Scrambled words are legible as long as first and last letters are in place

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Taken from: Slashdot.Org However, by this time it is probably off the main page so click here for a direct link to the Slashdot article and its discussion board.

An aoynmnuos raeedr sumbtis: “An interesting tidbit from Bisso’s blog site: Scrambled words are legible as long as first and last letters are in place. Word of mouth has spread to other blogs, and articles as well. From the languagehat site: ‘Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe. ceehiro.’ Jamie Zawinski has also written a perl script to convert normal text into text where letters excluding the first and last are scrambled.”

Sports Illustrated on Campus ranked the Badgers the No. 1 Best College Sports Town

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We’re #1 Go Badgers! “Sports Illustrated on Campus ranked the Badgers the No. 1 Best College Sports Town in the United States.” Plus, in one NCAA poll we are ranked 14th in the country, and in another we are 15th. On another note, did you know that Maurice Clarett is suspended from play this year for lying to the NCAA? Too bad, because we want to beat them when they are at full strength!! 😉

I volunteered at the Ironman Wisconsin on Sunday

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Source: http://www.ironmanwisconsin.com

Link to Ironman Wisconsin
I volunteered at the Ironman Wisconsin on Sunday. I biked down along John Nolan Drive and helped a police officer direct the bikes around a sharp turn.

The Ironman is a 2.6mi swim, a 112mi bike, and a 26.2mi (marathon) run. The elite athletes usually finish at about 9hrs or less, while some people take a full 24 hours!!! A guy named Peter, that I met at the UW Cycling club barbecue, completed the Ironman last year. Watching all the bikers and the runners got me inspired and I signed up for the 2004 Ironman Wisconsin. When I signed up, about a day after registrations opened, there were already over 1500 people signed up. And now, at the time of this posting, there is over 1900! It was quite a large investment, but if you look at it as a whole year long preparation, which it will have to be, then the money is pretty evenly distributed.

Anyway, it might be a once-in-a-lifetime experience since during later summers I might actually have a job throughout the whole summer, not just the grueling 3 weeks of tennis camp that I enjoy now.

The biking should be the easiest part, while the running will be pretty easy to after I have conditioned my knees/legs for the pounding. And, I’m going to really need to work on the swimming….

But, it should be a lot of fun, and I will be in great shape!

For training I’m going to be reading a lot on the Internet and possibly buying a book of Amazon. I will also be participating in some marathons throughout the summer. For biking, I have joined the UW Cycling club tonight and already have been doing some riding with them. I guess coming up in October there is an Apple Cider ride, a century, in which about at the halfway point we stop and eat donuts and drink fresh apple cider and some apple orchard “nearby.”

So, I’ll probably keep this site updated with details about my Ironman training.

Later.

writing this entry from my dorm at UW Madison

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Alright. I’m writing this entry from my dorm at UW Madison. Classes don’t start until the day after Labor Day so I’m just hanging out with friends, biking, playing tennis, and setting up my room. Tonight some of us are going to go to the UW vs. Mexico soccer game and then tomorrow night we’re going to the hypnotist and comedian at the Union Theater. I glanced over my books and the classes look pretty fun.

Scott

Welcome to [email protected]

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Welcome to Everything@Everything2.com What is this site? If somebody knows please leave a comment and explain it to us. This is what I’ve read so far in the FAQ: E2 can be a very, very confusing place at first. This website has grown from being a very simple user-written encyclopedia (see E1) to a very complex online community with a focus to write, publish and edit a quality database of information, art and humor. When you make an account here you join not only a team of dedicated writers but an entire micro-society and community with its own pop culture, politics, beauty and blunders. It’s not perfect. In fact, it can be pretty messy. It’s cool, though …

It seems to be a user contributed dictionary, glossary, guide book, jokes, quotes, and information about anything.

Here is a post under the unwritten rules for driving topic: it should be pointed out that the above rules apply only in countries like the USA where they drive on the right side of the road – which is the wrong side of the road in many countries who consider the right side of the road to be the left. If you are driving in one of these countries then these rules will be wrong unless you make them right by replacing all references to ‘right’ with ‘left’ and all references to ‘left’ with right’. Then what you have left will be right for your current location. Clear? right.

Truck Blast at U.N.’s Iraq HQ Kills 20

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Truck Blast at U.N.’s Iraq HQ Kills 20 How about this AP News report??? I don’t understand this at all. The people who did this are only hurting the peaceful efforts to rebuild Iraq. Don’t they want to live in peace in the Middle East?! (Or is death what they always want). On a related note, there was another suicide bombing in Jerusalem. Again, I don’t understand this. The killing in the Mideast is over religion (which should not advocate killing). We in the U.S. live mostly at peace with one another despite our great diversity. Besides 9/11, suicide bombings in the United States are not common (and I hope that it remains that way) in the way that they are in Jerusalem. Let’s hope we continue ridding the world of terrorism, given that that’s what others expect from us as the world’s policeman.

make sure that your domain name doesn’t expire

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A quick note. Always remember to make sure that your domain name doesn’t expire. Take this site for instance www.klettke.org, or this website. It wasn’t my site any longer! It was just filled with advertisements!! I had forgotten to renew my domain and DotYou.com, the website that I bought the domain with decided to hold the domain (those nice guys), (but redirected it to advertising instead) for 30 days or so until I paid the $9.75 to renew it for the year. I must have gotten an email from them alerting me that my domain was about to expire, but I hadn’t used the email that they had on record for a long time because it was overcrowded with spam. After a lot of hassle and worry (because my main email address used that domain) I eventually got an email explaining what happened. Moral of story: Check those expiration dates on webpages. Who knows, klettke.com, klettke.net, and a lot of other variations are taken.

Confessions of a G33k: Howard Dean Spam

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Confessions of a G33k: Howard Dean Spam I just read this from Slashdot. I knew it was only a matter of time before politicians would start spamming. Now, the only question is, is it from Dean or from an opponent? I wonder how many people are actually going to want to vote for him after an email like this?!