The quackometer is a project based around the automation of debunking quack medicine on the web. The web is full of pages supporting dubious medical claims and inflated capabilities for cures. The freedom that the web gives us to express our views, entertain and do business also gives quacks a way to make a living by promoting nonsense treatments to unsuspecting people.
Spotting these web sites appears to be easy when you know what to look out for. If it is that easy, can the process be automated? The quackometer project intends to find out.
grrr they always spoil our fun!
http://www.quackometer.net/default.php?url=http://derrenbrownart.com/blog
So, er, yeah. That.
It’s better to tell your own quack … try to make a difference .. lots of quacks around nearby … they dozed off I’d say, a bit too much .. don’t supersize the quacks … supervise them ..
Quack quack quack…does something as Quackotongue exist?… like sizzletongue as in the Harry Potters…
‘Thy has been born with evil blood, but are gifted with an understanding of both language good and bad…’
ehrrm…
Cannot believe there are no Flapjack puns on this post. Is he ill or maybe just lucky and on a luxurious holiday?
won the lottery! Quack! Quack!
@ Flapjack: post 6. I’m already cheesed off that there’s evidently a Flapjack imposter on Twitter… this is turning into the last act of Spartacus (or life of Brian)! Don’t make me come down there!
I’m the original Flapjack (behold my syrupy and oatey glory) and if there are any lottery winnings out there with my name on them, they’re mine!
Re-quackometer, I guess it all comes down to the symptoms of the ‘mallard-y’!
@Original Flapjack: Don’t they say ‘imitation is the sincerest form of flattery’. Think you should be feeling honoured that someone is trying to usurp your position as DB blog punmaster.
KatM – True, I suppose I should be flattered, but I’d still prefer it if everyone stuck to their own names… that way if Flapjack the pretender starts saying stuff I don’t agree with or coming up with some really atrocious puns I don’t want to take credit for, I don’t have to run around the blog putting out tedious disclaimers like this one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOCsNrzlV2k
“I’m Brian, and so’s my wife!”
@Flapjack. You crack me up! I confess. I was the quack. I thought it would be appropriate for this post. All in the name of some good ole quackery.
BTW I would never express my own opinions using someone else’s name. That’s rather cowardly.
However if you still insist on a dual, meet me at dusk, bring a sword and both your balls. I don’t take prisoners!
Flapjack versus Flapjack, why am I reminded of a movie with Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep?!?
OK flapjack [if that's really your name] I’ll let you off this once, but from hereon in I’d appreciate it if you created your own moniker and stopped being me. There are many other cake-related monikers which haven’t been taken yet. That way we can be friends. No sword or balls required
This is a thing of beauty. Flapjack is reproducing like an amoeba, splitting off copies of himself to spread punful glory across the whole internet. We need one copy for every blog out there.
SGC – OK, now I’m disturbed. If the Flapjacks are multiplying, I’m going to have to add raisins or chunks of dried apple and cinnamon to keep myself individual!
It’s this kind of unauthorised cloning that could give someone a identity crisis
But if you add cinnamon or raisins, further self-clones will also have those attributes! The clones of earlier clones will not. That could lead to interesting variations.
You could always patent your genes, like the people who came up with Glofish.
Flapjack: a cherry version would be nice or perhaps one of thosethat’s yoghurt topped with apple and blackberry filling sandwiched in the middle