OddThinking

What unnatural processes! Haven’t the experiences of the Chrysler Corporation taught you anything of the benefits of Extreme Painting?

Do you have what it takes to win the games that is sweeping the world? Could you be a contestant on Close That Window and win big cash prizes?

A lecturer in statistics once explained to me that when you had a large sample of measurements, it is sometimes necessary to identify the “outliers”; values which are either very suspicious (if there is a risk of experimental error) or very interesting because they are so far outside of the normal range of values. There’s […]

The Sydney Morning Herald has a regular column, Big Questions, where they invite readers to submit questions to be published, and other readers to submit answers.

What sort of nagging questions do their readers want – nay, need – to get answered?

It’s the early eighties and my brother and I have a toy train-set. We want to compete to race trains, but we only have one locomotive on an oval track. The rules for Spaghetti Express racing are born from this necessity.

According to my Famous Five reference library, by historian and scholar Enid Blyton, there is a secret code shared by tramps and vagabonds. By placing a careful, inobstrusive mark on your doorway or gate, they can indicate to others “unkind to beggars, ferocious dog, sucker for a scam”, etc. The idea of a giant conspiracy […]

An Australian bank has an advertising campaign. Its advertisements have been appearing on billboards and in magazines. Some of their advertising images are available online, for the time being at least. Either the adverts are too poor to hit their mark, or I am not in the targeted demographic, or both.

On two classic computer games from times gone by: Kennedy Approach and Overlord.

It’s time once again to play the game that is sweeping the world…. CLOSE THAT WINDOW!