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Do you ever feel like your cat can read your mind? Mine can, but that’s beside the point. I think this “technology” that they’re calling “T9” is actually a lot more sophisticated than I’ve given it credit for. In fact I would go so far as to say that “T9” isn’t “predictive,” it’s “mind reading.”Continue reading “Freudian T9”

Come on, we all have a reason to hate the Lakers. If it’s not Rick Fox and his beautiful wife, well, it’s Rick Fox again with his I wear a facemask because I don’t want to hurt my beautiful smile attitude. Or maybe it’s the way that they always squeak out a lucky victory thatContinue reading “Beat Rick Fox!”

I feel like my Bayesian spam filter is winning the arms race against spammers, or at least making the filtering process managable. One of the side effects of having my mail presorted is that I can evaluate which of my email addresses are attracting the most attention. Over the past few months I’ve been watchingContinue reading “Spam finger”

While walking home from work the other day I passed a group of guys emerging from a pizza joint. After a few handshakes and goodbyes they parted ways and made arrangements for their next meeting. And then one of them yelled across the street, "something me on Thursday." His friend looked a little confused, butContinue reading “Something me”

For those of you not familiar with the Time Cube, it’s no surprise, you’re living in an illusion just like everyone else. Discovered by Gene Ray, this is the Theory Of Everything (TOE). Academics have spent years trying wrap their heads around the 4-corners, 1-corner, 1-corner concept, but they have (of course) been educated stupidContinue reading “Choice Cubicism”

While giving a Blogdex demo today I was startled by the fact that the third site listed was the Wikipedia entry for Jew. After looking at the citations I realized that its position in Blogdex is only a side-effect of a much larger movement to readjust the PageRank for an injustice in the current GoogleContinue reading “Political Googlebombing”

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 aContinue reading “Green tea soymilk”

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 colloquialContinue reading “My chat with a Nanniebot”

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 isContinue reading “T9 Roulette”

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.Continue reading “Radio Vox Populi”