I finally took the time to look over the logs to my site
The most prolific visitors to my site are me, googlebot and slurp. (Slurp is yahoo's spider)
A mac user visited my site several times, that would probably be my webmaster.
One fellow from australia apparently searched for lego midstorms (I think that must have been optional, because I don't believe I have those words on my site - have I?). Also, someone in france searched for "like fanta shokata".
(I do like fanta shokata, I just think that my elderflower lemonade is even better ;-)
Bizarrely, someone searching for "and taht be yas and no" from google.com entered my site. Hope you found wath you're looking for freind, cause I shure don't know what it is (typos perhaps?). Ah, it's my reversed blog entry, it shows up as number two on that search (the other top hits are also reverse text entries)
Also from australia, someone searched for ... something? what's a mutnauq? I will have to try some weird word searches and see if my weblog turns up... Hey!
It's quantum in reverse!!! Another reversed word. Wow, perhaps I should write more entries like that :-) Bizarrely, a lot of other people have written reverse entries mentioning mutnauq.
The MSN bot has also found my site, apparently. On that day, 18. march, googlebot hit my site over twenty times. Hmm, I wonder why? Perhaps I made a comment somewhere with a link to my blog in the title. In all likelihood I did something to attract attention to my site, that would explain why MSN found it as well.
Curiously, the blogspammers who occasionally post here (and get deleted as soon as I see them) don't show up in the logs, or at least they don't stand out. Perhaps that's because these logs are quite old...
Is anyone else disgusted by the rash of internet iq-tests, iq-based game shows, and all that BS?
Intelligence can effectively be measured by a single number, so they say. Why do people believe it?
I am at a loss. I can only say that when googling, I can't seem to find a single page criticizing the idea, only rather rabid advocates of eugenics and what's worse. On the page of one white supremacist I did find an article from a scientific journal criticizing the traditional idea of iq, but it wasn't even very readable, and of course it was interspaced with rants from the site's owner. I won't even bother linking to it.
Even the Densa web page is gone. Even this humorous, but careful, protest from the society open to the bottom 98% iq-rated of society, is gone.
It really really disappoints me when I see people I respect are in Mensa. I could understand it if it was just a love of the quizzical, the joy of solving abstract puzzles - I'd join it myself, in an instant! But unfortunately love of puzzles, or love of any kind, is not what mensa is about. It's about the belief that their ability to solve various puzzles sets them fundamentally apart from other people. And I'm not interested in "proving" that I am more worth than my neighbor.
I do like puzzles, particulary those that are easy to grasp and hard to master. The fellow I said I respected, I respect him for writing such great puzzles. and sharing them. Sometimes I wish my friends (and my spouse! :-) shared my interest in puzzles, but it's an interest, nothing more.
Cyril was a good ol'fashioned racist. The first Mensa president, and he verifiably falsified data and even invented co-authors in order to support his hypothesis that some "races" were more intelligent than others. For you who consider joining mensa, or perhaps already did, perhaps flattered by the praise of people coming to you saying that this "scientific" test proves you have exceptional potential, I ask you to think about that. It shouldn't suprise anyone. It's no coincidence, just like it's no coincidence that IQ-tests used to be the litmus test of the eugenics movement. Mensa people: do you approve of this? If not, why join an organization that is fundamentally antidemocratic, antihumanistic, not to say anti-christian?
There's something about mensa that reminds me about scientologists, I can't quite explain why, but perhaps the link can.
This is a weblog, therefore the writing style just ... IS like this. I apologize to those
whom
it might offend.