Oceanographer’s Choice
Posted on January 8, 2007 - Filed Under Music, Robot Brains | Leave a Comment
Rhymin’ & Stealin’ memes. This time from Rarely Likeable. 1. Put your music player on shuffle. 2. Press forward for each question. 3. Use the song title as the answer to the question. What does next year have in store for me? De La Soul – Plug Tunin’ “a return to the classics?” What does [...]
Read More..>>Free Electronic Waste Removal
Posted on September 15, 2006 - Filed Under Robot Brains | Leave a Comment
This weekend at PacBell SBC AT&T Park you can have your electronic waste taken off your hands for Free Ninety Nine! For many of the items being accepted there is often a “disposal” fee, so this is a great way to get rid of your Commodore 64 without releasing lead, mercury and other toxic goodies [...]
Read More..>>Yahoo! No Google?
Posted on September 5, 2006 - Filed Under Language, Robot Brains, Turf Wars | Leave a Comment
I rarely spell-check, but found myself using the embedded spell-checker in Yahoo’s web email. Curiously (or not), Yahoo! did not recognize “Google”, instead thinking I meant “Go ogle”. Luckily, Yahoo was able to recognize itself as a word (even though Merriam-Webster does not, at least as a web company — “a boorish, crass, or stupid [...]
Read More..>>Why Every Blogger Should Use Firefox
Posted on September 1, 2006 - Filed Under Robot Brains | 1 Comment
I just came across this extension for Firefox: SessionSaver .2 that loads Firefox to the same state from the last time it was running – including text you had typed into forms (like, say, a blog entry post that you hadn’t saved, but accicently closed your browswer). Just tested it out and it works as [...]
Read More..>>Timothy Hornyak – Loving the Machine: The Art and Science of Japanese Robots
Posted on August 24, 2006 - Filed Under Books, Mark Your Calendars, Robot Brains | Leave a Comment
I saw this in the Bookshop West Portal events announcement. Sounds right up my alley. Robots!! TIMOTHY HORNYAK Loving the Machine: The Art and Science of Japanese Robots Thursday, September 21 at 7 PM From the amazing automatons of feudal Japan to giant animated robots and the cutting-edge androids of today, Loving the Machine explores [...]
Read More..>>In Defense of Geeks
Posted on August 9, 2006 - Filed Under Money, Politics, Robot Brains | Leave a Comment
Joel Spolsky to Travelers Insurance – don’t fuck with the geeks. I’m sorry, Travelers, maybe the current Bush presidency has given you the idea that it’s ok to make fun of the scientists, inventors, researchers and programmers who are creating the future, finding cures for your diseases, building the spreadsheets you use to figure out [...]
Read More..>>“Give It To Me Baby”
Posted on August 7, 2006 - Filed Under Language, Robot Brains, Statistics | Leave a Comment
… are the five words describing what is on my shortlist for b-day wishes, for those scoring at home: We processed 1,011,582,453,213 words of running text and are publishing the counts for all 1,146,580,664 five-word sequences that appear at least 40 times. There are 13,653,070 unique words, after discarding words that appear less than 200 [...]
Read More..>>Number Five Is Alive
Posted on July 28, 2006 - Filed Under Drinking, Music, Robot Brains | Leave a Comment
At daytrotter.com, there is an interview with Two Gallants: Which songwriters do you admire? AS: Uncle Dave Macon, Clarence Ashley, Sleepy John Estes, Kris Kristofferson, Ray Davies, Immortal Technique. Whose brain would you like to pick for half a day? AS: Karl Rove. I’d pick his brain until he could only eat through a straw [...]
Read More..>>What To Do in Austin, TX?
Posted on July 27, 2006 - Filed Under Food, Music, On The Road Again, Robot Brains | 5 Comments
We’re1 getting married soon at BMK HQ. For Phase II2 of the honeymoon, Monica and I will be taking a road trip, departing from San Francisco on September 16th and returning on the 30th. Our only firm plan so far is to arrive in Austin, Texas on Friday, September 22nd for an M. Ward concert [...]
Read More..>>Well, There Was a Popular Singer Named Frank Stallone
Posted on July 19, 2006 - Filed Under Movies, Robot Brains, Statistics | Leave a Comment
Number of Google News articles currently using the phrase “Rocky VI” : 45 Number of Google News articles currently using the phrase “Rambo IV“: 13
Read More..>>Computer Chess
Posted on July 19, 2006 - Filed Under Robot Brains | Leave a Comment
There is a VERY cool web site for the history of computer chess to go along with the terrestial exhibit at the Computer History Museum. Included online are some pretty cool papers I plan to go through when time permits, along with some geekishly cool archival photos and interactive demonstrations. Most Highly recommended. Engraving of [...]
Read More..>>Rhapsody Web2.0 Contest
Posted on July 18, 2006 - Filed Under Contests, Music, Robot Brains | Leave a Comment
On-line music service Rhapsody has announced a contest for web developers to create the best “mash up” using their API. Top prize is a trip anywhere in the world to see your favorite band. I’m sure there’s all kinds of catches, but it’s nice to see a music company embrace a developer community and open [...]
Read More..>>Robot Brains Gone Wild
Posted on June 28, 2006 - Filed Under Robot Brains, Sex | 1 Comment
“Business Intelligence” may be an oxymoron, but surely Microsoft is “eating their own dogfood” at their adCenter labs, to “guesstimate” the sexual breakdown of various web site visitors. As I’ve dabbled in the “BI” as “insiders” call “it” I thought I’d give a few URLs a whirl to get some COLD HARD FACTS. Advertised on [...]
Read More..>>What is ‘IT’?
Posted on June 9, 2006 - Filed Under Music, Robot Brains | Leave a Comment
I’m still not sure what this is, exactly, but it sounds a lot like some emperor’s clothing to me… The San Francisco Symphony and KQED threw a fete on Wednesday night at KQED headquarters to celebrate “Keeping Score,” the Symphony’s huge new multimedia project. This could be described as educational, but that’s a pretty dry [...]
Read More..>>yankee…hotel…foxtrot…
Posted on June 1, 2006 - Filed Under Liberal Media Conspiracies, Radio, Robot Brains | Leave a Comment
“Numbers” stations move to VoIP.
Read More..>>Virtual Reality-Based Community?
Posted on May 18, 2006 - Filed Under Money, Robot Brains, Tempests In Teacups, Turf Wars | Leave a Comment
Have you heard of Second Life? I think it’s like Sim City meets Dungeons and Dragons + MySpace all rolled into one. Forget the clowns…bring on the lawyers!!! …the dispute could test the relevance to virtual worlds of existing laws. “Linden Lab is still obligated to honour real-world contract law and consumer law, even if [...]
Read More..>>TbHeEtLwIeNeEnS
Posted on May 4, 2006 - Filed Under Books, Liberal Media Conspiracies, Perception, Robot Brains | Leave a Comment
Kaavya Viswanthan’s “How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild and Got a Life”. Plagerized? Perhaps. But definitely exposed in every sense of the word. And now on eBay for prices that may some day approach a Royal non-rookie rookie. What’s NOT being reported is the message within. Here at BMK’s West Coast offices, we’ve carefully [...]
Read More..>>The Fake Headlines
Posted on April 10, 2006 - Filed Under Language, Liberal Media Conspiracies, Robot Brains | Leave a Comment
Poker & Pam Anderson displace death, joining taxes. Is such the future of journalism in the post-google world? Journalists, they say, would be wise to do a little keyword research to determine the two or three most-searched words that relate to their subject — and then include them in the first few sentences. “That’s not [...]
Read More..>>Future Tunes
Posted on April 7, 2006 - Filed Under Music, Robot Brains | Leave a Comment
Does iChing work when you use Winamp? …How about on the limited selection of work computer songs? These and other questions asked at BMK. The only rules I had were to skip songs by “repeat” artists. How does the world see you? Army (Ben Folds Five) …am I misunderstood slacker or a peppy tune with [...]
Read More..>>Damn You, Microsoft
Posted on January 23, 2006 - Filed Under Robot Brains | Leave a Comment
and your MDX limericks
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