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Sniglets

www.bertc.com/sniglets.htm

Sniglets are "words that don't appear in the dictionary, but should", and are a "long-running popular joke in which people make up their own humorous words to define things or concepts that have no "official" definitions". And on this website you can find a very long list of such words, including:

-Cubelo (kyew' beh lo) - n. The one cube left by the person too lazy to refill the ice tray.

-Upuls (yu' puls) - n. The blank pages at the beginning and end of books, presumably placed there so you can rewrite the ending.

-Marp (marp) - n. The impossible-to-find beginning of a roll of cellophane tape.

-Spood (spewd) - n. Flat wooden "spoon" that accompanies ice cream cups.

-Ufluation (yu flu ay' shun) - n. The peculiar habit, when searching for a snack, of constantly returning to the refrigerator in hopes that something new will have materialized.

-Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.

 

Ubulu and the Oracle of Bacon

www.ubulu.com

www.oracleofbacon.org

Remember the "six degrees of separation" theory which says that everyone is at most six connections away from any other person on Earth? This idea led to the "six degrees of Kevin Bacon" game, the goal of which was to link any actor to Kevin Bacon through no more than six steps, which then turned into what you can find on these websites: connecting any two actors to each other in the smallest number of links possible. Pick two actors and try to figure out the chain, and then enter the names of the actors and the websites will tell you what the smallest path really was. Here are some outputs from Ubulu:

-Kevin Bacon and Ellen Page: Kevin Bacon was in Sleepers with Brad Pitt who was in Snatch with Vinnie Jones who was in X-Men: The Last Stand with Ellen Page.

-Jennifer Aniston and Tom Cruise: Jennifer Aniston was married to Brad Pitt who was in Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles with Tom Cruise.

-Elizabeth Taylor and Lindsay Lohan: Elizabeth Taylor was in The Flintstones with Halle Berry who was in B*A*P*S with Faizon Love who was in Just My Luck with Lindsay Lohan.

-Johnny Depp and Kevin Federline: Johnny Depp will be in Sin City 2 with Jessica Alba who was in The Love Guru with Justin Timberlake who was in a relationship with Britney Spears who was married to Kevin Federline.

News-e-land

-Fake anti-virus software scam: A report by web security analysts Symantec has revealed that millions of people have fallen victim to fake anti-virus scam in the last 12 months. The report says that more than 40 million people have been tricked into clicking on authentic-looking websites and software that promises to remove viruses from their computers, but instead actually makes their PCs more vulnerable to infections, and may even lead to fraud and identity theft.

Software Corner

Interlex

Interlex is an application that helps you learn vocabulary in a foreign language and improve your language skills quickly and easily. The programme lets users create bilingual vocabulary lists in languages including Afrikaans, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, and many more, and helps them compile a list of words and phrases, and then tests them to commit this knowledge to long-term memory. Interlex offers different testing modes (into native language, into foreign language, and multiple choice), and provides ready-to-use vocabulary files to get you started. Its simple interface makes using the application very easy, and the immediate feedback provides a tangible sense of progress.

Freeware

Platform: Windows 95, 98, ME, NT4, 2000, XP, Vista

File size: 862 KB

Website: www.vocab.co.uk


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