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2011-02-23T12:57:00.001Z

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Google A.I.

2005-11-01T01:53:00.000Z

" Google is Turing's cathedral, awaiting its soul. We hope. In thewords of an unusually perceptive friend: "When I was there, justbefore the IPO, I thought the coziness to be almost overwhelming.Happy Golden Retrievers running in slow motion through watersprinklers on the lawn. People waving and smiling, toys everywhere. Iimmediately suspected that unimaginable evil was happening somewherein the

Reinventing Radio: On Phonetags...

2005-08-30T00:03:00.000Z

But it's behind the scenes that I think the most substantial value could be created. We're getting in incredible metadata on music that we simply didn't have before - metadata and descriptive (emotive!) keywords that we can analyse and chop up and use as the basis for all kinds of other navigational systems. This is metadata that is often sorely lacking and could help us enormously in the future.

Flickr

2005-04-30T14:42:00.000Z

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

vent open, spleen everywhere

2005-04-30T14:39:00.000Z

So. This is where I shall vent. For there is venting to be done, and better here than with a pointed stick. Sadly, though, today has been nark-free. Perhaps not so sadly.

2004-05-18T23:09:00.000Z

THE NITE-OWL In strode a man in the shape of a man, holding a hat shaped hat. I’d seen him a dozen times before, and laughed a dozen more at his rancorous flirtations with the ageing behemoth behind the counter. He’d held a fascination for me since the first time I walked into the Nite Owl, and he was the reason I walked an extra block for my 4am cup of coffee. There aren’t many things I’ll

2004-05-11T00:08:00.000Z

It's time to start over here once more, and, well, sloe gin fizz works mighty fine when you drink it by the pitcher and not by the glass. And a pitcher to go.

2004-04-22T18:51:00.000Z

Where's my G-Mail then?

2003-07-19T22:48:00.000Z

Ananova - Purple polar bear brings in the crowds ruth says she saw this purple polar bear on News24. She hadn't slept for a while so I reckon tis a hoax and milady milwig was just hallucinating....

2003-07-19T16:36:00.000Z

Amazon.co.uk: Medal of Honor: Allied Assault

2003-07-19T16:17:00.000Z

Gilmore: I was ejected from a plane for wearing "Suspected Terrorist" badge

2003-06-30T00:22:00.000Z

... he slowly removed a shred of tobacco from his lower lip ...

2003-05-19T15:39:00.000Z

Diversification is the key So, um, and, as always, yeah. I now have a LiveJournal, which, as it's name suggests, will be more of a journal than this here blog. I've also found somewhere that'll host pics & music for free, so there'll be all sorts of fun stuff here from now on too, but when i put stuff on there i'll mention it hither or thither. So. Much confusion. Would much rather have a

2003-05-16T13:25:00.000Z

n.b. obscurity is not security

2003-05-16T13:15:00.000Z

Harper's Index-style list of GW Bush's accomplishments in and out of the Presidency, presented as a résumé. Accomplishments as president: * Attacked and took over two countries. * Spent the surplus and bankrupted the treasury. * Shattered record for biggest annual deficit in history. * Set economic record for most private bankruptcies filed in any 12 month period. * Set all-time

2003-05-15T20:54:00.000Z

Star Wars in telnet form. I shit you not. ...link... and then in 'fat kid becomes geek hero' form ...link...

2003-05-15T18:53:00.000Z

How to write an essay... This sounds very familiar. All she needs to do know is do it twice, 1 year apart. ...link...

2003-05-14T18:11:00.000Z

Weight estimates on air passengers set to rise - Fatter Americans not mentioned as cause ...link...

2003-05-13T17:50:00.000Z

The History of the Internet Progress: Since its inception almost 30 years ago, the internet has been transformed from a primitive device for sharing thoughts and ideas, into a massive network where people pay to connect and read advertisements they don't want, while calling each other "asshats". ...link...

2003-05-12T14:52:00.000Z

The Orange Blogger has been sent to the 2nd Circle, while i languish in the 7th. Violent? Moi? The Dante's Inferno Test has banished you to the Seventh Level of Hell!Here is how you matched up against all the levels:LevelScorePurgatory (Repenting Believers)Very LowLevel 1 - Limbo (Virtuous Non-Believers)HighLevel 2 (Lustful)HighLevel 3 (Gluttonous)ModerateLevel 4 (Prodigal and Avaricious)Very

2003-05-11T12:52:00.000Z

This post is composed completely of non-truths, and is not copied from iconomy I'm lying about that. This sentence, and the sentence that preceeds this sentence, and even the title of the post - they are all lies. Even this sentence is a lie. And every sentence after this one? Lies. All lies. The French Ministry of Culture has projected that 87 per cent of all French post-modernists will have

2003-05-10T21:45:00.000Z

bizarre ebay comments: I'll bid on you til there's nothing left but crumbs! Then I'll bid on the crumbs Rotilla is a GOOD name for my wife. Don't call her "Hey, STUMPY" again. I once had a fork. It looked like a spoon, so I called it a spoon. Was I wrong? I've carefully avoided typing the number 6 for 32 years now.Times change I guess. ...link...

2003-05-10T16:52:00.000Z

Where are British men going? Analysis of census results find that there are 81,300 more women than men among people in their 20s, leading to a shortage of marriageable men. And the reason, the Office for National Statistics says, is that young men are emigrating. The unanswered question is why. The black-now-greying sheep of my family buggered off to Canada, but that was because of the

2003-05-10T13:03:00.000Z

I like the world from 6pm til 4am. - - - - I just need to find a job that likes it too.

2003-05-09T13:07:00.000Z

Lordy, lordy. WindowsXP may be the most patronising piece of software in existence. BUT, .it works stupidly well. ADSL modem - working fine. Graphics card - fandabbydozy. Now for everything else...

2003-05-09T09:36:00.000Z

Warren Ellis reads my thoughts and regurgitates them for your reading pleasure: Guess what? If there's extra-terrestrial life, the odds are good that they simply don't think like us. In fact, the odds of them developing technologically in a similar way to us utterly stink. As I've said in more than one book, alien means alien. It means not like us. So, you know, maybe they're not creating an

2003-05-08T20:25:00.000Z

So, um, yeah. Mondo tiredness, and the imminent arrival of my new PC means today's blogging will consist entirely of filching good stuff from the blogroll over there [ --> ] If we are not alone in the Universe, why have we never picked up signals from an extraterrestrial civilisation? This long-standing puzzle, known as the Fermi paradox after physicist Enrico Fermi, who first posed the question

2003-05-03T20:01:00.000Z

www.hamsterforpresident.com need i say more?

2003-05-02T23:03:00.000Z

overheard by the defective yeti: Guy 1: I hate that guy Alec. Guy 2: He's a dick. Guy 1: No kidding. [Pause] I did his girlfriend. Right after they broke up. Whatshername. Guy 2: Which one? The blond one? Guy 1: No, the other one. Whatshername. The one with the big tattoo. What was her name? Guy 2: The tattoo on her belly? Oh yeah, I did her too. What was her name? Guy 1: I can't remember. But

2003-05-02T22:40:00.000Z

2003-05-02T18:02:00.000Z

Do you think you've ever been a piece of furniture in a past life? Like a bookcase? I'm not sure I believe in past-lives for furnishings. And I'm not entirely sure that if I had been a piece of furniture in a past life, I would have been a bookshelf. I mean, I have carried books, and I've quite enjoyed it, I even stood around once holding a book and a photo frame for quite a long time, so I've

2003-05-01T16:01:00.000Z

"it’s an interesting reminder that decades never arrive or depart intact, that every era drags along the remnants of its predecessors" says the Bleatmeister.

2003-05-01T00:04:00.000Z

The arbitrariness of decades There should be a better word for what i mean than arbitrariness, but i'll be buggered if i can think of one. Decades piss me off. So do weekdays, but i understand that other people have jobs and that for them weekdays serve a useful function. Mon-Fri bad. Sat&Sun good. There's no excuse for using decades as a handy tool for socio-historical analysis though. It's

2003-04-30T18:55:00.000Z

strangely brown Imagine that you're a psychiatrist. A new patient comes to see you and says that he regularly talks to an invisible being who never responds, that he reads excerpts from one ancient book and that he believes wholeheartedly that its contents must be accepted implicitly, if not taken literally. The patient goes on to say that that the world is only 6,000 years old and that

2003-04-29T17:50:00.000Z

There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who think in binary and those who don't. The Web site you seek Cannot be located, but Countless more exist. Chaos reigns within. Reflect, repent, and reboot. Order shall return. Program aborting Close all that you have worked on. You ask far too much. Windows NT crashed. I am the Blue Screen of Death. No one hears your screams. Yesterday it

2003-04-26T01:53:00.000Z

The future's being made at the O'Reilly Emerging Tech Conference in SF The major data-storage system on your computer is the bacteria that colonizes it -- 1MB/bacterium. The major US source of electronic goods are the corn-fields of Iowa. If something exists, we can make more stuff like that. Processes on this scale are cheap, low-powered, clean and powerful. We won't use biology, but the

2003-04-25T23:36:00.000Z

Service announcement Today's absence has been brought to you not by illness, as you might expect, but by a sudden inspiration. We apologise for any inconvenience

2003-04-23T20:19:00.000Z

You're not an apricot, you're an unexploded bomb. Now go away. Some great Neil Gaiman stuff here, including an essay on how stories have genders and how he wrote American Gods - ...link... / where he gets his ideas ...link... / and some more American Godliness ...link... and in other writerly news, the ever-mighty [some might say ever-drunk] Beth Head has been published in an SF e-zine - go see

2003-04-23T01:46:00.000Z

20th Century Fox held a huge party for the finale of Buffy, the Vampire Slayer in which almost everybody connected to the show came to celebrate, and talk about the end. I will be presenting a series of interviews from that party between now and the last episode of Buffy in May, and why not start with the man behind it all, Joss Whedon. Whedon has decided to end the show, and in the last episodes

2003-04-22T20:41:00.000Z

D from Acerbia has this to say: I had a thought during lunch... you know the saying "Curiosity killed the cat", why doesn't it specify which cat? Was it the cat who was curious that was killed or was it a general insouciant query that caused Mr Tiddles to keel over with his paws in the air? Is it like chaos theory where someone asking questions in China causes a feline holocaust in Switzerland?

2003-04-22T19:55:00.000Z

Well, u-- um, can we come up and have a look? What Monty Python Character are you? brought to you by Quizilla

2003-04-22T19:16:00.000Z

Christopher Allbritton, former AP and New York Daily News reporter, last summer he went stumbling around Iraqi Kurdistan, the northern part of Iraq outside Saddam's direct control, looking for stories. He's the first of a new breed of journalist. Reader-funded, unfettered by editorial constraints, hopefully he's blazed a trail for others to follow. His last post from Iraq can be found ...here...

2003-04-22T03:07:00.000Z

terminal verbosity: "The point at which you realise that you're saying some important stuff, but also that with the next sip of your cocktail or beer, you will dissolve into incoherence." -Perfect- You're the perfect girlfriend. Whichmeans you're rare or that you cheated :P You'rethe kind of chick that can hang out with yourboyfriend's friends and be silly. You don'tcare about presents or about

2003-04-22T02:15:00.000Z

Me: "Have you always doubted yourself as much as you do now?" (Pause.) Him.: "I don't know."

2003-04-22T00:36:00.000Z

A mediocre post of no specific value Heres an interview with cheeky pomo chappy Dave Eggars, which includes a spirited rant on selling out, which is absolutely fucking amazing, and if you only click on one link today, it should be this one, because here is a man who has his priorities straight. Huzzah! ...link... For those of you who are too frightfully busy to read all of this ,as it is on the

2003-04-21T22:47:00.000Z

Man Bites Dog ...link...

2003-04-21T21:07:00.000Z

Gonzo madman Warren Ellis has this to say: I still get asked with appalling regularity "where my ideas come from." Here's the deal. I flood my poor ageing head with information. Any information. Lots of it. And I let it all slosh around in the back of my brain, in the part normal people use for remembering bills, thinking about sex and making appointments to wash the dishes. Eventually, you

2003-04-20T21:33:00.000Z

Frighteningly, that Honda ad wasn't computer generated, or done with trick photography. It was shot in one continuous take. The 606th take, mind, but still, one take. Beats middle-aged hero-man driving along a deserted desert road to the sounds of M People or Moby. ...link...

2003-04-20T20:43:00.000Z

'This is not a haiku. It is just a poorly constructed sentence'

2003-04-18T13:55:00.000Z

the postmodern circus train The old storybook trains said I think I can I think I can I think I can; the postmodern train says I regard victory as a socially constructed fiction designed to enshrine dominant power paradigms as the only possible reality - I regard victory as a socially constructed fiction designed to enshrine dominant power paradigms as the only possible reality ...link...

2003-04-17T09:55:00.000Z

Life Sentence The poets don't give a shit what you do for a living, they just want to know who raised you, where you live and if you sleep with girls or boys.

2003-04-17T09:07:00.000Z

From the desk of the Sandman: Scientists, we are told, now believe the solar tadpoles are superheated magnetic voids in the plasma. I, on the other hand, believe that they are the infallible early warning system of an upcoming plague of Solar Frogs. This is why scientists are scientists, and why my daughters look suspiciously at me whenever I try to explain the universe to them.

2003-04-17T09:04:00.000Z

Making Light "The advent of the internet has made so many things possible. Self-published recreational journalism has always been around; but back when you had to at least learn to run a mimeograph, and you had to pay postage to distribute your deathless prose, people who didn’t actually have much to say for themselves found other hobbies." ...link... The Bleatmeister gives us an American view

2003-04-16T19:54:00.000Z

He was simpering to the point of chewing the pavement when he called me this morning and he's ginger The airliner's first class passenger cabin was being served by an obviously gay flight attendant who seemed to put everyone into a good mood as he served them food and drinks. As the plane prepared to descend, he came swishing down the aisle and announced to the passengers, "Captain Marvey has

2003-04-15T21:30:00.000Z

I was shrivelled in the haze of a giddy space monkey, but heaven knows I'm crunchy now... On March 2, 2003 at 4:12 pm, I disappeared. My name is isabella v., but it's not. I'm twentysomething and I am an international fugitive. ...link...

2003-04-15T16:57:00.000Z

America: a country where ridiculous proportions of the population believe they were created by god, abducted by aliens, and attacked by Iraq. ... Ken Macleod has a blog. Don't like his books. Don't like his blog. But still... ...link... 'There are two chief types of buildings - ducks & decorated sheds' ...link...

2003-04-15T02:16:00.000Z

I keep my halo on the inside, to strip-light my brain. I have the perfect description for this just waiting to be written, but i don't want to spoil the surprise... ...link... pop-culture text-gen ...link...

2003-04-14T00:37:00.000Z

Hairy Toes & Shaved Nipples ...link... ... what, you want an explanation? Oh, and if by any chance the adorably elusive Gwillim reads this before i speak to her next, a phone call would be grand. I'm assuming you're either [a] sans phone-charger, and so oblivious to my messages, [b] suffering from alcohol & addlington-induced amnesia and can't remember my phone numbers, or [c] trapped under

2003-04-13T00:42:00.000Z

Edgar Governo - Historian of Things That Never Were Someone, somewhere, has produced a list of non-existent works referenced in other fictional texts. The Book of Bokonon, for one example, and the many & wondrous works of Kilgore Trout. I've always wanted to use some of these non-existent works as the basis for stories & such. ...Here..., though, is a site that has compiled chronologies,

2003-04-12T03:13:00.000Z

I NOW INFORM YOU THAT YOU ARE TOO FAR FROM REALITY ... the last words to be uttered by Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, Iraqi Minister of Information (currently on administrative leave.) The man has consistently provided light relief in a war curiously resistant to good jokes. If he fails to reappear, he will be sorely missed. If he were to reappear, some say he'd be a shoe-in as the next presenter of

2003-04-12T00:53:00.000Z

MOLLIFYING TURKEY

2003-04-11T15:54:00.000Z

Do you like our owl? ... obstreperous thought ... 'rah-rah cybernetics' ... crowd-hastening the end of humanity. But now, build me a new body that works all the time. That would be grand. In other news... The News They Kept to Themselves ...link... Things Andrew Had No Intention of Telling Hannah ...link... Knife Thrower Slices Assistant on Live TV ...link... "We get the culture we deserve

2003-04-10T16:19:00.000Z

Fuck, tit, wank, shit & bollocks or, in other words, the illness returns with a vengeance. Diarrhea 3 - this time, it's toxic! - So, in betwixt running to the toilet and rereading Private Eye, i shall put some new stuff up, .so that the four of you that read this don't give up and go and read the shamelessly self-promoting orange blogger. oh, and i have toothache, so ready yourself for an

2003-04-09T18:52:00.000Z

Yet again, much illness, now receding. and so - the surrealist

2003-04-09T17:34:00.000Z

2003-03-28T16:15:00.000Z

The more you watch the more you realize how little you’re seeing "I am heartened by the maps that show where our troops are located - if the pictures are indeed drawn to scale, we have three soldiers on the ground, and each is about 135 miles tall; they have at their disposal four tanks, each of which is the size of Rhode Island." ...link... Woof Woof. In Spanish, Wuah! Wuah! The single most

2003-03-28T02:39:00.000Z

He slides into the library like a man studying the art of being studiously aloof. He pushes through the barrier with a movement of his hip, and holds it with open fingers for the girl walking behind. He doesn’t break his stride. His eyes flick over the queue as he passes, not looking just seeing the people standing there. He stands aside to let someone pass and then moves through the door and up

2003-03-26T13:12:00.000Z

Ladies & Gentlemen We have a new candidate for 'More in need of a blow-job than any white man in history' - ...link... - check the hatemail section to delve into the depths of this man's bitterness. Tis wondrous to behold. Fridge Poetry For the blind, apparently. Stupidly large & colourful letters, [trying hard not to make an anti-American jibe here], but still a lovely thing. ...link...

2003-03-25T19:01:00.000Z

Slay Miserables The high point in "Once More, With Feeling"—last year's Buffy the Vampire Slayer mini-musical episode—was "Under Your Spell," Tara's beautiful love song to her partner Willow, devotional and thanksgiving and erotic, a Wiccan hymn from one witch to the power of another. ...more... London Cinemas Because I'm applying to 10 or so of these for a job. Terminally unemployed, my arse.

2003-03-25T01:49:00.000Z

I think this is a joke. I'm not convinced it isn't. ...link... I found it ...here... at Neil Gaiman's journal. The man is too talented for his own fine leather jacket, which, by, the way, I am selling.

2003-03-25T00:47:00.000Z

Bruce Sterlings says: "This must be the coolest piece of hippie-hokum handwaving Situationist antiwar emergent psychogeographic smart-mob cybergoofball blather that I've ever seen." ...link...

2003-03-24T20:37:00.000Z

Words as memebullets Retronym: "A word or phrase created because an existing term that was once used alone needs to be distinguished from a term referring to a new development, as acoustic guitar in contrast to electric guitar or analog watch in contrast to digital watch" ...link... found via Interconnected, thru blackbeltjones Five hours from now space travel will become a household reality.

2003-03-24T19:08:00.000Z

Well, now this is tremendous, and I wish I'd thought of it.

2003-03-24T00:06:00.000Z

Near Real Time Satellite Images of Iraq ...link... Map of Iraq & Operations ...link... BBC Online's minute-by-minute coverage ...link... The Agonist - with great media links ...link...

2003-03-21T04:25:00.000Z

Librarians, the slow encroachment of political and personal freedoms, and a kooky sense of humour. Ah, what a porno that would make. ...link...

2003-03-20T22:42:00.000Z

A group blog of BBC reporters, from Iraq, Kuwait, Washington, Qatar, and elsewhere. ...link...

2003-03-20T22:00:00.000Z

kottke on the war

2003-03-20T16:33:00.000Z

The carrots are against us The Blusterizer

2003-03-19T21:55:00.000Z

you will not believe this... or perhaps you will.

2003-03-19T18:01:00.000Z

after two hours sleep and four hours walking, this will keep me amused til bedtime.

2003-03-19T03:40:00.000Z

Welcome to... It's Wednesday morning, i've got to be up and out in 6 hours, i've been up since 9am, and i'm not even remotely tired. My ecsema is in that place where if i'm not dog tired when i crawl into bed i'll pay for it with a night of grim almost-sleep. So. A few more bundles of feasty goodness from Kazaa, and more of this jumbled malarkey. Right-ho. Let's start with this eve, and work

2003-03-18T00:45:00.000Z

Getting it on for the good of the planet The Greenpeace Guide to Environmentally-Friendly Sex

2003-03-17T21:39:00.000Z

The British commander of troops in the Gulf admitted yesterday that he had been forced to borrow a pair of American desert boots because of a foot injury. Air Marshal Brian Burridge, asked how he had come by the injury, replied: "Kicking a journalist."

2003-03-17T02:06:00.000Z

illness strikes again, so less words. But I leave you with wordsoup heroin - the mighty ramblings of the mad.

2003-03-14T04:32:00.000Z

It's 3.27am. I'm giving up smoking. I'm waiting for Kazaa to finish waffling some Buffy & Simpsons for the Gwillim. It's got an hour to go, depending on this that and the other. So, to do something with my hands i shall blog like the devil. Bow down before my mastery of the hyperlink. For I am Turbot, Lord of the Sea. First of all, found in the inestimable diepunyhumans is this wonderful chat

2003-03-13T19:17:00.000Z

Ha-Ha! 163310... i munch on your daily journals, and chew your arabesque folios.

2003-03-13T02:40:00.000Z

My mothercanucker of a brother got a Bookworm highscore of 119030, and my high score is currently 92900. Someone, please dethrone him. You can find the illustrious bookworm here ...

2003-03-12T20:02:00.000Z

Tom's email made me all misty-eyed with nostalgia. IK+ - what a game. So: Games I recommend Bookworm & Bejewelled. My Bookwoem highscore is 62880 - beat that, Scrabble fans. A spectre is haunting gaming

2003-03-11T01:18:00.000Z

World Time [1] / World Time [2] / World Time [3]

2003-03-11T00:19:00.000Z

I am less ill now, and so have more words. For the Gwillim: Jason Mraz : he's just a curbside prophet. here are his albums.

2003-03-09T13:19:00.000Z

• Wal-Mart's sales on one day last fall--$1.42 billion--were larger than the GDPs of 36 countries.

2003-03-07T18:44:00.000Z

I don't really know how to describe this, World of Ends, except to say i found it really interesting. i am ill, and have few words. so Fetish Map

2003-03-07T01:13:00.000Z

Theatrical links for the MiIlwig: one & two

2003-03-06T15:58:00.000Z

But your bite is like a baby on the teat I really can't recommend this enough. Go there, spend an hour perusing. It'll make you feel so much finer. I've just had 3 fillings & a root canal, and am in an ibuprofen induced haze, & it made me smile.

2003-03-05T22:52:00.000Z

GZ - the anti-verbose The sequence of human evolution Infinity is Frightening Rainman - there are three left in the box. Reaction test

2003-03-05T22:48:00.000Z

Today's front pages

2003-03-05T16:30:00.000Z

Bongiorno Somewhere for Geoffrey to filch more ideas from...

2003-02-28T23:11:00.000Z

beautiful. [geometric] beautiful [check the archives] just beautiful

2003-02-28T19:40:00.000Z

there are no words to describe this. except, perhaps, it could be an identikit for transgendered types go see!

2003-02-28T13:15:00.000Z

He's not the Messiah, he's a very snarky music exec. Ah, memories. Pop Idol. Simon Cowell. Rik 'I swallowed a camel' Waller. The Frog Umbrella. 'Korben' [cough, spit]. But mostly Simon Cowell. He of the high waistline & arched eyebrow. And I'm not alone in my muted worship of this testosterone god. Oh no: 'Simply Simon' / tattered dreams / Beat up Simon Cowell {not beat off SC, unfortunately,