Category Archives: Technical Amusements

Doctor Unheimlich has diagnosed me withDavidosis Cause: pollen Symptoms: indigestion, grunting, occasional facial hair Cure: bleach beach Enter your name, for your own diagnosis: Thanks to Rae for pointing me to this uncannily accurate, online, self-diagnosis system. Now that my … Continue reading →

Those of you with inquiring minds and some spare time on your hands might want to submit a little of your work to the Gender Genie. This a program that analyzes text and attempts to identify the gender of the writer based on a scan of key words and syntax. The algorhythm seems to support the premise that men talk more about objects, and women more about relationships. Please note, I am recommending this as amusement only, see disclaimer below.

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I discovered the perfect blogging timekiller today, while following a circuitous path through a maze of weblogs. It will provide hours of entertainment and will acquaint you with sites you would never plan on visiting.

It has been described as, “A stunning online service that shows exactly where a Web site lives in Cyber Space relative to other Web sites!”

Unfortunately, it is only another gee-whiz technical feat that is more amusing than useful at this state of development.

The TouchGraph GoogleBrowser, is a Java powered graphical tool that “relates” your weblog site to other sites. It is a cute piece of coding, but the output was of little real value. Your results might be different.

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Thanks to Tiger, I found a pop psych quiz that is harmless and entertaining. On the other hand, if you are the kind of person who reads a great deal of significance into test results, you should not even attempt … Continue reading →