N - Free Action Game from AddictingGames! Those Special Google Logos, Sliced & Diced, Over The Years. I’ve been working on a project to classify all the special logos that Google has done over the years. Crazy? Perhaps a bit, but it’s interesting to see what Google has honored with special logos and the great increase in them recently. Besides, I like to organize things. Below, how Google’s special logos have evolved, including tips on which occupation to pursue if you hope to have your birthday immortalized by Google.
My project’s not done yet, but I presented some early findings at Ignite: SMX West in March. If you don’t recognize some of the logos below, that’s because in recent years, Google has targeted some logos to specific countries. 1998: First Doodle In this year, the first ever Google “Doodle” appeared. Most Celebrated Holiday: US Thanksgiving Also that year, the first holiday was celebrated: Thanksgiving in the United States. Below, the most celebrated holidays as of March 2010: US Thanksgiving leads, at the time I compiled these in March 2010, with 12 recognitions. Cool Stuff. Motivator: Create your own motivational posters!
First time here? Welcome! We have a lot of fun stuff to play with like ourMotivational Poster maker, Magazine Cover maker, Pop Art poster, and much more! Play as much as you like—everything is free. We also sell awesome custom-printed products. Create, share, and buy your own customized motivational posters. Armed with a digital camera and that non-stop wit of yours, you now have the power to turn a simple photograph into a humorous or inspirational message. Best Free Music Player and Organizer | The #1 bookmarked Freewar. This article compares audio software that enrich the music experience or enhance everyday listening, and provide impressive music centric features.
The best MP3 and audio player ought to quench our passion for music, such as by inspiring us to rip or download music, organize our music libraries, learn more about our favorite artists or music, or just listen to music. The reviews evaluate products on sound enhancements, usability and unique features, support for common and useful audio formats (MP3, WAV, FLAC, WMA, and others), performance, security and privacy. Thanks to our faithful followers, who have been pitching their favorite players and organizers, we have a set of carefully considered selections. We have 26 listed music players and counting!
Latest article update: Added more quick links at the top (8-27). Go straight to: The following had to have light resource efficiency while impressing us with music centric features. And here's a first for ANY music player. Top 5 Free Media Players For Windows. When it comes to video playback, there are way too many choices available – even if you look at only the FREE options. Within that selection, some players are fantastic and others are sorely lagging behind their competitors, and the most popular ones aren’t always the best ones. The difficulty is taking the time to separate the wheat from the chaff. That’s what I’m here to do so you don’t have to settle for less than best. Comparing Windows media players is actually a pretty difficult task.
Yes, some players are more feature-packed while others are barebones. Yes, some players are easier to use out-of-the-box thanks to off-the-bat codec support and such. Yes, some players are uglier or prettier. Here are five of the best media players you can use on Windows for free. VLC Media Player Back in the day, VLC used to be the king of free Windows media players. It’s still good for playback, though, and remains extremely popular to this day thanks to its large feature set: Intrigued? GOM Player.
Mathematical joke. A mathematical joke is a form of humor which relies on aspects of mathematics or a stereotype of mathematicians to derive humor. The humor may come from a pun, or from a double meaning of a mathematical term, or from a lay person's misunderstanding of a mathematical concept. Mathematician and author John Allen Paulos in his book Mathematics and Humor described several ways that mathematics, generally considered a dry, formal activity, overlaps with humor, a loose, irreverent activity: both are forms of "intellectual play"; both have "logic, pattern, rules, structure"; and both are "economical and explicit".[1] Some performers combine mathematics and jokes to entertain and/or teach math.[2][3][4] Pun-based jokes[edit] “We can't multiply, we're adders" Some jokes use a mathematical term with a second non-technical meaning as the punchline of a joke.
Q. A. Occasionally multiple mathematical puns appear in the same jest: log(book) + C Person 2: A log cabin. Jokes with numeral bases[edit] Super Mario Galaxy 2 (wii) reviews at Metacritic.com. The First Smiley :-) The smiley :-) and its many variants are an important (and fun!) Part of the worldwide online social culture -- allowing emotions to be conveyed in plain text. It has been in widespread use since the early '80s, when it was first proposed. Yet the original message in which the smiley was invented had been lost -- until now. :-) After a significant effort to locate it, on September 10, 2002 the original post made by Scott Fahlman on CMU CS general bboard was retrieved by Jeff Baird from an October 1982 backup tape of the spice vax (cmu-750x). Here is Scott's original post: 19-Sep-82 11:44 Scott E Fahlman :-) From: Scott E Fahlman <Fahlman at Cmu-20c> I propose that the following character sequence for joke markers: :-) Read it sideways.
Actually, it is probably more economical to mark things that are NOT jokes, given current trends. For this, use :-( To see the post in context you can read the "joke" thread on the bboard that led to the invention of the smiley. Stupid Math Tricks. Paul Erdos (1913-1996) was one of the greatest mathematicians of all times, working with number theory. He has been called the mathematician of mathematicians and the oddball of oddballs. He lived for mathematics. He had no life, no home, no possessions, no interests other than mathematics and only spoke to people who loved mathematics. Everyone else, to use his description, was “dead”. He slept for 3 hours a day and spent the rest on mathematics. He ate very little (no time) and traveled widely with all his belongings in a plastic bag, looking for fellow mathematicians to live with for a few days (he really never had a home, but lived with whoever he could find).
His hosts have said that he had no idea how to cut an apple or how to wash his underwear. Mathematicians pride themselves as being the pursuers of the purest science of all sciences. An old joke is quite relevant. However, much to the chagrin of real mathematicians, there is fun in mathematics. Marriage by Mathematics. The Video Game Revolution: "Eight Myths About Video Games Debunk.
Reality Bytes: Eight Myths About Video Games Debunked Henry Jenkins MIT Professor A large gap exists between the public's perception of video games and what the research actually shows. The following is an attempt to separate fact from fiction. 1. According to federal crime statistics, the rate of juvenile violent crime in the United States is at a 30-year low. 2.
Claims like this are based on the work of researchers who represent one relatively narrow school of research, "media effects. " 3. While most American kids do play video games, the center of the video game market has shifted older as the first generation of gamers continues to play into adulthood. 4. Historically, the video game market has been predominantly male. 5. Grossman's model only works if: we remove training and education from a meaningful cultural context. 6. On April 19, 2002, U.S. 7. Much video game play is social. 8. Henry Jenkins is the director of comparative studies at MIT. Sources Gee, James. Grossman, David. The Code of the Geeks v3.12. The Code of the Geeks v3.12 By: Robert A. Hayden <rhayden@geek.net> The HTML version of the The Geek Code v3.12 has been formatted by Dylan Northrup. Last updated: March 5, 1996 So you think you are a geek, eh? The first step is to admit to yourself your geekiness.
How to tell the world you are a geek, you ask? The single best way to announce your geekhood is to add your geek code to your signature file or plan and announce it far and wide. Well, here it is, finally, version 3.x of the World-Famous Geek Code. It is my hope that this new version will be much superior to version 2.x. Finally, despite my opinions to the contrary, I've left some of the "appearance" sections in. In other news, the Geek Code is starting to go mainstream. The geek code consists of several categories. Some of the qualifiers will very probably not match with you exactly. After you have determined each of your qualifiers, you need to the construct your GEEK CODE BLOCK. The following is an example Geek Code.
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