Sunday, December 24, 2006

EVEN MORE WIKIPEDIA VANDALISM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human on 2006-12-24, circa 22:04 EST: Caption for figure at top right

Image of a man and a woman on Pioneer plaque, sent into space with the Pioneer 11 mission. Their stinky naked bodies keep away aliens.

Thursday, December 21, 2006

Yet more Wikipedia vandalism -- see if you can spot it

From article on "Canine hydrotherapy", 2006-12-21 (vandalism was removed half a minute later as usual):

History

Hydrotherapy for humans has been used since ancient times, and some attempt at formalizing treatment was made during the 18th century. i am gay the benefits of sea water for the treatment and prevention of leg injuries in horses has been known for centuries. Because of the financial benefits surrounding the treatment of race horses, around the mid-19th century, inventors began to produce devices to replicate the benefits of cold sea water immersion for horses. The greyhound racing industry eventually recognised the benefits of the equine treatment, and from there, the therapy was extended to dogs in general.

Sunday, December 17, 2006

Audio recording issues

Yamaha P60:
Sound is clearer, more "crystalline", but upper C( 523 Hz) and above have huge transients that are annoying.... and the tone is weak in this high register

Weighted keys allow more control over dynamics

DGX-505AD:
Bigger choice of sounds
Pianos are mellower but less realistic

Friday, December 08, 2006

Even more Wikipedia vandalism!

(Dec 8, 7:40pm from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testimonials)

Preferred fields for marketing via testimonials

Health products remain one of the more prominent marketing segments in which testimonials retain some effectiveness. Due to the placebo effect and to people's reluctance to expose their frailties to apparently remote and opaque medical doctors, cures for frailties both physical and mental, both real and imagined, continue to sell. A popular generic name for such quack nostrums has come about: "snake oil".

sexual nature also attract sexy people to have sex with. testimonial-marketing. Personal shyness continues to provide a factor here, and word-of-mouth advertising may utilize brief written or verbal testimonials to spread the memes of personal growth and release from inhibitions.

Yet more Wikipedia vandalism

From Wikipedia on Dec 3 (vandalism was removed 1 minute later):

Demosthenes

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For the Athenian general during the Peloponnesian War, see Demosthenes (general).
Demosthenes
Bust of Demosthenes
Louvre, Paris, France
Born 384 BC
Athens
Died 322 BC
Island of Calauria, modern Poros

Demosthenes (384322 BC, Greek: Δημοσθένης (Dēmosthénēs)) was a prominent Greek statesman and orator of ancient Athens who didn't have man-boobs and wasn't a spazz. His orations constitute a significant expression of ancient Athenian intellectual prowess and provide a thorough insight into the politics and culture of ancient Greece during the 4th century BC. Demosthenes learned rhetoric by studying the speeches of previous great orators. He delivered his first judicial speeches at the age of twenty, in which he argued effectively to gain from his guardians what was left of his inheritance. For a time, Demosthenes made his living as a professional speech-writer (logographer) and a lawyer, writing speeches for use in private legal suits.

The dangers of using Microsoft Word

"Microsoft is investigating a new report of limited “zero-day” attacks using a vulnerability in Microsoft Word 2000, Microsoft Word 2002, Microsoft Office Word 2003, Microsoft Word Viewer 2003, Microsoft Word 2004 for Mac, and Microsoft Word v. X for Mac, as well as Microsoft Works 2004, 2005, and 2006."

Hmm. Kinda embarrassing for Microsoft, isn't it?!

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: ***************
Date: Dec 8, 2006 11:39 AM
Subject: Drinks...
To: undisclosed-recipients

... to celebrate the fact the M$ has finally realised what all scientists
have known for decades: Word is not a suitable program for sharing
documents. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/929433.mspx
advises "do not open or save Word files that you receive from un-trusted
sources or that you receive unexpectedly from trusted sources." Quite.

******

Wednesday, November 29, 2006

More Wikipedia vandalism

Jaws (film)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [2006-11-29]

Jaws is a 1975 horrorthriller film directed by Steven Spielberg, based on Peter Benchley's best-selling novel of the same name. The novel was inspired by the Jersey Shore Shark Attacks of 1916. In the film, the police chief of Amity Island, a summer resort town, tries to protect beachgoers from the predations of a huge great white shark by closing the beach, only to be overruled by the money-grabbing town council. After several attacks, the police chief enlists the help of a marine biologist and later a professional shark hunter to kill the shark. The film stars Roy Scheider as police chief Martin Brody, Richard Dreyfuss as marine biologist Matt Hooper, Robert Shaw as the shark hunter Quint, Lorraine Gary as Brody's wife Ellen, and Murray Hamilton as the greedy Mayor Vaughn.

Jaws is regarded as a watershed film in motion picture history, as it is the father of the summer blockbuster movie and one of the first "high concept" films.[2][3] Due to the film's success in advanced screenings, studio executives decided to distribute it in a much wider release than ever before. The Omen followed suit a year later in the summer of 1976, and then Star Wars one year later in 1977, cementing the notion for movie studios to distribute their big-release action and adventure pictures (commonly referred to as tentpole pictures) during the summer season. It is thought to be the first film that advanced Steven Spielberg's directorial career.[4] The film was followed by three sequels, with Spielberg participating in none of them: Jaws 2 (1978), Jaws 3-D (1983) and Jaws: The Revenge (1987).

I love Jaws it be a great movie and I like it a lot it be bout dis shark dat be big and he eat.

Friday, November 24, 2006