We’re all set for a knight of wonders!

On our vacation, we’ve booked a reservation for dinner at Medieval Times!

Just because it’s fun!

I see said the Blind Man

I now understand why!!
love that UNIX!!

When are you going to make it available to others??

It’s still being counted, but it’s currently at $95M and counting!

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These certainly aren’t Harry Potter number, but they are very respectable. I think Fellowship will pass Harry Potter by the end of January and go on to win many Academy Awards.

Out of respect for Dave Winer, CEO of Userland Software, creator of Manila, I’ve renamed my CMS.

It’s the highest ranked movie in current release with a 3.8 GPA (out of 4.0)! Excellent!!!

Menalie Hauser chimes in with what she’d like to see next year in the world of golf.

Some of these wishes are just wonderful.

I can’t believe it, but Fellowship has displaced titles such as “The Godfather” and “The Shawshank Redemption” at the #1 spot!

[[The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring]] is now #1. I don’t know how long it will remain at the top of the list, but after looking at the formula, it will become very difficult for it to be knocked off its pedestal.

###The Formula

The formula for calculating the top 250 films gives a true Bayesian estimate:

weighted rank (WR) = (v / (v+m)) ** R + (m / (v+m)) ** C

where:

• **R** = average for the movie (mean) = (Rating)
• **v** = number of votes for the movie = (votes)
• **m** = minimum votes required to be listed in the top 250 (currently 1250)
• **C** = the mean vote across the whole report (currently 6.9)

What does all this mathematical gibberish mean? Well, it means that as more and more votes are cast, the **MEDIAN*’ (mathematical average) of the rankings matters more than the ‘*MEAN**. I believe that this is an attempt by the [[IMDB]] to give more weight to the average rank of a movie as more and more people decide to vote on it (which makes sense).

And right now, the median is 9.5 while the mean is 6.9, so as I understand it, as more votes are cast, if they are cast around the current median, the value that’s used for the rankings will approach 9.5, which is a full 1/2 point higher than the second place movie! Unbelievable!!!!