Tuesday, November 30, 2010
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The Most Boring Day In History Was April 11, 1954
Why was it so boring!? Well, first of all it was uneventful. Usually in other days, someone famous was born, someone notorious died, or something significant happened. On April 11th, 1954, a Sunday in the 1950's, apparently none of that went down.
The scientist who came up with that date, William Tunstall-Pedoe, used his sophisticated search engine, True Knowledge, to search for the day where no result really popped up. With True Knowledge users can find out what happened on a particular day in history. Here's what he did:
"It occurred to us that we are able to objectively measure the importance of every day in history. Some days are highly eventful and on some days far less happens and we can also objectively estimate the importance of these events.
"For fun we wrote the program and set it going. When the results came back the winner (or perhaps loser) was April 11, 1954 – a Sunday in the 1950s. Nobody significant died that day, no major events apparently occurred and although a typical day in the 20th century has many notable people being born, for some reason that day had only one who might make that claim: Abdullah Atalar – a Turkish academic.
The funniest thing is that the most boring day ever is now somewhat interesting, because of its status as the most boring day ever. So does that mean the 2nd most boring day ever is now the boringest? [Cambridge News via Neatorama]
Friday, November 26, 2010
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Monday, November 22, 2010
1st Official ParchedInSpace Top 5
Top 5 TV Series. (Includes series that only lasted 1 season)
Source Code
From the Director of Moon comes another crazy mind blaster....If you could live the last 8 minutes of someone's life, who would you choose?
Sunday, November 21, 2010
get yo shit
i.e. paunching, paunched, paunches, pauncher, paunchers, paunchingly and paunchedly
get it right assholes
Saturday, November 20, 2010
Friday, November 19, 2010
Now that I have a PC Computer my kids are good at school and I'm my own boss
Thursday, November 18, 2010
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Friday, November 12, 2010
The Ghost Inside (80's style)
Es pretty weird
Surrealistic paintings by Tetsuya Ishida
The surrealistic paintings of Tetsuya Ishida (1973-2005) explore the dark side of modern life
Thursday, November 11, 2010
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Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Monday, November 8, 2010
I only watch Conan while smoking from a bong and drinking diet coke
Taiwanese synopsis of the current Conan situation.
Saturday, November 6, 2010
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Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Yup, all this will end now that the morons are back
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Football in Canada
From www.Deadspin.com:
Do yourself a favor and watch the video before you read the explanation of what the hell happened here. Trust us.
Okay, obviously this is the CFL. And there are two rules unique to Canadian football that allow this bizarre game of kickball to occur.
1) If you kick the ball out of the back of the end zone, you receive one point. It's called a single, or rouge.
2) You are allowed to advance the ball by drop-kicking it.
When Montreal lines up for what looks to be a field goal with time running out in a tie game, they're not even necessarily trying to split the uprights. If they can get it out of the end zone (rule 1), they get a point and win the game. That's why Toronto sends a couple of defenders back.
Since the end zone is 20 yards, and the goalposts are on the goal line, this 36-yard field goal is actually 56 yards to score a single (rule 1). The kicker doesn't have the aim for the 3 points, or the distance for the 1. The Toronto defender keeps it in play, but must get it out of the end zone, because if he's tackled there, it's still a rouge. But he sees he doesn't have the room to run.
He kicks the ball out of his own end zone (rule 2) to avoid being tackled and losing the game. But as luck would have it, it goes directly to the Montreal placekicker. Clearly he cannot run the ball in for a touchdown. But the opportunity to score the single is still in play. He kicks it back to toward the end zone (rule 2), trying to send it out the back (rule 1).
He again fails. But the Toronto player cannot control the ball and whiffs on his attempt to clear it out of the end zone (rule 2). There is a scramble, a Montreal player falls on it, and it's a touchdown. Montreal wins.
Got all that? Don't worry. All you need to know is that Canadian Football is Calvinball all grown up.