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| Friday |
the Sixth of June, 2003 |
Out in the sunshine; a fly hanging upside-down on a flower, buzzing its
wings against the petals to make a beautifully harsh, unearthly sound that
I've never heard before, and will never hear again. In this century of
MP3 compression and plastic-fascia microphones, why aren't handy, high-quality digital sound recorders as big a thing as digital cameras? Is
personal sound publishing ever going to get any further than shouting blog entries into a mobile phone?
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| Thursday |
the Fifth |
Finally, a dogged twenty questions
robot that accepts answers of "Unknown",
"Irrelevant", "Probably" and "Doubtful".
Surprisingly, it's not running the usual expanding binary-tree, but
picking and choosing from a fixed list of weighted questions, working out its own way of distinguishing two similar things. Much more interesting.
And it bickers gloriously over any points of contradiction, at the end. I say that I can't
lift a goat, and it says I can. There's only one way to settle this. [via Dogmael@MCiOS]
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"Now, do you smoke?" "No." "How many a day?" "Forty." "Right. You don't smoke forty a day." - QuitMeter provides a
counter for your web page that tracks how much money you aren't spending on cigarettes (or are spending, if you're feeling perverse). They've also
underplayed its easy rewordability for alcohol, hard drugs, Magic the Gathering cards, pre-packed sandwiches and significant others. [via Alice]
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| I like the look of 26 Things - mass-participation photography,
getting everyone to take pictures of twenty-six specific things
during the month of July. Good that any subset is as valid as the
whole; that it'd be a good thing to do alongside friends, and
compare results. Anyone else up for it?
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I've typed up that
walkthrough
for Bad Machine; for one of its endings, at least.
Open-endedly poignant. Even if you aren't in the mood for puzzle
solving, the factory floor - a dark and bustling hive of
interconnecting robot tasks and binary communication - is worth
exploring for half an hour.
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| Tuesday |
the Third |
One day, one fine day, I shall find employment with a company
that doesn't run out of money after I've been there a year. If you're in the
Brighton area and need a web developer, or know someone who might; let me know. My
CV is back up.
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