CLICK THE LINK. DO IT NOW
http://listverse.com/2014/05/30/10-utterly-bizarre-bigfoot-theories/
Friday, May 30, 2014
Wednesday, May 28, 2014
Tuesday, May 27, 2014
Artistic ability at its finest
Look... we've created an ultra-realistic model of TTRS's very own Nick:
Sculpting masters Tate and Kogen are available for commissioned works. You can contact them at 1-800-SCAM.
Australian Farmer Named Royalty by Accident
Australian Farmer Named Royalty by Accident
In the late 1960s, Leonard Casley grew way too much wheat, which could only ever be a serious problem if you live in Australia. You see, Australia had wheat quotas at the time and Hutt River (the province where Casley and other families grew) had inadvertently surpassed it, meaning they weren't allowed to sell any of it. When they petitioned for the quota to be raised, the governor responded by saying, "No," and filing a law to take their land away. THAT'S how serious Australians are about wheat.
Wheat and dingoes are two things they never take lightly.
In a desperate attempt to delay the legal process, the five families of Hutt River seceded from Australia under the Treason Act of 1495. This would have been as pointless as that time you were five and told your mom you were leaving home... if the government hadn't accidentally referred to Casley as "Administrator of Hutt River Province" in official correspondence, which actually gave him legal recognition as a ruler under Australian law. Yes, in Australia, calling someone something magically turns them into that.
His full legal name is now "Hugh J. Wolverine."
Taking full of advantage of the mistake, Casley declared himself His Majesty Prince Leonard I of Hutt, meaning it was now treason, under Australian law, to charge him with any crime or interfere with how he ran his new country.
Prince Leonard can make it so all dudes have to wear necklaces, if he wants to.
Could Australia have stopped him? Sure. But by the time they got around to it, the statute of limitations had run out. So as of 1972, The Principality of Hutt River had officially seceded from Australia and stopped paying income taxes.
As of the modern day, Hutt River is still separate, while Australia treats it as a private business that doesn't pay them taxes and just tries, really hard, to pretend it's not there.
In all fairness, it's a pretty small chunk.
Read more: http://www.cracked.com/article_18753_the-6-most-creative-abuses-loopholes_p2.html#ixzz32vBjbKIZ
Saturday, May 24, 2014
Friday, May 23, 2014
in conclusion... 
Thursday, May 22, 2014
LIVE PANDA CAM!!!
Check out this live panda cam, its particularly funny in Math
UPDATE-
We have taken the liberty of embedding a differnent live panda cam right here for you! Enjoy! (sorry about the size)
UPDATE-
We have taken the liberty of embedding a differnent live panda cam right here for you! Enjoy! (sorry about the size)
Poop!
Lego 's new today , it is great erudition do .
Category : LEGO ( work )
_ People who people who _
> [@#$%] <
¯ YYYYYYY ¯
Poop ! Cormorant
Chi
!
Cormorant
N poop !
Chi
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Poo " Uwaaaaaaa Aaaa Aaaaa ..."
Poop !
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The above babble probably needs a bit of an explanation. WELL: I was checking out some LEGO blogs when I came across a post about talking LEGO poop.
Category : LEGO ( work )
_ People who people who _
> [@#$%] <
¯ YYYYYYY ¯
Poop ! Cormorant
Chi
!
Cormorant
N poop !
Chi
!
Poo " Uwaaaaaaa Aaaa Aaaaa ..."
Poop !
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The above babble probably needs a bit of an explanation. WELL: I was checking out some LEGO blogs when I came across a post about talking LEGO poop.
Unfortunately the post was written in Chinese (or something) so I had to translate it. Well what you just saw was the result. So yeah.
Why is the poo angry? Why does it have a tongue? Is this what can happen if I don’t get enough fiber in my diet?
- Iain of The Brothers Brick
100th Post!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
EDIT BY TATE: Miles really wanted to get to the 100th post... so he published 10 of them. Yep. Don't worry, we're still somewhat sane here at TTRS. Maybe.
"Which is cooler?" poll results
OK our third poll has just wrapped up. We asked readers which was cooler: "quasijocosely Mesopotamia" or "quadragintesimal wappenshaw"? (These were the Google-search terms Ethan and Tate were battling over in this post.)
Here are the results!
quasijocosely mesopotamia - 7 votes
quadragintesimal wappenshaw - 8 votes
Yay! Tate won! Woo-hoo!
A new poll will be uploaded shortly.
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UPDATE: a new poll has been put up over in the left sidebar. Vote for the coolest spaceship!
Here are the results!
quasijocosely mesopotamia - 7 votes
quadragintesimal wappenshaw - 8 votes
Yay! Tate won! Woo-hoo!
A new poll will be uploaded shortly.
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UPDATE: a new poll has been put up over in the left sidebar. Vote for the coolest spaceship!
A brief story
by Tate
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so yesterday my brothers and I were filming a movie about "exploring the dark and dangerous forests of southern maine" and one of my brothers threw half a rotten pineapple at me and then tripped over it
it was amazing
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so yesterday my brothers and I were filming a movie about "exploring the dark and dangerous forests of southern maine" and one of my brothers threw half a rotten pineapple at me and then tripped over it
it was amazing
Wednesday, May 21, 2014
Tooth in eye as a medical procudure
For people with chronic blindness whose eyes won't accept artificial lens there is a new option for you! You can have a surgeon remove one of your teeth and use it to hold the artificial lens. This really works sometimes.
-Miles
-Miles
Now on Google+ !!!!
We've been working the last few days to set up a Google+ account for The Totally Random Site! Welll... here it is:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/106089545646008491754/posts
Go follow us to keep up with all the TOTALLY RANDOM action!
https://plus.google.com/u/0/106089545646008491754/posts
Go follow us to keep up with all the TOTALLY RANDOM action!
Ebay scandal
So I was on ebay minding my own businesses when I search for authentic newly made Japanese kantanas. So I see a nice hit for a new sword I look at it. It had a nice harmon, had a silk i-to all the stuff you generally look for evan buy direct from maker. So I'm considering it and I see that the shipping address is from Hong Kong. The maker has a Hong Kong shipping address. I mean really people.
-Miles
-Miles
Monday, May 19, 2014
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Saturday, May 17, 2014
Friday, May 16, 2014
The Many Worlds theory
by Tate
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Confession time: Listverse (http://listverse.com) is awesome. My favorite all-time list is "10 Mind-Bending Implications of the Many Worlds Theory." Here's a brief explanation of the Many Worlds Theory from the intro to the list:
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I highly recommend that you click THIS LINK
http://listverse.com/2013/02/22/10-mind-bending-implications-of-the-many-worlds-theory/
to read the full list. Here are a few of the juiciest bits:
• MWI concludes that all values are rolled in some timeline somewhere, even the most unlikely ones—and inevitably, the timeline where the low-probability value gets rolled will be ours. As evidenced by the play described above, which totally happened and decided the outcome of a divisional playoff game.
And there is no ceiling of improbability, other than physics—whatever could possibly occur.
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Confession time: Listverse (http://listverse.com) is awesome. My favorite all-time list is "10 Mind-Bending Implications of the Many Worlds Theory." Here's a brief explanation of the Many Worlds Theory from the intro to the list:
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• In quantum physics—the scientific study of the nature of physical reality—there is plenty of room for interpretation within the realm of what is known. The most popular mainstream interpretation, the Copenhagen interpretation, has as one of its central tenets the concept of wave function collapse. That is to say, every event exists as a “wave function” which contains every possible outcome of that event, which “collapses”—distilling into the actual outcome, once it is observed. For example, if a room is unobserved, anything and everything that could possibly be in that room exists in “quantum superposition”—an indeterminate state, full of every possibility, at least until someone enters the room and observes it, thereby collapsing the wave function and solidifying the reality.
• The role of the observer has long been a source of contention for those who disagree with the theory. The strongest competition to this interpretation, and probably the second most popular mainstream interpretation (meaning, a lot of incredibly smart people think it’s a sound theory) is called the Everett interpretation after Hugh Everett, who first proposed it in 1957. It’s known colloquially as the Many Worlds Interpretation (MWI), because it postulates simply that the wave function never collapses; it simply branches into its own unique world-line, resulting in every possible outcome of every situation existing in physical reality.
I highly recommend that you click THIS LINK
http://listverse.com/2013/02/22/10-mind-bending-implications-of-the-many-worlds-theory/
to read the full list. Here are a few of the juiciest bits:
• MWI concludes that all values are rolled in some timeline somewhere, even the most unlikely ones—and inevitably, the timeline where the low-probability value gets rolled will be ours. As evidenced by the play described above, which totally happened and decided the outcome of a divisional playoff game.
And there is no ceiling of improbability, other than physics—whatever could possibly occur.
• If reality is a continuous cycle—along the lines of “Big Bang, expansion, contraction, collapse, Big Bang again”—then, given what we believe about the Multiverse and its infinite world-lines, you have existed before. In fact, all the infinite versions of you have existed before, and will exist again—and the same goes for all of us, along with every possible idea, creation and situation throughout all of our past and future, across all realities.... In one fell swoop, this concept explains instances of both deja vu and strong feelings of predestination.
• ...while we will all experience dying, we will never experience death—the termination of our consciousness.
• After all, if everything—Atlantis, Luke Skywalker, your neighbor Bill—is as real as everything else, then what is reality but what we perceive? And what is our perception, if not our creation?
Scared yet?
Images from Cracked: http://www.cracked.com/article_17579_7-terrifying-giant-versions-disgusting-critters_p2.html
Thursday, May 15, 2014
6 GIFs that will make you laugh every time
Taken from http://www.buzzfeed.com/summeranne/gifs-that-will-make-you-laugh-every-time
1. The most perfect moment that ever happened.
Stereotypical country singer tweets
TTRS has been scouting Twitter recently. Look for more Birds Rights Activist, Stereotypical Country Singer, and more here on The Totally Random Site.
Wednesday, May 14, 2014
Everyone go win a game of rock paper scissors now.
A group of researchers from Chinese universities have written a paper about the role of psychology in winning (or losing) at rock-paper-scissors. After studying how players change or keep their strategies during multiple-round sessions, they figured out a basic rule that people tend to play by that could potentially be exploited.
The researchers took 360 students, broke them into groups of six, and had them play 300 rounds of rock-paper-scissors in random pairings. The students received small amounts of money each time they won a round. As they played, the researchers observed how the players rotated through the three play options as they won or lost.
What they found was that "if a player wins over her opponent in one play, her probability of repeating the same action in the next play is considerably higher than her probabilities of shifting actions." If a player has lost two or more times, she is likely to shift her play, and more likely to shift to the play that will beat the one that has just beaten her than the same one her opponent just used to beat her. For instance, if Megan loses by playing scissors to Casey's rock, Megan is most likely to switch to paper, which would beat Casey's rock. Per the research, this is a sound strategy, since Casey is likely to keep playing the hand that has been winning. The authors refer to this as the "win-stay, lose-shift" strategy.
Therefore, this is the best way to win at rock-paper-scissors: if you lose the first round, switch to the thing that beats the thing your opponent just played. If you win, don't keep playing the same thing, but instead switch to the thing that would beat the thing that you just played. In other words, play the hand your losing opponent just played. To wit: you win a round with rock against someone else's scissors. They are about to switch to paper. You should switch to scissors. Got it? Good.
This should work unless your opponent has read this article, in which case, you both are in trouble, because you're now living on a plane of RPS strategy the likes of which we can only imagine.
Thanks arstechinca.
10 simple things that are deceptively complex
One of the coolest Listverse lists I've yet read.
Did you know that the proof for "1+1 = 2" is 372 pages long? That rock-paper-scissors is the world's most serious game? That no one really knows how bicycles work? Click the link!
Tuesday, May 13, 2014
Tragic stories
Tragic Stories
• by Tate
1. Once upon a time there was a man named Geoffrey Smithers. Geoffrey enjoyed dumpster diving and was quite good at it. One day while jumping, Geoffrey missed a dumpster and landed on the pavement from twelve stories up. He received severe internal injuries and faces a long recovery.
2. Whales are typically quite large creatures. However, once a whale was born with an interesting condition that prevented him from growing. He remained under ten feet long until he was captured by the Japanese navy, who dissected him for study.
3. A man who worked very long, arduous hours for much of the year was granted a vacation by his boss. Upon his return, his doctor informed him that he had contracted a rare infection while on vacation and had a week to live. The man attempted to vent his anger by attacking his boss with a blunt axe, but he accidentally dropped the axe on his foot, resulting in him contracting yet another rare and fatal infection.
#it is literally impossible to leave texas
* I had to use a bit of an unorthodox technique to upload this Tumblr post (found on Pinterest actually). Even when I enlarged it as much as possible in Blogger, it was still too small to read. What I did was enlarge it in Preview, then take three screenshots and combine them to "enlarge" the entire thing.
Just though you'd all like to know.
~Tate
Socialism is making a comeback!
The following was taken from Listverse:
“Socialism” is considered a dirty word in the United States. Being a hard-working, “free market” capitalist is a part of our national mythology. But it wasn’t always this way. The socialist movement used to be quite strong in the early 20th century. There was even a socialist candidate for president—Eugene V. Debs—who captured 6 percent of the vote in a four-way race in the 1912 presidential election. However, by the early 1920s, an all-out assault on socialists conducted by President Woodrow Wilson had successfully weakened the movement. Since then, people have associated socialism with the Soviet Union and government programs.
Despite this, socialism seems to be slowly making a comeback. Bernie Sanders is the first self-styled democratic socialist in the Senate, and a recent poll indicates that a higher percentage of young people have a more positive opinion of socialism than capitalism.
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