As you may have guessed I like reading phenomenon’s, here are a couple more I picked up...

The first is a 'Nonsense Passage' which my mum gave me, it is used to test weaknesses in reading possibly as an indication to dyslexia. Apparently it highlights an over-reliance on rote word learning, and a lack of understanding of the regularities of the writing system... whatever that means? Still thought it was interesting:

One day a mib fell into the feg. So gruny was he that he cried, "Ober, give me a throld!" He climbed out, shook the water off and ran back to his dom. She said, "Oh stid," and gave him a reb lim drack.

The second is really more of a tongue twister, I have yet to say the following whole sentence correctly at a reasonable speed:

One smart fellow, he felt smart.
Two smart fellows, they felt smart.
Three smart fellows, they all felt smart

The poor fellow just ends up smelling bad every time!

"If you are dyslexic, your eyes work fine, your brain works fine, but there is a little short circuit in the wire that goes between the eye and the brain. Reading is not a fluid process." --Bruce Jenner

I found another reading phenomenon which I found interesting… English spelling is particularly complex, especially considering that there are many ways to spell the same sound:

“My knew spelling checker does knot all ways no sum of the write words two use. It tolled me awl of these words were spelled write. Ewe sea, eye halve a knew spelling checker own my pea sea. It was maid to make my miss steaks plane four me two sea. Did ewe find the blew sentences hard two read? Eye did to. They did knot make good since!”

Therefore computer spell-checkers shouldn’t always be trusted, as domonstrated by the passage above.

“You learn how to pass your driving test - THEN you learn to become a driver, it is the same with teaching.” –Lisa’s computer monitor

As the darkness once again nibbles at each end of our days and I reluctantly leave the house, scrape the frost of the car and drive to work, slowly crawling my way out of Portsmouth I often look at my opposites crawling their way into Portsmouth on the other side of the road. On a few occasions I notice other drivers yawning and without fail within seconds I too will yawn. Why!?

Who knows, after I see the person on the other side yawn, and then I yawn myself, maybe I then trigger someone else back on the other side of the road to yawn triggering the person behind me to yawn, causing a yawning epidemic to ripple virally up and down the road.

This got me thinking of a little blog experiment. What I want to know is has all this talk of yawning caused you to yawn also? I certainly am (which may also have something to do with the face that it is Friday afternoon and the Virgin Media office heating seems to be on live volcano setting).

You are thinking about yawning, yawn, yawn, yawning, yawn!

So answers in the comments below - has this blog comment caused you to yawn? If it did, was there anyone around you who saw you yawn and yawned also? Why do we yawn when we see other people yawning? Could I write the word ‘yawn’ in this blog post any more times?!

“Encouragement is the Oxygen of the spirit” –Dr. Steven C. Riser (via Dad)

Below is a matrix of 120 ‘ViralTags’, this is part of an experiment, started by Founders Cafe, to distribute links around blogs in order to achieve higher Google and Technorati rankings. In brief, it works by blog owners copy and pasting (infecting) their own blog with the ‘ViralTags’ matrix thus passing on a collection of links. Please do give this a go…

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Instructions:

1. Copy and paste this blog entry including the matrix of ‘ViralTags’ below and these instructions (courtesy of Founders Cafe).
2. Substitute the Host Tag and one of the ‘ViralTags’ in the matrix with your anchor text of choice with your blog’s URL. Please keep anchor text to a max of 3 words to keep the matrix size manageable.
3. When you get a ping back from someone that has your link in one of their ‘ViralTags’, practice good courtesy by copying his/her Host Tag’s anchor text (automatically the associated link will also be copied) and paste it over one of your ‘Viral Tags’ below.
4. Encourage and invite your readers to do the same and soon this can grow virally.

Host Tag: JLS Cisco Networking

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Rules:

• No Porn Sites
• Only 1 link per person (i.e. Do not hog the ViralTags!)
• Please do not tamper with other peoples URL’s

Important:

Once I get a ping back from you, I will add your anchor text and the associated link you designate as ‘Host Tag’ here, replacing one of the ‘ViralTags’ from the matrix above. As more and more bloggers copy and paste this matrix, the more backlinks you will have with your anchor text. If everybody who copy and paste from your blog does the same, pretty soon this will spread and go viral. So, the sooner you participate, the more links with anchor text you will receive.

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“I’m a raver, man - I’m a cheesy quaver…I buzz off anything and any one.” –Tracey, Big Brother UK 2007

Just for a bit of fun… using Google (other search engines are available) search for your name, followed by ‘likes to’ surrounding both by double quotes. For example “James likes to”, write down the first 10 search results. This is what mine came back with:

1. James likes to think of himself as a really splendid engine.
2. James likes to write about a child’s interaction with nature and animals.
3. James likes to travel.
4. James likes to watch fat porn.
5. James likes to bike, hike, and bird watch.
6. James likes to relax by swimming, walking the coastal footpath with Jane.
7. James likes to bring his own style of depression and gloom to Saturday mornings.
8. James likes to call his favorite Bible.
9. James likes to pass.
10. James likes to say, it’s about “impacting minds and hearts”.

Some are very funny especially about me being a really splended engine, although I must point out that I really do not like to watch fat porn!

Go on, give it a go, I would love to hear your results in my comments…

“This spring as it comes bursts up in bonfires green; Wild puffing of emerald trees, and flame-filled bushes” –The enkindled spring by D H Lawrence

Here is another clever reading phenomenon… Count the number of times the letter “F” appears in the following quote (Do not read on until you have counted them!)…

“FINISHED FILES ARE THE RESULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIFIC STUDY COMBINED WITH THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS…”

How many times is the letter “F” used? …3? …Wrong! There are 6 “F’s” in the text! No joke, read it again? The reasoning behind is due the brain not processing the word “OF” when reading sentences. Go back and read it one more time? Anyone who counts all 6 “F’s” on the first attempt is a genius, 3 is normal, 4 is quite rare.

“The 50:50 rule is only correct 50% of the time!” –JLSaunders

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I wulod iaginme tihs wluod cusae all sotrs of truolbe wehn Gogloe teris to idnex pgae cnteont wtetrin in tihs way! and of cuorse spmeamrs hvae been utizlinig tihs mtheod in teihr “phraeutimaccal” and “pienis enaelemrgnt” eaimls for yaers.

“…and the answer to all my dreams; you’re my sun, my moon, my guiding star; my kind of wonderful, that’s what you are” –Barry White

HAPPY NEW YEAR!! Someting to keep the mind juices flowing…

There are three mates who have just brought a flat together and they decide they want to get a TV. They find a second hand electrical store with a TV in the window for £30 and decide to go in. Between them they decide they want the TV and hand the cashier £30 (£10 from each of them) and just as the cashier puts the money in the till, he suddenly realises that actually the TV has been reduced down to £25. So the cashier takes £5 from the till but can’t figure out how to divide the £5 between the three housemates, so he just gives each of them £1 back and puts the other £2 in his pocket (because he is a cheeky beggar!). Now each of the housemates put in £10 and got £1 back, therefore paying £9 each. 3 x £9 = £27, £27 + £2 in the cashiers pocket = £29.

So where has the last pound gone!!?

It Took me a while to figure it out