July 2010
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How NOT to win Rock-paper-scissors every time
FlowingData posted a chart created from info from the World RPS Society entitled How Do I Win Rock, Paper, Scissors every time?, which attempts to improve your RoShamBo* (UK: Scissors, Paper, Stone) technique using psychology.
Maybe their psychology is sound, but unfortunately, their grasp of mathematics ain’t so good.
If you “know your opponents [sic] next move will be Scissors...
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“Tattoos are horrible and they never come off. Walking around with a tattoo is...”
– This is the funniest and least important part of David Mitchell’s otherwise entirely correct article about a prospective ban on the wearing of Burqas.
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operationmargarine:
Jeremy Hunt, the Culture, Media and Sport minister has decided that the Film Council is too expensive as has to go. Only, actually, the Film Council makes money, roughly 400% on investments. By cutting it, he is losing money.
Go read the rest of the post for operationmargarine’s hypothesis for the real reason behind the Film Council’s closure. It is...
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Looks like marco could use my CSS hack.
Sledgehammer And Whore →
camerondaigle:
Your fascinating article of the day. via waxy
A thoroughly entertaining read.
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Pet Hate
When Americans call the British newspaper the London Times, presumably due to some assumed correlation with the New York Times, or just to distinguish it from the same.
Sometimes, realising that this isn’t quite right, they call it the Times of London, which, although slightly better, still implies that “of London” is part of the name of the newspaper. cf. the way other British...
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A Nifty CSS Trick
This is so obvious that I hesitate even to mention it, but it hadn’t occurred to me before yesterday, and on the off-chance it hasn’t occurred to you, dear reader, I have decided to post it. If you don’t have a Tumbl of your own, you can stop reading…
…now!
The Problem
In addition to its canonical location on my website, this blog can be read in several other...
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Apple's iOS app ratings
Neven Mrgan wrote an incisive post in which he used the rather low average of the App Store ratings for Apple’s home-produced apps to point out the flaws in the app ratings system itself. If you haven’t already, you should go read it now.
But he neglected to include the actual ratings for each individual app. I thought it might be interesting to see those, and so here they are....
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I Wish I Was a Little Bit Taller
But wait, I heard you all ask, when I described Flinder Boyd last week as a WYWG-Favourite, what’s so great about Flinder?
Apart from his name, obviously.
Well, I told you before but as you obviously weren’t listening, I’ll tell you again.
Flinder has a blog and it’s genuinely fantastic. He intersperses silly but amusing posts, such as his recent email and YouTube...
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GB Roster for Euro 2011
In slightly cheerier British basketball news, Britball reported back in May that WYWG-favourite Flinder Boyd made the roster for team GB’s squad for its qualifying campaign for Eurobasket 2011.
Other notable* names on the list are current NBA players Luol Deng and Ben Gordon, Kieron “Length” Achara, Pops Mensah-Bonsu, Mike Lenzly, Germayne “I gotta get my stance...
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“Professional cyclists often talk about how the love of suffering itself is...”
– —John Krolik, on LeBron James’s depature from the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Nick Hornby wrote an entire book on this topic.
Regarding James’s move, see also: Straight Bangin’: “That’s it. Shit’s over. The NBA is done, and we can all thank LeBron James.”
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GB must wait to learn Olympic fate
Britball:
FIBA secretary-general Patrick Baumann has revealed that Great Britain’s men and women may have to wait until next summer before learning whether they will get a place in the 2012 Olympic Games.
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The news is likely to disappoint British Basketball, who have long been frustrated at the lack of clarity over the issue, having originally been told that the national...
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“As expected, people like to draw male reproduction organs all over the place,...”
– Mr.doob battles with human nature in his web-based multiuser sketchpad.
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WatchThe John Wall Dance on ESPN
According to the D.C. Sports Bog, the John Wall Dance was played out well before the above video was made, way back in February.
I don’t think the craze made it over the pond, though, and somehow I never got around to checking it out the first time round, so the recent resurgence of the dance when Wall was the no. 1 pick in the NBA draft was a welcome...
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“Honestly, Google should be embarrassed by how bad their search is when looking...”
– Marco, in a post about how difficult it was to find a simple camera for his grandparents.
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“of the approximately 750 children who will drown next year, about 375 of them...”
– —Mario Vittone, describing the CDC stats in an article titled Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning.
(link via Daring Fireball)
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“All persons convicted of being jazzily intoxicated shall go before the Superior...”
– — House Bill 194, submitted to Washington State Legislature in 1933 by a Seattle congressman.
(via salt_bagel in the comments on FreeDarko)
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