Stupidfilter to save the intarwebs?

Posted on November 13, 2007 · 1 min reading time

Stupidfilter‘s a project to create a bayesian filter to solve the spam and idiocy that’s becoming a serious problem with the internet these days. I’d love to see the general intelligence and maturity of the internet grow through projects like this, filtering people and things that are a waste of time.

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I’m helping!

Posted on October 18, 2007 · 1 min reading time

Refactormycode is yet another Web2.0 site, this time for people to post code snippets and ask for help with making them better. I’ve been trawling through the rather infrequent posts of late and found something to help with!

Warm fuzzy feeling: [Check]

Weirded out that I helped with JavaScript: [CheckCheckCheckCheck]

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The blackberry is only half full.

Posted on October 15, 2007 · 1 min reading time

Dear workmates,

When I provide you with numerous solutions, do not say “that’s not what I want to do” because there’s only so many ways I can stop your Blackberry’s email inbox filling up.

Ta,

yale.

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I like smart videos.

Posted on October 14, 2007 · 1 min reading time

Koichiro Tsujikawa’s dreamy music video to Cornelius’s “Fit Song” spends its entire time in the confines of a house, where CGI brings everyday items to a strange sort of life.

I found this on an animation site called Frames Per Second - check out the vid, then the site - very cool 🙂

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Not your life story

Posted on October 5, 2007 · 1 min reading time

Dear conference presenters,

When we ask for a short (six-line maximum) biography/intro for our published forum program, please send us LESS than six lines on an average page. Sending us a page and a half does not make us put it all in - and we’ll send it right back.

Thanks,

James.

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Wal mart fun

Posted on October 5, 2007 · 2 mins reading time

I pulled this from rec.humor.funny.

After Mr. and Mrs. Fenton retired, Mrs. Fenton insisted her husband accompany her on her trips to Wal-Mart.

Unfortunately, Mr. Fenton was like most men-he found shopping boring and preferred to get in and get out. Equally unfortunately, Mrs. Fenton was like most women-she loved to browse.

One day Mrs. Fenton received the following letter from her local Wal-Mart.

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aaahh.

Posted on October 3, 2007 · 1 min reading time

We put thirty spokes together and call it a wheel;

But it is on the space where there is nothing that the usefulness of the wheel depends.

We turn clay to make a vessel;

But it is on the space where there is nothing that the usefulness of the vessel depends.

We pierce doors and windows to make a house;

And it is on these spaces where there is nothing that the usefulness of the house depends.

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