Archive for April, 2008


this book is useless

Monday, April 14th, 2008

From He Wrote 200,000 Books (but Computers Did Some of the Work) (NYT)

While nothing announces that Mr. Parker’s books are computer generated, one reader, David Pascoe, seemed close to figuring it out himself, based on his comments to Amazon in 2004. Reviewing a guide to rosacea, a skin disorder, Mr. Pascoe, who is from Perth, [...]

Robot Screening

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

These are the videos I show for my big robot screening every year in 101. I’ve posted each of these videos here before, but it will be handy in the future to have the list consolidated and organized. I’ll periodically add to the list as I remember things and find new things.