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This is yesterdays's Dilbert (28 April 2005) but I guess its genius had to sink with my slow brain. It's just so funny.

Being a geek myself I unfortunately resemble myself in Alice here.

This is possibly the best blog entry I've seen in many months. It's a summary of some really interesting Google Maps searches

The quality still isn't great but the potential sure is interesting. I for one love the airplane graveyard search

North america sure is interesting geographically because it's so varied but just imagine the potential when Google Maps reaches the whole world! (probably not North Korean) And on this page, make sure you have a look at the slideshow in the Wired article they link to.

Did you know that if you shuffle the letters of "peter bengtsson" you get "regent pets snob" and "begs rotten pens". There's a whole list of them here on this page

You can try with your own name.

I found this as I was checking Michael Foord's website Python programs page

I've mentioned this before on this page and now I've found a few more on this page. Enjoy.

A great article about memory on MSN. It's about the American memory championship but the article also contains lots of information about memory in general that I didn't know. Another interesting thing is that for once the Americans don't whip us Europeans. The Europeans are apparently superior to the americans. At this U.S. championship two Europeans participated unofficially. One from England and one from Austria.

"Though Amsuess and Cooke's scores weren't officially tabulated, it was clear that Cooke would have destroyed the American competition. In the random words event, he managed 150 words in five minutes, 50 more than the best American score."

The Austrian chap seemed to have suffered but it's understandable because of the language barrier. However, this amuses me:

"And in speed cards, his best event, he clocked an impressive 45 seconds—almost four times faster than the best American—but lost out on a heap of points because he reversed two out of the 52 cards. Not dejected all, he loosened his tie, left the building, and walked to a nearby pub, where he memorized a deck of cards for the waitress and got three free beers in return."

Apparently the World championships are going to be held here in London, England where I live in August. Got to find out where and how I can get tickets to at least come and look.

BTW, here's the official website

UPDATE Following a few links eventually made me end up on www.worldmemorychallenge.com where they have a lovely Flash memory challenge. It doesn't take long and it's fun. My score was 19205 but I'm sure I can improve on that if I try again.

To some this might remind them of crap sold by buskers in plazas side by side with people who want to caricature you and show off their ugly pencil paintings of Leonardo di Caprio. But I'm impressed. Just going through the website it's obvious that this fork bender has loads of imagination. I appreciate that.

In the process of noticing Fork-Art.com I also did a quick search for Uri Geller on Google. I accidently landed on his own website uri-geller.com on which I found a very peculiar article: Looking in Uri's Mouth

Apparently, the famous and serious magazine New Scientist did an article in 1974 on how Uri Geller does his telepathic scams. The go into detail explaining the electronics Uri must hide in his teeth. Is it a joke? Difficult to tell. Amusing at least.

By the way, here's a step-by-step explaination on how he did is worn-out spoon bending trick: Spoon-bending How Uri Geller really does it!

Do you remember the ending of the film Trainspotting? It starts "Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television. ..."

Now someone has done the equivalent based on the job of a system administrator a.k.a. sysadmin. This one starts "Choose no life. Choose sysadminning. Choose no career. Choose no family. ..." And they've prepared this as a t-shirt and are trying to sell it.

It's dark, depressing even, but very funny. I'm not a sysadmin but I admire the people who are.

Space.com has a lovely image gallery of pictures from the Hubbles space telescope. They've done it so that you can vote for every picture similar to HOT or NOT.

What amazes me so much about these pictures is how different they all are. Granted that the pictures of Jupiter is going to be different from pictures of a nebula but within their categories all pictures are very different and at the same time equally amazing.

Try not to waste too much time on click and reading every picture. I did.

I love the Seinfeld show, but still I've never got around to finding any good websites about it. On Seinfeld Quotes they've made a nice and comprehensive list of quotes. In the rush of things I couldn't find my favorite but now I've got the quotes site bookmarked so there is hope.

"The woman had an orgasm under false pretenses. That's sexual perjury!" - Jerry, in "The Mango"

It's not the first time we see this. A whole "serious" website that is 100% fake. The photos are retouched and the information is full of lies. I'm not even sure if it's possible to order the cool t-shirts they claim to sell. Maybe that's what it's all about: the t-shirts.

Some questions on ethics and moral should be asked. How far can you push a joke in a medium where people are already very sceptic. I guess it don't matter much because there's little that can be done. It will never be possible to tell people what they can and can't publish on their websites as long as it doesn't violate any legal boundaries.

Anyway, reading BaconWhores made me laugh and made me think: maybe it's not a joke. Maybe one can order a bacon whore???