All 3 entries tagged Mistake

Everyone Loves Bloopers

I particularly like the Self Healing Porsche and the Stormtrooper…

: 24 Dec 2006 13:00 |  Tags: Blooper Funny Mistake Randomness Video |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Watchdog Sudoku

This is a screenshot from the Watchdog on the 28th. It was during a segment about a company offering dirt-cheap mobile phones on contracts where various puzzles and games were used in various contexts – such as a word search for the victims’ names – with this particular one being used to display amounts of money. However, if you know anything about sudoku puzzles, you’ll see they haven’t quite grasped the concept:

: 30 Nov 2006 14:00 |  Tags: Mistake Randomness Sudoku TV Watchdog |  Comments (4) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Nitwit

Follow-up to Poster Woes from The randomness of tomorrow, today!

I've also just noticed a huge, massive, really stupid mistake:

On the poster I have an equation that correctly says that the velocity is proportional to the depth of the water; as the water get shallower the wave slows down.
However, the text I wrote to acompany this diagram says the complete opposite; that the velocity is inversely proportional.
This happens just after a section of text giving the correct relation.

Bugger…

: 29 Nov 2005 10:12 |  Tags: Communicating Science Mistake Poster Printer University |  Comments (1) |  Close comments |  Report a problem