Archive for April, 2007

Apple Poetry—Er…, Not So good

Posted on April 17th, 2007 by Robin Bloor in R&R

The news just broke that there’s a poem buried in Apple’s OS X warning hackers against hacking the truly difficult-to-hack Apple OS. This is the full script, according to reports.
Your karma check for today:
There once was a user that whined
His existing OS was so blind
He’d do better to pirate
An OS that ran great
But found his [...]

In Search of Atlantis

Posted on April 15th, 2007 by Robin Bloor in R&R

Atlantis exists as a historical record only in the writings of Plato, who was himself passing on information brought to Greece from Egypt by Solon. Plato’s Critias says: “nine thousand was the sum of years which had elapsed since the war which was said to have taken place between those who dwelt outside the Pillars [...]

Google and the Popularity of Words

Posted on April 15th, 2007 by Robin Bloor in R&R

What are the most common words in the English language?
One way to estimate this is to look common words up on Google and see which ones get the highest page counts. If you do so, you quickly discover that “the”, the definite article, is probably the most common word (at 3,400m hits) – certainly more [...]

Mysterious Lights in the Night

Posted on April 15th, 2007 by Robin Bloor in R&R

If you drive out to West Texas, close to Marfa and about 100 miles from El Paso, you will come across a viewing station for “The Marfa Lights”.
What are they?
To get a detailed story, visit this website, but actually I can describe them for you, because I’ve seen them. They are lights that appear [...]

Standards/Monkey Business

Posted on April 15th, 2007 by Robin Bloor in R&R

I found it in my Inbox…
Start with a large cage containing five monkeys. Inside the cage, hang a banana on a string and place a set of stairs under it.
Before long, a monkey will go to the stairs and start to climb towards the banana. As soon as he touches the stairs, spray all of [...]

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