I’ll admit that I’m a total sucker for supermarket sale items. I’m not an avid coupon-clipper but when someone puts a giant yellow sign with a price on it next to an item it greatly increases the odds that I’ll buy it. My latest impulse purchase was a product called Green Tea Soymilk at a [...]
A week ago I read an interesting article in the New Scientist about a savvy conversational robot that was watching chat rooms to make sure that everyone was on their best behavior. Reading the dialog generated by the robot, I was floored by its sophistication and savvy. With nuanced jokes, the ability to parse colloquial [...]
I have invented a game to use up the massive number of text messages that T-Mobile allots me every month. It’s called T9 roulette. It goes a little something like this: Pick someone in your phonebook, preferably not mom or your boss. For the purpose of this description we’ll call her Maurice. Write "Maurice is [...]
Over the past week I’ve been working on turning weblogs into an art installation. I really wanted to visualize in some way the current activity within the weblog world. Riding an early title from blogdex (“wired vox populi“), I thought it would be interesting to see what the voice of the people actually sounded like. [...]