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Clea Can’t Get No Satisfaction; Greg’s Life in Three Dimensions; Jackie Chan and the Masochistic Dragon Swoon; Mep Report Rare Ostrich Steak Attack GO!!!!!; The World According to EPCOT; We’re Much More Trekkie Than You; and Sometimes Horrible Is In The Middle of Good.
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This video, “Four Letter Words,” is cool for several reasons. First of all, this engineer has found a way to depict all 26 letters in an arrangement of fluorescent bars; the linguistic equivalent of a digital clock radio display. Secondly, the words that come up are entirely of the computer’s choosing. They are assembled by an algorithm from a word association database.
So, yeah. Those strings of words were actually chosen by the computer, itself. HAL seems rather repressed. I’d leave those pod bay doors closed if I were you.
Just in time for April Fools, Google’s Andriod phone unveils its Animal Speech Translation App.
Thanks to the Titans of Internet Industry, Google, anyone with a computer and an internet connection can now create an ad campaign and purchase network or cable time slots relatively cheaply. Here’s a little video discovery of this amazing new service run by the folks at Slate.
Only 2200 years after Archimedes used a mirror-powered heat ray to ignite invading Roman barges, modern humans have found that death rays prove an ample source of energy.
The Mep that Neither Begins nor Ends; How Improv Can Either Save the World or Destroy it; Murderous Shepherds and Other Little Known Cultural Legacies; Gladwell’s Advocate; Privacy – Destroyer of all Things; and Why Asians are Great at Math (but Terrible at Piloting).
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MIT Chemistry Professor, Dan Nocera claims to have solved that pesky little energy production problem we humans have been struggling with. Rather than telling us how, exactly, he plans on using photosynthesis to create and store energy, he prefers to deliver his gospel in the form of a disjointed PowerPoint presentation.
I was going to post this as a comment on Russ’ post, but I have enough to say that it warrants one of these ranty point-counterpoint things we love so much on TMR.
