ahead, I can take a lot. Continue!

There’s a man that i think im gonna love forever, and forever we’ll be together. Great for you, but (1) i don’t mind, i don’t care, don’t you know that?, and (2) why are you telling Google?

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Global Scaling Event… or Someone speak Turkish?

2007-12-18

I’m looking for information about the so-called “Global Scaling Event of the year” that took place on 1 Dec in Berlin, alledgedly presenting a new invention for secure data transmission (GSPIN) – and about which there’s hardly anything to find. (Which doesn’t have to be bad, actually…) The general Głobal Scaling site still shows the announcement; the dubious company’s site on morint.com = GSDI Cyprus Ltd. reports in the News from 6 Dec (German; the beginning seems to have been lost somehow) the following (my translation):

“The over 300 participants positively felt the crackling excitement when they witnessed the experiment. On a big screen, everybody could see that in Berlin and Nicosia the same security code was generated.”

I, personally, think that you can project a lot onto a screen… As long as it hasn’t been reliably verified and approved by independent scientists that indeed this technology created these codes as has been claimed, I got my doubts. And I think folks who offer a lotto prognosis deserve no trust in advance whatsoever, anyway.

Other than that, Google finds with GSPIN Berlin and GSDI Cyprus Berlin – thanks to the company’s location and aforementioned partcipation in Northern Cyprus – only several Turkish reports, e.g. Kibris Gazetesı, Mercek TV, TurkEkip, who look as like as two peas in a pod, which leads to the suspicion that they are just press releases from the GSDI company (from 1 Dec) which, of course, praise their own technology to the skies. (Another, not identical article: BRT.)

Since neither Google nor Altavista can translate Türkisch, and the attempt to translate word by word with online dictionaries is both cumbersome and error-prone as well as seems to confirm the praise to the skies, I’m asking, as the title shows, if you know Turkish and can have a look at the links above and tell me (in the comments here) what exactly they say – if it’s more than the typical press release blah-blah… (you don’t need to make a full translation, of course :mrgreen: ).

And does anyone maybe know actual eye-witness reports, preferrably critical ones?

Update 3.2.2010: » Ermittlungen gegen zyprische Global-Scaling-Vermarkter