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IKEA Fails the Turing Test, But Aces the Davezilla Test

IKEA has a cute little artifical intelligence program, Anna, who will gladly try to help meet your strangely-named disposable Swedish…

21 years ago

Chris Pirillo Wants to Save You Five Bucks!

Chris Pirillo is offering a $5 coupon for interested purchasers of the FeedDemon RSS/Atom reader for Windows. Download this FeedDemon…

21 years ago

It Just Dawned on Me That Bill Gates is Partially Responsible for My First Kiss (and Now I Need a Drink)

Take a look at this screen shot from an old IBM PC game whose filename was "DONKEY.BAS" (the ".BAS" filename…

21 years ago

Because We Can’t Get Enough of "Come Hither Bill"

"To quote Clippy: 'It looks like you're about to take your clothes off. Would you like some help?'"

21 years ago

Double Your Pleasure, Double Your Fun

Somewhere, someone who is not Melinda Gates finds this photo arousing. "Mommeeeee! Make the bad nerd stop!"

21 years ago

And For One Brief Shining Moment, I was the Number One Joey

Because Eldon Brown knows that I am the World's Most Humble Egomaniac™, he knows that the following would be of…

21 years ago

My Semi-Regular Plug for "The Farm"

The Farm: The Tucows Developers' Hangout is the blog that I'm paid to write (or, more accurately, it's part of…

21 years ago

Another Reason to Go to Catholic School (aside from the schoolgirls and high standards)

Back in the '80s, when I was a high school student at De La Salle College "Oaklands", I got a…

21 years ago

This is What a Real Computer Scientist Looks Like

For no real reason (I was Googling for "scientist" images), here's a photo of Dr. Robin Dawes, one of my…

21 years ago

Over-Caffeinated and Under-Slept

[This has been cross-posted to The Farm] There's just too much interesting stuff to do, and as a result I've…

21 years ago