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Cyb
eria
By
Sameen Amer
Marp
On the
Web
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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