Sturgeon's revelation, commonly referred to as Sturgeon's law, is an adage commonly cited as "ninety percent of everything is crap." It is derived from quotations by Theodore Sturgeon, an American science fiction author and critic: while Sturgeon coined another adage that he termed "Sturgeon's law", it is his "revelation" that is usually referred to by that term. The phrase was derived from Sturgeon's observation that while science fiction was often derided for its low quality by critics, it could be noted that the majority of examples of works in other fields could equally be seen to be o...

Mobile phone |genre = Puzzle |modes = Single-player |ratings = |platforms = Game Boy Advance, mobile phone |media = 64-megabit ROM cartridge, download }} It's Mr. Pants is a puzzle video game developed by Rare. It was published by THQ for the Game Boy Advance (GBA) handheld game console in North America in 2004 and Europe in 2005. The game was published internationally on mobile phones by In-Fusio in both 2005 and 2006. The game stars Mr. Pants, a crudely-drawn website mascot for Rare's online surveys. Gameplay The basic idea of the game is to create rectangles which have to be two-by-...

Als Folgetonhorn (manchmal auch als Tonfolgehorn) wird generell eine akustische Einrichtung an Fahrzeugen bezeichnet, die nacheinander mehrere Signaltöne verschiedener Grundfrequenzen abgibt. Hierunter wird in Europa ein Teil der Warnanlage verstanden. Diese Einrichtung – sie ist für den Privatgebrauch verboten – wird in Deutschland als Sondersignalanlage bezeichnet und in hierzu berechtigten (Einsatz-)Fahrzeugen bestimmter Behörden und Organisationen mit Sicherheitsaufgaben, z. B. Hilfsorganisationen verwendet. Man spricht hier auch vom Einsatz- oder (umgangssprachlich) Martinshorn (siehe...

Modern English (sometimes New English as opposed to Middle English and Old English) is the form of the English language spoken since the Great Vowel Shift in England, completed in roughly 1550. With some differences in vocabulary, texts from the early 17th century, such as the works of William Shakespeare and the King James Bible, are considered to be in Modern English, or more specifically, are referred to as using Early Modern English or Elizabethan English. English was adopted in regions around the world, such as North America, the Indian subcontinent, Africa, Australia and New Zealan...