The Turk and 10,000 Sheep

“Agenda Films” and “BTTF.com” have a documentary coming to a projector in a hotel meeting room near you soon! “Looking Back to the Future”

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What do you call a guy with no arms in a car? Colin.

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It was announced the Nintendo Wii will be $250 or less — and I predict will dominate the home video-game market this holiday season. Mark my words, kids. Wireless remote, an on-demand historic Nintendo archive going back to the NES???! It’s gonna be big.

Eff the PS3.

A microphone is rumored to be built into the wireless controller — Karaoke anyone? Potential there for a VOIP phone too.

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10,000 Sheep facing left created by 10,000 workers each paid $0.02 via Amazon’s Mechanical Turk.

The Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) is a web service from Amazon.com that enables computer programs to co-ordinate the use of human intelligence to perform tasks which computers are unable to do.

For example: drawing a sheep, ranking your favorite flavors of Vodka, provide an opinion of some clothing

Why would someone want 10,000 pictures of a sheep? Why not?

The name Mechanical Turk comes from a certain chess-playing automaton of the 18th century. Called “The Turk,” it toured Europe beating the likes of Napoleon Bonaparte and Benjamin Franklin, but turned out not to really be an automaton at all: a chess master hid in a special compartment controlling its operations. Likewise, the Mechanical Turk web service allows the machines of today to perform tasks they aren’t yet suited for without having human help.

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FLICKR FRIDAY

Five Frickin’ Fantastic Flickr Links Every Friday

Ryan S. just returned with his wife Stacey from Hawaii — take this 3-day weekend to view his immense catalog of photos from their wedding/honeymoon. Nice tan, kids!

This guy loves deodorant.

Not the prettiest install, but it gets the job done — a Mac Mini carputer.

6,890 photos of cupcakes

So you think it’s crowded on DC or NYC’s metro? Try this Asian nation.

May 26, 2006 • Posted in: Ramblings

One Response to “The Turk and 10,000 Sheep”

  1. Ryan - May 30th, 2006

    Thanks for the shout out. Professional pics and video are coming soon. I’ll probably end up tagging a bunch of the pics as “good” so that people can just look at the good ones. Surprisingly no shit-yourself good pictures out of the bunch. Stacey has a ton up as well on staceytown.