i'm pretty much leaving livejournal in favor of my wordpress on my own webspace. it is at jr.meerkat.cc.

last night, tim & eric "touched" me, which brought on either a seizure or a religious experience.


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the revamped eliza will serve as part of the architecture of rainboweb. my old eliza is available for web-based interaction. once i iron out the source and update the rules, the revised version will be available for web-based interaction. this version will be combined with a neural network of fuzzy logic with its generation dependent on the ( Read more... )

discover magazine is judging the entries of a contest called "evolution in two minutes (or less)" in which those who entered were to created short videos explaining the significance of the idea of evolution. obviously this is a delicate situation. this video should be the winner, as far as i know:

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truly they were an aqua teen hunger force!

typical output from a new artificial-intelligence entity called poet-a at the moment. programmed in common lisp, of course, this time using original dictionaries based on the most commonly-used (1000 or so per part-of-speech) words in english ( Read more... )

you are guided by silent love and friendship around you

"try to imagine a culture where arguments are not viewed in terms of war, where no one wins or loses...imagine a culture where an argument is viewed as a dance, the participants are seen as performers, and the goal is to perform in a balanced and aesthetically pleasing way."

a quote from metaphors we live by by lakoff & johnson.

i realize i may be a bit late on this one but there was an of montreal sometime in 2008 called skeletal lamping which is great and a full-length LP. buy it on amazon here while you're getting your kindle 2 too.


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i have been reading these all day because they are lovely.