Introducing Fortune Cookies to the Chinese
August 29th, 2008 / Binkley / Tags: new york times, fortune cookies / Trackback / Commentsmediocre minds great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Archive of August 2008
Man Calls Bank "Pants" In Password; Gets Denied
I am constantly fascinated by the British use of the word pants to mean "rubbish". In this pants-related article, a Lloyds customer changed his password to "Lloyds is pants", only to have it be changed to "no it's not". Hilarity ensued.
Oh, and pants.
August 28th, 2008 / paladinz / Tags: pants / Trackback / Comments
Source: CBS
Super Smash Bros Brawl World Champion Ken joins Survivor.
Now, if only we could get a less fruity pose from this guy, that would be great. It's truly a step forward in reality show marketing (of which I have been paying zero attention to) in that they realize, finally, that throwing a video game player in there would be an awesome strategy.
August 27th, 2008 / Masakun / Tags: video games, television, smash bros, survivor / Trackback / CommentsFiveThirtyEight
If there is one thing baseball is good for, it is copious amounts of statistics. FiveThirtyEight is a website started by a baseball stat geek that focuses on election statistics.
August 26th, 2008 / paladinz / Tags: politics, statistics / Trackback / Comments
Kratos in Hot Shots Golf
It may be typical of the pro-Obama Dungeons & Dragons crowd to disparage a fellow countryman's memory of war from the comfort of mom's basement, but most Americans have the humility and gratitude to respect and learn from the memories of men who suffered on behalf of others.
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August 21st, 2008
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From John McCain's official website, via Ars Technica. These PR guys sure love their fabricated generalizations, don't they?
Found this floating around on a few sites that discuss the current situation of the stock market today (bear market = downturn, bull market = aggressive growth).
Source: The Big Picture
August 20th, 2008 / Masakun / Trackback / Comments
Too Human scores are all over the place
67.9 Average review score.
12.1 Standard deviation of scores.
88.0 Highest score (Ferrago).
42.0 Lowest score (1UP).
Source: Metacritic; last accessed 08/19/2008, 16:31.
August 19th, 2008 / paladinz / Tags: video games, too human, statistics / Trackback / Comments