Rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock. A diagram explaining the outcomes of the game The normal form matrix of rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock.
Rows represent available choices for player 1, columns those for player 2. Numbers in cells show utility (payoff) for player 1, player 2. Rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock is an expansion of the classic selection method game rock-paper-scissors. DSC02427 1.JPG - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. List of number-one mainstream rock hits (United States) World's funniest joke. The "world's funniest joke" is a term used by Richard Wiseman of the University of Hertfordshire in 2002 to summarize one of the results of his research.
For his experiment, named LaughLab, he created a website where people could rate and submit jokes.[1] Purposes of the research included discovering the joke that had the widest appeal and understanding among different cultures, demographics and countries. [citation needed] The History Channel eventually hosted a special on the subject. [citation needed] The jokes The winning joke, which was later found to be based on a 1951 Goon Show sketch by Spike Milligan,[2] was submitted by Gurpal Gosal of Manchester: Two hunters are out in the woods when one of them collapses.
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The game progresses by counting up from 1 to 21, with the player who calls "21" suffering a drinking penalty before the next round starts. The loser may add one new rule to the game, and starts the new round. Players are arranged in a circle, facing inwards. The game begins with one player calling the direction of play by saying, "I propose a game of XXXX!
To my left... " or "To my right... " followed by a sequential series of numbers beginning with one. "I propose a game of 21! "" As the game progresses, each player in turn must recite one to three numbers, counting in sequence from where the previous player left off: Saying one number (e.g. If a player makes a mistake, then they suffer a small to moderate drinking penalty (e.g. 2 fingers of drink) and then restart the game from 1. Hesitating to continue the game.Calling the wrong number.Calling a number out of turn.Breaching any original or instated rule. List of spells in Harry Potter. EyeTap. EyeTap inventor Steve Mann wearing a metal frame Laser EyeTap (computer-controlled laser light source run from "GlassEye" camera) An EyeTap[1][2][3] is a device that is worn in front of the eye that acts as a camera to record the scene available to the eye as well as a display to superimpose computer-generated imagery on the original scene available to the eye.[3][4] This structure allows the user's eye to operate as both a monitor and a camera as the EyeTap intakes the world around it and augments the image the user sees allowing it to overlay computer-generated data over top of the normal world the user would perceive.
The EyeTap is a hard technology to categorize under the three main headers for wearable computing (constancy, augmentation, mediation) for while it is in theory a constancy technology in nature it also has the ability to augment and mediate the reality the user perceives. Possible uses[edit] Inventor Steve Mann using weather-resistant EyeTap together with a hydraulophone. Pyrophone. A pyrophone, also known as a "fire/explosion organ" or "fire/explosion calliope" is a musical instrument in which notes are sounded by explosions, or similar forms of rapid combustion, rapid heating, or the like.
It was invented by Georges Frédéric Eugène Kastner. Related musical instruments[edit] The German composer Wendelin Weißheimer (1838-1910) playing a Pyrophone. Pyrophone history[edit] Pyrophones originated in the 19th century. Pyrophone fuel sources[edit] Pyrophones are usually powered by propane, but gasoline powered mobile units have been built, to connect to automobile fuel intake manifolds and use the spark plugs and wiring, etc., to detonate one or more of the chambers.