Fantastic.

http://www.joke-pages.com/jokes/images/org-calc.swf

To quote Marillion, "Thank God For the Internet"

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About time.

www.msdewey.com

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Upload your Microsoft Word Document to this website, and it returns useful info on readability. Below is the report for my short story, Suicide Kings....

Readability Report for SuicideKings.doc
readability grades:
Kincaid: 6.3
ARI: 8.2
Coleman-Liau: 9.8
Flesch Index: 82.4
Fog Index: 8.4
Lix: 35.3 = school year 5
SMOG-Grading: 6.9
sentence info:
47454 characters
10919 words, average length 4.35 characters = 1.25 syllables
599 sentences, average length 18.2 words
46% (281) short sentences (at most 13 words)
15% (95) long sentences (at least 28 words)
190 paragraphs, average length 3.2 sentences
3% (18) questions
40% (240) passive sentences
longest sent 112 wds at sent 510; shortest sent 1 wds at sent 90
word usage:
verb types:
to be (304) auxiliary (118)
types as % of total:
conjunctions 5(588) pronouns 11(1171) prepositions 12(1283)
nominalizations 0(44)
sentence beginnings:
pronoun (150) interrogative pronoun (23) article (116)
subordinating conjunction (16) conjunction (9) preposition (30)


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Finally! I have been waiting for this online service. Makes it very easy to order an assassination. I ordered 'the Works' which, according to the website is

'...combined strangling, stabbing, bludgoning, shooting, and dismembering.'

For a meager $75.29.

By the way, if Chris Carrabarra owes you any money or favors, you might want to collect soon.

I'm just sayin...

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Less than a year ago, I had this great idea to offer a service where people could call you and pretend to be someone, your mother, your boss, your friend, your Significant Other, etc... There must be thousands of possibilities for this service, but my initial thought was that some people just want someone to talk to like a friend, maybe just to bitch or complain about things. On the other hand, they don't want to regret what they said, or they don't want 'the word to get out' and have it come back to haunt them later. So, there is clearly a market for a service employing people who couldn't cut it in the phone sex industry, listening to people blather about their psychotic boyfriends, or how High School Math is such a drag, and "When the hell am I going to use Algebra in my modeling/movie-producing/forest-rangering career?"

While it isn't quite as interactive as my idea, the popularity dialer is a great alternative.
Sign up (free) and calls that you schedule (date and time) are made to your phone. Don't want to hang around the party past midnight, and don't have any kids to call you up? You are set. Don't want to be stuck in a meeting all day? Have popularity dialer bail you out. Want to seem important with six calls during the lunch hour? All set.

The first five calls from popularity dialer are free.

I can see this service being extended to tie in with some calendaring program (google calendar, outlook, sunbird...) and calling you with warnings of birthdays, anniversaries, bills due, library books due etc.

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