In the five years since The New Yorker started the weekly cartoon-caption contest, readers have submitted something like a million and a half entries to….
By Robert Mankoff The New Yorker, November 1, 2010 P. 89 In the five years since The New Yorker started the weekly cartoon-caption contest, readers have submitted something like a million and a half entries to produce two hundred and fifty-seven winners.
In the five years since The New Yorker started the weekly cartoon-caption contest, readers have submitted something like a million and a half entries to produce two hundred and fifty-seven winners.
Five years and more than a million and a half entries later, a Google search for "cartoon caption contest" yields about 292,000 results; the first page includes contests run by newspapers in Boston, Orlando, and Denver, and an information-technology news site.
After months of speculation, on December 16th Mr Bush announced his decision to "actively explore the possibility" of running for president in 2016.That half-entry into the race will trigger a torrent of analysis about what sort of Republican Mr Bush is.
Approximately half the entry is on the Greek moralists Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoics.
An hour of streaming a programme using, for example, the BBC iPlayer mobile app, can use up to 225MB - almost half the entry level tariff's data allowance limit.
Around half of entries for experiments have a null (empty) entry in the fields where these data should be recorded.
The last item in Oxford's half-column entry, however, gets us where Senators Clinton and McCain want us to go: 3.b.
By building upon acquisitions such as Metaweb's Freebase, Google now has about half billion entries of all kinds.
If you are under 25 you can get into the abbey for free, and get half-price entry to the four museums.
