For intellectual property enthusiasts: “No-crap craps: crapless craps done right,” US patent application # 2006/0043671 A1, filed August 30, 2004 by Stuart N. Ethier. Here’s how Ethier summarizes his innovation: “Crapless Craps, a game that has existed for more than 20 years, is a modification of standard craps designed to eliminate the possibility of the […]
Category: Arts and Science
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Computing Gibberish (part 2)
#2 ‘Implementing a Jabberwocky Gibberish Generator’. In contrast to some computer-programme developers who create gibberish by jumbling word-orders (see Computing Gibberish (part 1)) others take a different approach, and scramble the letters of English words (somewhat) to generate pronounceable nonsense words, known as pseudowords or logatomes, similar to those found in ‘ Jabberwocky‘ by Lewis […]
Parker surges with the authorship lead: 1,050,000 and rising
Professor Philip M. Parker [pictured here] has now authored more than 1,050,000 books, according to a report by Caitlan Carroll for the “Marketplace” radio program. This new total should erase most doubts as to whether he is the most prolific author ever. When we reported about Professor Parker in 2008, he was up to only about 85,000 […]
Optimum temperature for using a banana to drive a nail
Of the many people who have tried to use a banana to drive a nail, some have experimented to find the optimum temperature for the procedure to procede as desired. Here is a writeup, in Japanese, of one such attempt. (HT Ralph Dearing_