Iconoclasm What can be said about the save icon? It is a diskette. It is often blue. And of course, as others have pointed out, many (soon to be most) people using computers today have never touched one and never will. Yet you could say the same for a the “home” icon (millions will never own a house), the “phone” icon (used a model 500 lately?) The simple fact is that there is a shared visual orthography in which some things are acknowledged worldwide, and this overpowers the logical suggestion to constantly update it. The snake will not run out of tail to eat. The Noun Project is a fun exploration of this concept — that there are, say, 32×32-pixel versions of every concept in the dictionary. But what are the chances these new ideas are going to be truly new? Maybe I lost you there. What did you expect when our data started coming from nowhere and being beamed into the blue? In the meantime, we will be seeing more and more creative reflections of the real world upon the virtual, and vice versa.
Laying the Draw System « Betfair System The article describes one of the methods of live (or in-play) trading that exploits the statistics of match draws. The method can be successfully used in the football betting sector, where draws are highly unpredictable but occur in 25-30% of the matches. Laying the draw is among the simplest Betfair trading systems that guarantee profits regardless of the outcome. The best part is that the strategy is completely legit, since unlike ordinary bookmakers, Betfair has a financial interest in your success. We assume that you’ve carefully read Betfair Trading tutorial, which illustrates the basics of trading on the world’s largest betting exchange platform. We also assume that you already have a Betfair account. To quickly demonstrate how lay the draw strategy works, let’s take a Friendly International match between England and Ghana. On the In-Play Coupon page you’ll find three columns stating the market’s back and lay odds for three possible outcomes. Can you feel the magic?