Day: 29 July 2007

Sites for sore eyes

Just some of the stuff I’ve bookmarked over the years and never blogged about.

  • If you think, like I used to, that everything’s an illusion, then go here.
  • If you prefer to argue about angels dancing on the head of a pin, as I used to, then go here.
  • If, on the other hand, your God is Clapton or Hendrix, as it was for me, then go here.

Just Sunday evening fun. Teaches me so much about Long Tail creativity.

Update: I’ve just been told that one of the links, the one to microscopic art, was inaccurate. It should now work.

Musing about cricket and Google and Cricinfo

As some of you would have gathered by now, I’m a bit of a cricket nut. [If you have no idea what the game is about, take a look at the Wikipedia entry that I’ve linked to, it’s a reasonably good place to start.]

Today was one of those frustrating days when I was sure Tendulkar would get his 38th hundred, but it was not to be. I make no comment whatsoever about at least four of today’s dismissals, other than to say I make no comment.

Moving on. By the time Taufel had upheld appeals for the dismissals of Tendulkar and Ganguly, I began to wonder whether an unusual record was in sight. The highest innings score by a team without any individual hundreds. So I decided to google it, found a route to a story in Cricinfo that listed the following entries:

  • India 524/9 declared (1976, Kanpur, v New Zealand, drawn)
  • South Africa 517 (1998, Adelaide, v Australia, drawn)
  • Pakistan 500/8 declared (1981, v Australia, Melbourne, won)
  • Bangladesh 488 (2005, v Zimbabwe, Chittagong, won)
  • Australia 485 (1993, v New Zealand, Christchurch, won)
  • India 485 (1997, v Sri Lanka, Nagpur, drawn)
  • South Africa 479 (2000, v India, Bangalore, won)
  • England 477/9 declared (1994, v South Africa, Leeds, drawn)
  • Australia 476 (1912, v England, Adelaide, lost)
  • West Indies 475 (1962, v India, Bridgetown, won)

Guess it’s time to make a new entry in 7th place. Interestingly, India now have 3 entries in the top 10. And they didn’t win on the other two occasions.

Jemodu

Tim Rice is rumoured to have come up with this in a recent letter to some cricketing journal. A fellow cricket aficionado, Tim has spent hours looking at the npower logo on the cricket ground. Upside down. And, given the font and style used, npower does look a lot like jemodu.

In typical cavalier spirit, he is meant to have written this letter, asking for readers to come up with suggestions as to what this fictional company jemodu should do. It was the sort of madcap thing that appeals to me, so I wanted to blog about it. And the first thing I did was to google “jemodu” in the hope that I would be led to the story, wherever I’d seen it.

No such luck. But.

You could knock me down with a feather. There is a company called jemodu. Appears to have been formed on 26th September 2006. Wonder what they do….. One thing’s for sure, the founder’s a cricket fan.