Archive for December, 2007
FreeRice
December 27th, 2007
FreeRice is a lovely little vocabulary game. For each correctly chosen synonym, FreeRice donates 20 grains of rice to the UN World Food Program. The funding comes from advertising, I believe.
Richard Powers
December 25th, 2007
Certain cultures believe that, through cannibalism, a person can acquire the skills and attributes of the deceased. Hopefully an act of figurative cannibalism will bring about the same results.
Past attempts, however, have unfortunately proved ineffective.
The Mechanical Turk
December 25th, 2007
The Turk was an ingenious chess-playing “machine” devised in 1770 by Wolfgang von Kempelen. A really wonderful description of it can be found here.
The modern-day equivalent is Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, which uses people to perform simple tasks of object recognition.
There’s something really fascinating about fake AI…
An XKCD Ripoff
December 22nd, 2007
For additional explanation, see this informative link! I… I’m not sure what’s happened to my life…
Julia’s drunk. Drunk on blogging.
An Indigo Bunting
December 21st, 2007
The indigo bunting is a rather lovely bird which is native to most of the States, especially the East Coast. It has beautiful plumage.
Kitchen Gun
December 17th, 2007
I LOVE YOU KITCHEN GUN!
What’s that? Wish you could use kitchen gun in the bathroom? Then try new Toilet Grenade!
Gatsby Wax
December 14th, 2007
Here’s a new and vile thing. Japanese commercials are pretty much the worst.
Make sure you see this fine runner-up.
