Editorial Notes (plus a few links)
Yesterday I was informed that I'm not the only one who gets to write up comments for our happybeagle.com picture pages. So Shelby's comments have been added to the San Francisco trip page presented yesterday, color-keyed for your convenience.
But lest this entry be completely filled with rehashing of already-presented information, a handful of recently-discovered links:
- Flip Flop Flyin': A seemingly-endless gallery of handcrafted pixel amusements. My favorites so far are Witham and Woodhall's Pebble Museum and its sequel (?), W&W's "Trophiest Trophy". FFF also has another expat-in-Germany blog connected to it.
- bumwine.com: Wine reviews for a, um, different kind of consumer.
- 20Q.net: This was the subject of an entry on BoingBoing a few weeks ago, and I got to play with one last night. A programmer has been training a neural net to play 20 Questions for 17 years (originally by having his friends pass around the game on an MS-DOS floppy). You can visit the 20Q.net website to play against the neural net over the Web -- or now, you can buy and play the handheld version, which knows 2,000 of the Web version's 10,000 most popular objects. Supposedly, it has a 73% success rate; all of us who played it last night found it eerily prescient.
- Tiny Music Makers: A four-part series with the stories behind the 'Intel Inside' theme music, the "Microsoft Sound", the movie theater THX sound, and the Macintosh startup sound.
Posted by Kevin at May 30, 2005 02:45 PM
