Furiousmind

While Alexandra has the task of writing the more serious and useful stuff (see previous post), I entitle myself as the person who writes the superfluous and useless posts.To honour the title I’ve just designated for myself, I write this post to tell you that the smiley :-) was first used by professor Scott E. Fahlman from Carnegie Mellon University (see picture above). Fahlman posted it in a message to an online bulletin board at 11:44 AM on September 19, 1982. Here is Scott’s original post:

19-Sep-82 11:44    Scott E  Fahlman             :-)
From: Scott E  Fahlman

I propose that the following character sequence for joke markers:

:-)

Read it sideways.  Actually, it is probably more economical to mark
things that are NOT jokes, given current trends.  For this, use

:-(

You can find much more information about this fact in this Mike Jone’s page.

If you didn’t know this, you can now impress your friends by telling them this useless, yet interesting, piece of information :-)

Today is Halloween, the day where the youngsters are all happy knocking on the doors asking for sweets and the adults are in the dark doing their best to hide from the kids…

Oops there’s a kid coming in this direction! Turn the lights off!!! TURN THE LIGHTS OFF!!!

What a nice day :)

This post is just to tell you about a petition that is trying to achieve recognition and protection of animals. They need 10 million signatures, but, unfortunately, they are far from that goal.

The description, extracted from the site, is:

Help us achieve global recognition that animals matter, that they can feel pain and can suffer and that we have a responsibility to put an end to cruelty around the world. We seek 10 million signatures to let the governments of the world know we are serious about achieving a Universal Declaration on Animal Welfare at the United Nations.

If you care about animals, please go to their website and sign the petition. Besides that, you can help them spreading the word.