Here’s a new online toy: the Amazon Mechanical Turk. You go make an account there, and provide HITs—”human intelligence tasks,” jobs that can only be done by human brains and that you don’t feel like doing yourself. You set a price on the HIT and wait for someone to do it for you. Amazon takes [...]
Archive for January, 2006
A snowy walk
It snowed yesterday. We got about 20 cm on the ground, and lots stuck to trees and bamboo and such in photogenic ways. So we went out and took some pictures. Go see a few of them on the Flickr site. You can click this chilled fruit picture to see a bigger version of it, [...]
Friday Music.
It’s cold in Japan. So cold, in fact, that the monkeys are clumping together to conserve warmth. (Sorry Japanese only; enjoy the photo though.) In other news, I’m a dangerous person to let near Tower Records when I’ve got some beer in me. Just came home after my Friday class (and the aforementioned beer, and [...]
Trivia about me
Fun link from the Ars Technica Lounge! The Mechanical Contrivium: Trivia about Durf Ten Top Trivia Tips about Durf! You can tell if Durf has been hard-boiled by spinning him. If he stands up, he is hard-boiled. A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find Durf. Fish travel in schools, [...]
Blook? Blah.
I’ve never liked the word “blog.” A log of stuff on the web is a web log, to my mind, not a we blog. So I use “log” in the URL for this joint. The word just kind of grates on my eyes, and ears. Plenty of people have gone on the record as hating [...]
