After some surfing through the tubes, I came across an ad for a new razor from Norelco. At first the ad seemed innocuous and I was slightly intrigued because it looks weird and I sorta need a new razor (though I’ve been doing without for a while now). Then the flash animation changed and I [...]
Archive for 22 September 2007
Robots as sex objects?
Posted: 22 September 2007 in UncategorizedTags: advertising, norelco, razor, robots, sex
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Photowalking
Posted: 22 September 2007 in UncategorizedTags: art, cameras, cell phones, hobbies, photography, photowalking
Robert Scoble posted a link to Thomas Hawk’s blog post on photowalking. The premise is simple: make your camera a part of you. I find this very difficult, because I feel like cameras offend people in most situations, annoy them in others and are just generally touristy otherwise. A camera phone on the other hand [...]
Peruvian meteorite caused illnesses
Posted: 22 September 2007 in UncategorizedTags: conspiracy theories, illness, meteorites, meteors, peru, scud missiles
So the Peruvian scientists who examined the controversial meteorite have declared it is indeed a meteorite and it caused the illnesses reported by local residents [source]. The meteor hit an underground source of water that was contaminated with arsenic. On impact, it ejected a blast of steam that affected locals who inhaled it. Whether this [...]
New Open-Access Computational Linguistics Journal
Posted: 22 September 2007 in UncategorizedTags: acl, computational linguistics, journals, language technologies, linguistics, machine translation, natural language processing, open access, professors, statistics
Linguistic Issues in Language Technology (LiLT) is a new open-access journal in computational linguistics. The journal will focus on techniques that bring linguistics back into language technologies (LT). LT currently focus a lot on statistical techniques and sometimes can ignore linguistic insight altogether, but the field is beginning to swing around from the purely statistical [...]
