Het werkt dus niet… bah.

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

Normaal gezien zou die tekst hierboven (en hieronder) moeten verschenen zijn in mijn eigen handschrift, maar neen. WEFT heeft er blijkbaar problemen mee. Pff.

Eventjes een test:

Ding dong? Michel Vuijlsteke, testing een twee drij…

En nu hopen dat het werkt…

Comment from Truth on September 16, 2003 03:12 AM

It’s eaceillonptxy aidnnostug how many sdeloppsuy kabdeegollnwe scceiimnooooc choorts will slrup up uabeinrtttud pcdeeiiinossstuc maaeklry.

Order doesn’t matter, huh? “English University”, huh? WOW, well if someone you probably don’t even know tells you that someone told them that it happened at an English University, then it must be true!!

Dollars to donuts it’s an urban myth and will show up on snopes.com soon.

Granted, the topic is very interesting. But don’t take the story hook line and sinker.

-Truth

…but then again…

Comment from Martin on September 16, 2003 08:50 PM

Understanding the context is key!

From: Restoring the Vision, Government Technology Volume 16 Issue 12 Aug 3 p15 sidebar

A phenotropics presentation Jaron Lanier gave at the University of California at Berkeley included the following quote, for which no origin is found.

“? … randomising letters in the middle of words [has] little or no effect on the ability of skilled readers to understand the text. This is easy to denmtrasote. In a pubiltacion of New Scnieitst you could ramdinose all the letetrs, keipeng the first two and last two the same, and reibadailty would hadrly be aftcfeed. My ansaylis did not come to much beucase the thoery at the time was for shape and senqeuce retigcionon. Saberi’s work sugsegts we may have some pofrweul palrlael prsooscers at work. The resaon for this is suerly that idnetiyfing coentnt by paarllel prseocsing speeds up regnicoiton. We only need the first and last two letetrs to spot chganes in meniang.? “

Lanier tied this quote to phenotropics by saying language theorists seem to make a mistake in assuming natural language is more like computer language than it probably is.

My phenotropic work examines a radically anti-parse/anti-protocol approach to computer science,? he said. ?I naturally wonder if natural language can also be understood with less reference to the kinds of structure usually found somewhat in common between it and traditional computer science. What if comprehension could survive all manner of scrambling, particularly of word order and word variation choice, like tense? My hypothesis is that even a tiny amount of the mysterious element we call ?context? can correct even very high levels of scrambling.?

Steven [SWee@Home] heeft onder meer deze prachtig klinkende documenten nodig om zijn auto in te kunnen schrijven bij den Duits: Aufenthaltserlaubnis, Unbedenklichkeitsbescheinigung, EWG-Übereinstimmungsbescheinigung en een Abgasuntersuchungbescheinigung.

Theh.

When I was a curly headed baby
My daddy sat me down on his knee
And he said, son you go to school
You learn your letters
Don’t you be a dirty miner like me.

I was born and raised at the mouth
of the Hazard Holler.
Coal cars rambled past my door.
Now they’re standing
In rusty rows all empty
And the L&N don’t stop here anymore.

I used to think my daddy was a black man
With scrip enough to buy the company store.
Now he goes downtown with empty pockets
And his face is white as the February snow.

I was born and raised at the mouth
of the Hazard Holler.
Coal cars rambled past my door.
Now they’re standing
In rusty rows all empty
And the L&N don’t stop here anymore.

Last night I dreamed I went down
To the coal yard
To draw my pay like
I always did before.
But them old kudzu vines
Were growing through the doorways
And leaves and grass were growing
Right up through the floors.

I was born and raised at the mouth
of the Hazard Holler.
Coal cars rambled past my door.
Now they’re standing
In rusty rows all empty
And the L&N don’t stop here anymore.

Het arrangement op Johnny Cash’s “Silver” is, erm, anders dan ik het gewoon was van Michelle Shocked, maar miljaar zo goed.

Jeroen is voort, bah. Die goele Heidi constateert dat haar nominatietactiek opgebracht heeft. En te weten dat zij er alleen nog maar zit omdat die andere goele haar verwisseld heeft met Jeroen.

Stomme kijkers.

Om elf uur wordt aangekondigd dat er gevecht is. Big Brother gaat proberen ze 48 uur wakker te houden. Heh. Ze verdienen het.

Die trienen zijn allemaal aan het panikeren dat het geen naam heeft, gewoon omdat ze luid lawaai te horen krijgen. Pfff.

Ik vin dees nie chiek, weet Ellen ons te vertellen. Jaja.

Ze gaan alsnog proberen slapen. We zullen zien. Neen dus.

En ze kunnen er ondertussen niet meer mee lachen. Welbesteekt.

• Heidi nomineert: Kelly en Edith


• Sabrina: Edith en Ellen.


• Ellen: Edith en Sabrina. Omdat ze de rij afgaat.


• Kelly: Edith en Sabrina


• Edith: Heidi en Sabrina

En nu mag Heidi een naam veranderen: het was Edith en Sabrina, en nu is het Edith en Kelly. De smerige teef. Ze gaat het wel eerlijk gaan zeggen wie of wat ze veranderd heeft.

Allez dan, en nu de nieuwe kandidaten.

• 21 sportief verstandig en man van principes: John. Hij maakt graag plezier en hij gaat het niet serieus opnemen. En hij is de ideale schoonzoon. Hij is gemakkelijk in de omgang. Gerrit ge kun mijn omsrijven als ‘mister we gaan een feesje bouwen’.


• 24 jaar, mathousca, een feestnummertche, tot een kot in de week uitgaan. Een ijdeltuit. Ze ziet er graag frisjes en goed uit. Ze heeft achtenzeventig broeken.


• zeer moeilijk te doorgronden en dingen, een kunstenaar van 38 jaar uit knokke, hannes. Hij heef bij Van Rossem in de partije gezeten. Hij kan niet tegen domme mensen. Hij wilt meedaan voor de uitdaging. Vroeger was hij een manager, maar nu heeft hij schijt aan de wereld en da’s plezanter.

Ik ben voor die laatsten.

Way to go! Ta ta ta ta tada ta tada! Ta ta ta tata tadada tata tadada!!

Remember the Calvin and Hobbes strip where Calvin gives himself his own music-track to accompany his comings and goings? Protestors are applying that to Darth Ashcroft, playing the Imperial March when he puts in appearances.

Ashcroft was bombarded by cries of “Shame!” and the sound of the “Imperial Death March” from the movie “Star Wars” as he entered a meeting with law enforcement officials in Faneuil Hall.

Link
[Boing Boing Blog]

Heh. ’t Is nog waar ook…

From Joi Ito’s Web:

Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, olny taht the frist and lsat ltteres are at the rghit pcleas. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by ilstef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

Link
[Boing Boing Blog]

:: Which West Wing character are you? ::

Morgen:

Yay!

A new opinion poll indicates that the majority of Americans oppose President George Bush’s request for an additional $87 billion to fund military and reconstruction efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Six in 10 people surveyed in the Washington Post-ABC News poll said they do not support the request.

Responding to criticism that the $87 billion amount is too high, Vice President Dick Cheney said Sunday that the cost of failure in Iraq would be far higher. Speaking on NBC television’s Meet the Press, Mr. Cheney said the money was “all that we think we’ll need for the foreseeable future, for this year.” [Voice of America News]

“…for this year“, jaja.

Deze mail zat in de inbox vandaag.

Mensenlief.

Ik was misschien wel beter thuis gebleven, maar what the hell–besmettelijk ben ik al niet meer wegens incubatietijd voorbij, en er is teveel werk te doen, dus ja.

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Consider the moment — a famous one, and one that’s both exhilarating and chilling, whether you’ve heard it once or 100 times — when Cash sings, in “Folsom Prison Blues,” “I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.”

A great wave of cheering rolls forth from the audience, all of them convicted criminals. And although we can’t know for sure exactly why they cheer — and each of them may be cheering for a different reason — we can make a few pretty good guesses: First of all, the line is grimly funny. Second, some of them may have actually done the same thing themselves, for approximately the same reason — not a pretty truth, but there it is.

But I wonder if some of them didn’t cheer for this reason: Here was a man who freely stood before them, singing in the voice of a character who had committed a crime that was probably colder, and worse, than any of the things they themselves had done. Cash’s message wasn’t “I’m better than you are.” It was “I’m lowlier than you are” — and with this, he handed them back some of their dignity. Cash sang in defense of the poor, the downtrodden, the unjustly punished. But he also sang in defense of the humanity of murderers. For that fact alone, I hope that the God Johnny Cash so believed in is right there to greet him. If anyone deserves to find peace in the valley, he does.

[Salon]