The wacky human mind

As wacky as the following paragraph looks, you will likely have no trouble reading it – go on, give it a try!

I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the first and last ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a aotl mses and you can still raed it wouthit a porbelm. This is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh?

The most tech-savvy animals on the web

The other day I was trying to access GMail and got the error message below:

500 Internal Server Error

Sorry, something went wrong.

A team of highly trained monkeys has been dispatched to deal with this situation.

Also, please include the following information in your error report:

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U8B9lsUpmH0R8FtAvnfzQQugp6NFI-8lnrV_MF9JZvSefgfb2L1flZd6OILf
coLk8CH-IE-wbhgXP3UMjzNd1YQNV4j4jbeRdzHSpYSQxuVIfCGQMjtw5xAQ
ZgPC1ZRKXEoWHl9A6VuvCFFjdPi1Qw9FcMp8AoM5cQbtUbxxbci5gbI_8Bd
...

Trained monkeys.  So that’s how Google thrives in hard times.

Sherlock Homes

I am not much of a joke-teller but occasionally I run across one worth passing on.  Here is my favorite from a web site that claims to have listed the best jokes in the world:

Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson go on a camping trip.  After a good dinner and a bottle of wine, they retire for the night, and go to sleep.

Some hours later, Holmes wakes up and nudges his faithful friend. “Watson, look up at the sky and tell me what you see.”

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