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Dec. 3rd, 2006 05:39 pmThere's a bunch of stuff I've been meaning to link to lately, but I was waiting till I got caught up reading friends' entries. It looks like my habits have settled down to spending Saturday catching up, posting on Sunday, and then responding to posts during the week, which is all I really have time to do. Most of these are re-posted from other people's journals, but I like posting them here because it collects together all the stuff I find interesting in one place, and it's unlikely that anyone has happened to already have seen all of them:
The Patrick Stewart Alphabet song... a really fun video of Captian Picard singing and performing broadway style onboard the enterprise:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjNKyoRudOQ&eurl=
a transformer halloween costume that transforms just like in the cartoon!:
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1719034/context/search:transformer
Thursday was the 70th anniversary of Alan Turing's publication of On Computable Numbers, which laid the theoretical foundation for what we now call "computers". MIT celebrated by hosting a debate between Ray Kurzweil and Yale professor David Gelernter on the issue of whether intelligent machines which pass the Turing test should only be regarded as "zombies" or if they should be regarded as conscious like any other living, thinking, sentient being:
http://web.mit.edu/webcast/csail/2006/mit-csail-kurzweil-32123-30nov2006-220k.ram
(As expected, Gelernter comes across looking rather foolish, while Kurzweil is right on target.)
Funny video parody about sexual consent forms:
http://www.glumbert.com/media/consent
a really impressive stop-motion animation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJzU3NjDikY&eurl=
Sitting up straight is bad for your back? When I first read the title, I thought "yippie! my sitting habits aren't as bad for me as I thought!" Unfortunately, it looks like the 135-degree angle they suggest for slouching is the opposite direction from the way in which I usually slouch:
Study Indicates Sitting up Straight is Bad for Your Back
Researchers unveil self-aware robot:
http://news.com.com/Researchers+unveil+a+self-aware+robot/2100-11394_3-6136608.html
Juggling in a cone... stunningly beautiful:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqDAf_lg9Xs
There's also a bunch of personal stuff that has happened lately, which I plan to make a friends-only post on soon... hopefully tonight.
The Patrick Stewart Alphabet song... a really fun video of Captian Picard singing and performing broadway style onboard the enterprise:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjNKyoRudOQ&eurl=
a transformer halloween costume that transforms just like in the cartoon!:
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1719034/context/search:transformer
Thursday was the 70th anniversary of Alan Turing's publication of On Computable Numbers, which laid the theoretical foundation for what we now call "computers". MIT celebrated by hosting a debate between Ray Kurzweil and Yale professor David Gelernter on the issue of whether intelligent machines which pass the Turing test should only be regarded as "zombies" or if they should be regarded as conscious like any other living, thinking, sentient being:
http://web.mit.edu/webcast/csail/2006/mit-csail-kurzweil-32123-30nov2006-220k.ram
(As expected, Gelernter comes across looking rather foolish, while Kurzweil is right on target.)
Funny video parody about sexual consent forms:
http://www.glumbert.com/media/consent
a really impressive stop-motion animation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJzU3NjDikY&eurl=
Sitting up straight is bad for your back? When I first read the title, I thought "yippie! my sitting habits aren't as bad for me as I thought!" Unfortunately, it looks like the 135-degree angle they suggest for slouching is the opposite direction from the way in which I usually slouch:
Study Indicates Sitting up Straight is Bad for Your Back
Researchers unveil self-aware robot:
http://news.com.com/Researchers+unveil+a+self-aware+robot/2100-11394_3-6136608.html
Juggling in a cone... stunningly beautiful:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqDAf_lg9Xs
There's also a bunch of personal stuff that has happened lately, which I plan to make a friends-only post on soon... hopefully tonight.
