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Half-trends

Analysis and graphing of half baked trends
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How does the number of half baked ideas submitted this month compare to the rest of the year?
Which year had the worst ideas?
Which day of the week produces the most contraversial ideas?
Popularity of ideas containing the word "pirate" compared to those containing the word "weapon"

Also if you link the statistics to the geographical area of the user's IP address you could get the following stats:
Which country is most generous in giving out buns?
Which country is responsible for the worst ideas?
Which country is most active in half bakery?
Which country is responsible for submitting the most ideas with the word "squeezable" in them?
etc ...
ixnaum, May 13 2006

meta_3a_20statistics [xaviergisz, May 13 2006]

Statistaholics unite Halfbakery_20Metric_20System
[normzone, May 13 2006]

Halfbakers' Locations Halfbakers_27_20Homes
Little baker embassies across the world. [hidden truths, May 13 2006]

A Sisyphean Task http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisyphus
In case you didn't know, or, like me, forgot. [Canuck, May 13 2006]

Word of the day: Ozymandian. http://maverickphil...ts/1133457889.shtml
Not in the OED yet. [jutta, May 13 2006]

Google Trends http://www.google.c...=0&geo=all&date=all
[jutta, May 13 2006]

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       Beat you to it - [link]
normzone, May 13 2006
  

       I'd like to be able to print out all the closed letters like the "o" s, "B"s, "q"s etc, so that I can colour them in. Each one should be numbered and dated - Camera cuts to Jutta enthusiastically rushing to keyboard to organise in a fever of anticipation........
xenzag, May 13 2006
  

       There are probably easier ways to find out the country of bakers (see link).
hidden truths, May 13 2006
  

       ZT - let's have both versions then decide which one looks better once it's coloured in - and throw in all the zeros for good measure.
xenzag, May 13 2006
  

       zt, would the term *Sisyphean* apply? (see link)
Canuck, May 13 2006
  

       Hm, not quite, Canuck. Sisyphean implies futility in the sense of the task itself being undone; zen_tom is looking for futility in the sense of ultimate meaninglessness. More like that "look upon my works, ye mortals, and despair" guy. Wossname. Ozymandias! Ozymandian?
jutta, May 13 2006
  

       I have two printer icons on my desktop - the one that outputs in colour is labelled Ozymandarin - because although its works be mighty, I always gaze upon their orange bias in despair - (bad colour profiles that my feeble computer skills have so far failed to correct)   

       Sisyphus - is that when your sister gets into a needless panic?
xenzag, May 13 2006
  

       //Something completely pointless, yet which requires a massive amount of effort (the pointlessness of the task being entirely obvious at the outset) but which is undertaken anyway, resulting in a beautiful and monumental gesture of <whatever word this definition is a definition of>. Is there a word for that?//

H a l f b a k e r y.
DrBob, May 13 2006
  

       sp: halfbakery   

       :P   

       the place where people use words like //Sisyphean//   

       and futility <mental note to look one of them up in the morning>
po, May 13 2006
  

       C'est magnifique, mais ce n'est pas le beurre.   

       Assuming, zen_tom, that such a word as you seek does not exist within the realm of "legitimate" English, then you are as Tantalus. Close, but never a cigar.
calum, Nov 04 2008
  
      
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