Archive for December 2006
It does work
Posted by: kartyush on: December 25, 2006
SongTapper.com – Find music by tapping the rhythm of the song’s melody.
Song Search and Retrieval by Tapping
This site lets you search for a song, by tapping the rhythm of its words (lyrics).
Put it all in perspective
Posted by: kartyush on: December 24, 2006
RANDOMANIA.net
Think of it this way. If you live in a good home, have plenty to eat and can read, you are a member of a very select group. And if you have a good house, food, can read and have a computer, you are among the very elite. If you woke up this morning [...]
Buzztracker: World News, Mapped
Posted by: kartyush on: December 24, 2006
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Buzztracker – World News
Real Time Satellite Tracking
Posted by: kartyush on: December 24, 2006
Try it out! Pretty neat
Birthday paradox
Posted by: kartyush on: December 23, 2006
My son who is 21 month old has a best girlfriend who was born the same day and year (40 minutes apart) as he is! This explains it:
In probability theory, the birthday paradox states that given a group of 23 (or more) randomly chosen people, the probability [...]
Really?
Posted by: kartyush on: December 15, 2006
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Children with high IQs are more likely to be vegetarians when they grow up, according to research reported on Friday.
A
British study of more them 8,000 men and women aged 30 whose IQs had
been measured when they were 10, showed that the higher the IQ, the
greater the odds of being a vegetarian.
“People who are more
intelligent as [...]
“I’m not a racist, but…”, or why automatic stereotyping happens
Posted by: kartyush on: December 15, 2006
Очень интересный обзор в 2-х частях (1 and 2)
Very few of us can avoid stereotyping others. …But the very fact that we can try to avoid it suggests that there’s something more to racial stereotypes than a “stereotype center” in the brain. If stereotyping was completely automatic, we’d be no more able to resist [...]
Вот оно как это выглядит
Posted by: kartyush on: December 15, 2006
Find yourself on the Map of the Internet!
Новый способ быстрого умножения
Posted by: kartyush on: December 14, 2006
Работает прекрасно
The Hole – video powered by Metacafe
Что-то все меньше вокруг новых русских и всё больше новых совков
Posted by: kartyush on: December 14, 2006
Прекрасную фразу произнес недавно кто-то из русских интернетчиков:
«Что-то все меньше вокруг новых русских и всё больше новых совков».
Наступление «совка» ощущается буквально во всех сферах жизни – от
искусства и пропаганды до экономики и политической системы. Все это
происходит на фоне пока еще полных прилавков и в условиях
конвертируемости рубля, а также свободного выезда за границу – то есть
«совок» [...]
Ошеломляющие новости
Posted by: kartyush on: December 11, 2006
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… Рассказывают о выводах какой-то приооновской экологической комиссии. Комиссия выяснила, что самый главный вред земной атмосфере наносят коровы. Эти рогатые твари так неудачно пукают, что создают 2/3 одного вида парниковых газов, треть другого и четверть третьего. В общем, все эти глобальные потепления – от коров.
Доклад экологов занимает 400 страниц – и все о подлой коровьей [...]
Interesting Fact:
Posted by: kartyush on: December 8, 2006
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch procejt at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosnt mttaer waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe
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