Monday, November 22, 2004

From Wheat Hole to front page Nice profile in the Anchorage Daily News about Jim and Esther at Whole Wheat Radio. It's nice to know even more about those two, and I have even more respect for what Jimbob's accomplished. Me, I just can't imagine spending the winter in Alaska. 9:24:47 PM    Questions? Comments? Flames? []

Next BayDUX event Coming up in a mere two weeks: "The Future of Digital Product Design," SF, Dec. 8. From Pabini Gabriel-Petit (pabini@ixdg.org), IxDG Face-to-Face Co-Coordinator: IxDG, the AIGA Center for Brand Experience, AIGA-ED, and BayDUX are co-sponsoring an event on December 8: The Future of Digital Product Design Dirk Knemeyer will speak about the present and future of... [Total Experience] 6:08:10 PM    Questions? Comments? Flames? []

I'm not worried. . . Really. I'm not worried that computers will one day write better than best-selling novelists: Unlocking the chip's inner Hemingway. Can computers get along fine without writers? Word is they just might. [Missing Link] [CNET News.com] Steven Pinker is quoted: While it is conceivable that computers will eventually write novels, Dr. Pinker says, "I doubt they'd be very good novels by human standards." As it happens, I've read a few novels from the NYT best-seller list over the last few years, and I've been universally disappointed. In fact, they haven't been very good novels by my standards. Can a computer do better? I don't know, but it really doesn't bother me to imagine that they might. And as for those 100 or 1,000 or 10,000 monkeys typing away, I seem to recall a recent study that gave computers to monkeys. The primates that didn't just smash the things to bits eventually focused on tapping the "s" key, repeatedly. 1:22:15 PM    Questions? Comments? Flames? []

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