Caeephr Skooner
I find myself procrastinating again in place of writing an essay on a rather ugly Torts assignment to do with liability of statutory authorities, pure nervous shock and non-delegable duty. How thrilling. Anyway, we found a new place to play snooker down at Coogee, and it only costs us $0.80 an hour. That’s right, 18 times less expensive than the 8-ball parlour near the beach. It has five well-maintained tables. A bit time-consuming getting down there though, but only one more week until mid-session break (well, technically it’s called “Reading Week”).
Also, Bonhomme sent this in:
Xueli: Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe.
It’s pretty cool once you realise you can actually read that paragraph at almost full speed. Be interesting to see how much slower reading scrambled words actually is. Just write a script to scramble all but the first and last letters of all the words on a page of text from a novel, then time how long it takes for different people to read through various scrambled and unscrambled passages. (Hmm, doesn’t really work too well with the title of this post though! I guess you need more contextual clues.)
4:58pm (GMT +10.00) tomorrow 
I’ve always wondered about the wait before seeing a forward twice. I had never seen that one before, and got it the same day as the post. I’m sure someone started a project where they visualised live tracking of email forwards. Imagine starting one? And seeing how long before (or if) you got it back while at work or uni?
That’s really interesting. The author still misspelled important, though.
teldak: and “research”, but I think the point is that it doesn’t matter even if the middle letters are a complete mess (ie. not the original letters from the word)
In fact you p______y d__’t n__e t__m at all. (probably don’t need them at all).
I think every possible angle is covered here:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/15/2227256