BooMp3 player

Saturday, June 23, 2007

Dig this site:

http://boomp3.com

You can upload music anonymously, and they have a superb embeddable player.
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The reading - spelling connection

Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Researchers at MIT have shown, that even if words are garbled, so long as the first and last letters are not changed, the paragraph is still readable!

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.



Or rather...

According to a researcher at Cambridge University, it doesn't matter in what order the letters in a word are, the only important thing is that the first and last letter be at the right place. The rest can be a total mess and you can still read it without problem. This is because the human mind does not read every letter by itself but the word as a whole.


To do it online, use this link: (This does not have "easy", "medium" and "hard" readability though, as the offline software has.

http://www.stevesachs.com/jumbler.cgi

For offline software (which is a very small and has the above features) download "wordreplacer" from:

http://home.zonnet.nl/hebels13/letterreplacer.zip

You'll need the Visual Basic runtime files to be on your system if you want to run the executable, the installation for this files can be found here:

http://download.microsoft.com/download/vb60pro/install/6/Win98Me/EN-US/VBRun60.exe

I tried wordreplacer, and it works absolutely fine.

For proper nouns, misspell them by duplicating another letter such as "Googlle"

http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/~mattd/Cmabrigde/

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