File under common sense.
A family court judge in New Zealand has had enough with parents giving their children bizarre names here, and did something about it.
Just ask Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii. He had her renamed.
Judge Rob Murfitt made the 9-year-old girl a ward of the court so that her name could be changed, he said in a ruling made public Thursday. The girl was involved in a custody battle, he said.
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In his ruling, Murfitt cited a list of the unfortunate names.
Registration officials blocked some names, including Fish and Chips, Yeah Detroit, Keenan Got Lucy and Sex Fruit, he said. But others were allowed, including Number 16 Bus Shelter “and tragically, Violence,” he said.
[via The Associated Press]
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Every day I visit Digg and bury every article on the front page.
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Is Schrödinger’s cat dead or alive?
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A man walks in to a Barbershop and the barber says, “What will it be today?”
The man responds, “Well I want it going with my waves on top, faded on one side, plug the other, and just make it all out of shape and messed up.”
The barber says, “Now why in the world do you want your hair cut like that?”
The man replies, “That’s how you cut it last time.”
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The movie you’re gonna watch is a Visual Cognition Experiment, you are only allowed to watch it once. Seriously, don’t cheat!
In the video you will see a group of basketball players, some in white and some in black passing two balls around. Your goal is to count how many times the ball is passed by those wearing white shirts.
It’s that simple.
Remember, count just the passes of the ball by those wearing white.
Once the movie is over, write down the number of passes you have counted. Do not watch the video again. Follow up with your results on this page and in my entries’ comments.
Step 1: The experiment begins here.
Step 2: Follow up with your results here
Let me know how you did in the comments for this entry. 
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Why was Six scared of Seven?
…because Seven ate Nine.
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George Bush surprised world leaders with a joke about his poor record on the environment as he left the G8 summit in Japan.
The American leader, who has been condemned throughout his presidency for failing to tackle climate change, ended a private meeting with the words: “Goodbye from the world’s biggest polluter.”
He then punched the air while grinning widely, as the rest of those present including Gordon Brown and Nicolas Sarkozy looked on in shock.
This news article sounds like something out of The Onion.
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Does anyone have a recommendation for online budgeting software?
I’m looking to begin budgeting my bank accounts, 401(k), pension, and other investments. Quicken seems nice, but before I go and invest in a piece of software I was curious if there are some options I’m overlooking.
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Google is in the process of rolling out a new security feature to Gmail. The feature will show how many sessions your Gmail account is logged into, what sort of sessions they are (Web, Mobile, POP3, etc.), and gives you the ability to remotely sign out your additional sessions.
A quick glance at the footer while logged in will show if your account is open in other locations. Clicking on the details link will allow you to see more information about your account’s recent activity.
The feature is being added to the newest version of Gmail, designed to run on IE7 and Firefox. It will add a further layer of security to protect our bank alerts and love letters. 
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Flip a coin: Fifty per-cent of the time the coin will land heads and fifty per-cent of the time it will land tails—right?
Not according to a study which suggests that coin tossing is inherently biased; a coin is more likely to land on the same face it started out on.
This discovery is based on some 1986 work done by the mathematician Joseph Keller. He argued that the only fair way to toss a coin is to toss it so vigorously that it spins perfectly around the horizontal axis in the center. Since it’s impossible to throw it with such precision, every other toss becomes biased—because the coin spins around a tilted axis. The end result is a coin will land on the same face it started on 51 per-cent of the time.
Furthermore, in experiments, the researchers were surprised to find that it’s difficult to tell from watching a coin whether it has flipped. A coin toss typically takes just half a second, with the circumference of the coin whizzing around at 3 meters per second. What’s more, the coin’s spin makes it wobble, often creating the illusion that the coin has flipped.
“Sometimes we had the complete impression that the coin had turned over when it really hadn’t,” Holmes says.
Magicians and charlatans may take advantage of this illusion. Keller observes, “Some people can throw the coin up so that it just wobbles but looks to the observer as if it is turning over.”
…and if you’ve ever tried to perform a coin-flip by spinning the coin on its edge on a table; watch out:
[These biases pale] when compared with that of spinning a coin on its edge. A spinning penny will land as tails about 80 percent of the time, Diaconis says, because the extra material on the head side shifts the center of mass slightly.
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