[Offtopic] Mind Reading Mystery

[Roland Gesthuizen]

There are heaps of pages out there that go nowhere. I even found the second
to last page on the Internet. http://attrition.org/misc/stl.html

 

I am thinking of writing a chapter in my next book, "Zen and the Art of
Website Maintenance". Think about it. Does a web page really exist if nobody
looks at it? Most web pages are unique and assembled from a database query,
this means that they don't exist until you think of a question and click on
the submit button. If we apply some physics here, smaller web pages would
have a greater quantum uncertainty and might slip into the grey-information
world of existing in two states at once, until they are observed. Like
Schrödinger's cat, the info-bit particles that made up your web page Roslyn,
might only have existed until the very moment you had clicked upon the link,
whereupon they promptly vanished into nothingness. I reckon that many of my
student assignments go down a very similar digital plughole just before the
due-date event horizon, but that is another story..

 

Regards Roland

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From: offtopic-bounces at edulists.com.au
[mailto:offtopic-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Meadows, Roslyn M
Sent: Tuesday, 29 March 2005 7:03 PM
To: Information Technology Teachers' Offtopic Mailing List
Subject: RE: [Offtopic] Mind Reading Mystery

 

Can anyone explain how to get to this website - I just get 


The page cannot be displayed 


*SAD*


Roslyn Meadows
Bentleigh Secondary College



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From: offtopic-bounces at edulists.com.au on behalf of "Keith Richardson"
Sent: Sun 1/06/2003 3:14 PM
To: offtopic at edulists.com.au
Subject: [Offtopic] Mind Reading Mystery


Can anyone explain how this works?
http://mr-31238.mr.valuehost.co.uk/assets/Flash/psychic.swf
Has me fooled!!!

Keith

Keith Richardson.
Head of Computing,
Leibler-Yavneh College,
(PO Box 164, Caulfield South. 3162)
phone:03.9528.4911 fax: 9523.0036

webmaster at yavneh.vic.edu.au

"The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but
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