Archive for July, 2007
Monday, July 30th, 2007
Finding the Easter Eggs in extremely limited AIs never gets old!
Minor Tweaks: the IKEA DIALOGUES. Wherein some blogger repeatedly holds conversations with Ikea’s web chat-bot, Anna. Hint: start at the bottom of the page, with “A conversation with IKEA’s online assistant, Anna” and scroll up through the dialogues.
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Friday, July 27th, 2007
The two greatest car chases
Nobody filmed ’em better than Frankenheimer. Regarding car chases, the French Connection, as dramatic as it looked, is not an especially sophisticated chase, technically speaking (though the dramatic element of chasing the “L” with a car is affective and effective). The chase relies on undercranking to speed up the action, and quick cuts to avoid […]
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Friday, July 27th, 2007
Manamana
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Thursday, July 5th, 2007
At the Kwik-E-Mart
A short review.I thought the funny thing about the cartoon stand-ups is that while they looked pretty naff in person, they look really good in photos! Something about the flattening effect of photography. As for the rest, it was…a good try. The fact that the signature Krusty-Os and Buzz Cola were an instant sell-out (along […]
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Monday, July 2nd, 2007
Fuel to the fire
I know, you’re sick of reading about a telephone that isn’t even available in Canada. Or you have no idea what I’m talking about. After enjoying a long and pointless conversation with a good friend who is intimately involved with the mobile telephony business (he’s an iPhone skeptic; at one point he sent me a […]
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Monday, July 2nd, 2007
Bad Medicine
For some reason, I’m thinking about health care a lot these days (No, I’m fine, thank you for asking: except for needing to lose a few pounds to get to race weight, I’ve never been better). I was over hanging around Darren Barefoot’s comment on the new film Sicko. This is roughly what I said […]