Quick info, June 29
Thursday, June 29, 2006 6:54:13 AM
- Megatokyo Comic [875] - "Chapter 8: Defect Mapping"
- Ukraine parliament to choose PM
- Nikola Tesla. Croatian site
- Nikola Tesla Competition. Serbian site
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla
- Some UK schools used as visa scam front
- Serbia's PM vows to keep Kosovo
- NASA shuttle launch countdown T-3days
- Germany sets 'lax' carbon quotas
- WTF: The $64,000 Message
To mark the publication of the revised 11th edition of the Concise Oxford Dictionary, a list of the 25 most common nouns in the corpus has appeared this week. The complete list, in decreasing order of frequency, is: time, person, year, way, day, thing, man, world, life, hand, part, child, eye, woman, place, work, week, case, point, government, company, number, group, problem, and fact.
- Montenegro admitted as 192nd UN member
- A South Korean believed kidnapped by North Korea decades ago claimed Thursday that he went to the North accidentally
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China navy chief sacked for graft
an unmarried young woman reported Wang's activities and admitted an "improper relationship" with him.
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Matrimonial cryptography
Sarah and I are getting married in September, and want to engrave an encrypted message in our rings. The catches:
(1) Each ring should make sense on its own. I.e., neither ring may look like "XJFIWLGOSIBNQ".
(2) Only about 20 characters can fit on each ring.
(3) The message must require both rings to be decoded; further, every *character* of the message must require both rings to be decoded. -
Ancient garland in Egyptian tomb
Archaeologists in Egypt expecting to find a mummy during their excavation of a burial chamber in Luxor have instead discovered a 3,000-year-old garland of flowers.
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Jail for Denmark 'honour' killing
A court in Denmark has jailed a Pakistani man for life for ordering the murder of his 18-year-old daughter.
Ghazala Khan was shot dead two days after her wedding, because the family opposed her choice of husband. - Rape case four hanged in Pakistan
- Can treatment change paedophiles?
Stats
Robert Provine's conclusions on how laughter is caused
- The left side of the cortex analyzes the joke
- The brain frontal lobe becomes active
- The right hemisphere of the cortex finishes the analysis of the joke
- It then spreads to become processed by the senses
- Lastly the motor section of the brain gets stimulated to evoke laughter
Words
- quirk \KWURK\ -verb- curve, twist
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e·gre·gious (ĭ-grē'jəs, -jē-əs) -adj- Conspicuously bad or offensive
to put the mockers on -v.phr- to jinx or bring bad luck on an activity or to hinder it, perhaps through an adverse circumstance that may be regarded as bad luck - um·quhile (Ŭm"kwĭl) -adv- Formerly, previously; former, late
- gelotology -n- the study of humour
- ger·ry·man·der (jĕr'ē-măn'dər, gĕr'-) -tr.v.- To divide (a geographic area) into voting districts so as to give unfair advantage to one party in elections.
- communist North
Comics
- Childhood lesson #1: Childhood is what happens when school isn't looking
- Open a massage parlor and live off the fat of the land
- C - I've never felt so depressed before...
L - Well. I wish I knew what to say, Charlie Brown, but you're a hard person to help...
C - You mean I have a personality so complicated that it defies analysis ?
L - No, I mean you have a personality so simple that it defies analysis!






