Dr Wingnut

Month: October 2007

  • Fallacies

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    Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.G.K. Chesterton

  • Money

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    Money may not buy happiness, but it can buy the type of misery you can live with.Zibby

  • in•san•i•ty (in-‘san-ət-ē) n.,

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    Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results each time.IYAD WYAD YAG WYAG.Persistent mental disorder or derangement.

  • That Wacky Web

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    Trampoline videoSave your eyes (and power) with white-on-black Google searchRecursive lakes and islands Chipmunks at normal (human) speed… weirdTwo fun tech videos (on the iPhone and Microsoft’s table)Fun and totally bizarre Comcast (yes) commercialBizarre and fun videoWorld’s fastest banjo playerBuild an atomA sunset somewhere in the worldCEO vs. Employee salary comparison Fun “lighting doodle” animation…

  • Is that OK?

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    Well it ain’t right, but nobody will say anything.Richard Petty as quoted by David Kirby of Florida State University explaining the phrase which has gotten good old boys into and out of trouble for time immemorial; Interview on the Bob Edwards show, 10 July 2007

  • Proximity

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    The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • Can you answer the twenty-four questions?

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    This test does not measure your intelligence, your fluency with words, and certainly not your mathematical skills.  It will however, give you some gauge of your mental flexibility and creativity.   In the three years since this test was developed (1994?), we’ve found few people who could solve more than half the 24 questions on…