ah – summer has arrived and life is good. random discoveries on the internets make it a little bit better

sporalogy is a jocular pseudoscience invented by the finnish professor and skeptic nils mustelin in the 1980s as a parody of astrology. sporalogy is the art or science of determining a person’s fate from the positions that the helsinki city transport’s trams were in at the moment of the person’s birth. this is a direct analogy to, or parody of, determining a person’s fate from the position of the planets and the constellations. after all, claims mustelin, the trams in helsinkiare so much nearer the person in question, so surely they have a greater effect than the distant planets and stars. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/sporalogy