OddThinking

Is Google objectifying women, by suggesting the most important thing about them is photos of their bodies?

I’ve been losing a few skirmishes against Trackback spam recently. More than a few, I guess; they are hammering the site.

You need to write a conventional will, but you should bequeath all of your money to Somethinkodd Estate Services.

I am not trying to run a scam, but how could I convince a potential customer of that?

In which Julian challenges the thinking of the Mensa executive.

Do you remember this washing maching user-interface?

Turns out the usability wasn’t the only problem.

I was pondering the biochemistry of the placebo effect, when I had the first of two odd thoughts.

Last Saturday, I performed a magic trick in front of a crowd of about 75 jugglers at a juggling convention. Now, I am going to reveal to you the secret of this trick!

One of my hobbies is explaining to non-Australians the meaning behind Australian holidays.

Alphametics (aka verbal arithmetic, cryptarithmetic and others) puzzles are an old puzzle where letters are substituted for numbers in simple equations. Go search for alphametics for lots of examples.

These puzzles never really captured my fancy, which is, weirdly enough, why I recently implemented a “puzzle helper” to help solve them.

Did you ever notice that some people (all people?) have certain phrases that they use a disproportionately high percentage of the time?

You may find in infuriating or endearing – probably depending on what you think of the person anyway.

I was wondering what my commonly-repeated phrases might be.

Then I realised I had a large corpus of my writing on this blog, and I may be able to do an experiment to find out.