well
They ARE films, aren't they ? :)
Paris, well you know....
National Schools Film Week punts unsafe URL
We can't decide whether someone is having a right laugh or simply hasn't got a clue, but we feel that National Schools Film Week could have picked a better URL to punt cinema to wide-eyed youngsters. Yes indeed, while http//www.nsfw.org/ does indeed point to celluloid enlightenment, parents had better make sure their offspring …
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Wednesday 13th October 2010 10:48 GMT John H Woods
OMG
It seems teh Interwebs is now officially too easy to use, domain registration included. What sort of noob registers an .org domain without checking what the taken domains of the same name look like? What sort of organisation delegates the registration to such a noob? It's amazing.
On a related note, has everyone seen the 'idiot-test' that's doing the rounds, claiming that this 'weekend-filled' October has a calendrical pattern seen only once every 823 years?
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Wednesday 13th October 2010 11:42 GMT Anonymous Coward
Well.
By my reckoning it's always got 31 days, so that makes it one year in 7 (short term variations caused by leap years).
Of course - other months have 31 days as well, so that's 7 months, each running at 1in 7.
So that's basically once per year...
(Of course all months (other than January) are phase locked in a given calendar year (January is phase locked to the previous calendar year))
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Wednesday 13th October 2010 12:31 GMT The Fuzzy Wotnot
Exactly what I was thinking!
Almost everyone, including a lot of IT people, will simply tack on a .COM to most URLs! You think URL, you think .COM suffix.
Alright IT people would probably spot the .ORG and think "Hang-on, why did they have to use anything other than .COM?", but still the organisers could have just thought for two mins.
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Wednesday 13th October 2010 12:48 GMT A J Stiles
Once every 823 years
A friend of mine tried to claim that a month containing five Sundays, five Mondays and five Tuesdays {like this August gone} occurred only once every 823 years. In fact, all it takes is for a 31-day month to begin on a Sunday.
In a leap year (97 out of 400) there are six different starting days for 31-day months (July starts on the same day as January). In a plain year (303 out of 400) there are only five (August starts on the same day as March and October the same day as January). That's an average of 5.2425 31-day months starting on a given day of the week per 7 years.
How did anyone get 823 years?!
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Wednesday 13th October 2010 10:56 GMT cor
Picking the nits in the article
Sorry, I know;I'm nit picking here - but if you copy & paste from their own site it says:
"This year’s dates are:
England, Wales & *Northern Ireland* – 14-22 October 2010
Scotland: 28 October-5 November 2010"
You may not realise, it but people generally mean The Republic of Ireland when using the term "Ireland".
You're not alone in this kind of mistake though, as the locals here in The Netherlands generally refer to the entire British Isles as "England".
Ok, enough pedantry for now.
C.
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Wednesday 13th October 2010 11:19 GMT Anonymous Coward
"refer to the entire British Isles as England"
That's because, up until the late '50s, this was the norm in England. Sorry, Britain.
The whole point was that England conquered the other buggers. It always makes me laugh when the usually right-wing football supporters complain about the Union flag being "un-English" and use a 300 year old, pre-Empire flag instead.
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Wednesday 13th October 2010 12:50 GMT irish donkey
Alvin and Chipmunks
My daughter is off to see Alvin and Chipmunks with her friends. She is sooo excited.
I told her to pay attention to the Ian (David Cross) he works as a record producer and give a very true to life account of how Record Companies/Producers screw money out of their artists.
That's what the movie/music business is really like and why it is acceptable to steal their stuff because when you steal something that has already been stolen it's not really stealing.
Bit of a RIAA own goal. The whole point in this exercise is to teach kids that the movie business is a caring sharing industry that you shouldn't steal from but as I said before it's not really stealing.
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