Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Scavenger hunt Week 4

Okay so here goes... for my essay i have chosen to write about 'Violent video games and its effect on todays youth'. I havnt really got a lot of infrmation at the moment but do have a basic idea of the topic and hopefully will do well :)
Heres the scavenger hunt.. some of the questons were quite a mission but the rest were prettyy straight forward and easy to find.
1. World's biggest pumpkin weighs an incredible 1502 pounds.source: http://www.pumpkinnook.com/giants/record.htm
2. Easiest way to contact Grant Hackett wouls be to probably ring him or mail him unfortunately i could not find any info on him whereabouts.
3. An adult Giraffes toungue is 27 inches long.source: http://www.qeok.com/other/2843-qeok.html
4. An ontology is like a formal specification of a program and a description of the concepts and relationships that can exist for an agent or a community of agents.source: http://www-ksl.stanford.edu/kst/what-is-an-ontology.html
5. David Cronenberg's first feature film was called 'shivers' and was also known as "the oarasite murders' and 'they came from within'.source: http://www.salon.com/people/bc/1999/11/30/cronenberg/
6. The origianl Hacker's manifesto was written in 1986.source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifesto
7. All phones start with '555' in Hollywood in order to prevent the real subscribers from being harrassed by people trying out the number quoted on the screen as no english place has a name that uses all the three lettlers on the number '5' and thats how numbers used to be given out earlier in the United States.sources: http://www.omegarobot.com/article/555.html
8. Buses are the cheapest form of transportation to get from Crete to Rhodes.source: http://www.theplaka.com/travel/getaround.htm
9. The top song in the Austrlian Pop Charts in 1965 was Que Sera Sera by Normie Rowe and The Playboys.source: http://www.onmc.iinet.net.au/AUST/65.htm
10. Stephen Stockwell played keyboards and vocals for a punk band named 'The Black Assasins".source: http://www.griffith.edu.au/school/art/staff/stockwell.htm

Okay now the second part...

A search engine is a database situated on the internet that basically helps you search the entire web for a particular topic. By typing words and sentances into the search engine you can easily access anything over the entire internet.

The ranking of a search engine works by using any the combination of the words typed in to obtain the most informable websites. I personnally like Google search engine the best simply because i find it the easiest to access and use.

WHEW.... now time for a ciggy :)

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