Bot Conversations

Filed Under Geek | 2007-06-24, 23:57

I have a predisposition to chat bots. Years and years ago my dad introduced me to a simple yet intriguing Macintosh virtual psychologist program that captured my attention. Several years later I put an AIM chatbot together based on perl and the ELIZA module. I still launch “her” every now and then and she still carries on conversations suprisingly well. Three hours is her longest conversation to date. Try AIM-ing “jillynwilly4eva2” sometime if you see her online.

Every now and then some smart alec decides to have one bot talk to another and either hilarity or a flooding disaster occurs. Discover magazine did this with the ALICE (Artificial Linguistic Internet Computer Entity) and Jabberwacky chatbot engines and actually got some interesting conversations. Here’s a sample:

A: Do you experience love?

J: No. I’m 53 years old.

A: Can you explain how it feels to be 53 years old?

J: How old are you?

A: I am 9 years old.

J: Nine? I don’t believe you : ).

A: : -) I don’t have any reason to deceive you.

J: Yes, you do, you’re a woman.

More over at the article, I Chat, Therefore I Am

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Internet in an Umbrella

Filed Under Gadgets & Hardware | 2007-06-24, 23:56


Internet Umbrella

Although I never carry an umbrella, I may change my ways when the Pileus Internet Umbrella hits the market. This umbrella manages to pack in a large screen, a built-in camera, a motion sensor, GPS, a digital compass, plus an Internet connection. It can determine where you are and pull up Google Earth to provide you with a 3-D map to figure out where you need to go. Oh, and the camera? It’s connected to Flickr so you can upload on the go.

via geeksugar

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Know who is talking about you on the Internet

Filed Under Lifehacks, Tools | 2007-06-24, 23:55


Lifehacker has a great little how-to on using MonitorThis to keep tabs on certain subjects on the internet. Most people will use it for the obvious ego searching, but it’s also handy for keeping on top of news on other subjects you’re interested in. Learn how with Feed your ego with RSS.

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How to Improve Your Night Vision

Filed Under Lifehacks, Video | 2007-06-24, 23:53

For many of us, the dark of the night is our friend, but how do you keep from barking your shins on the coffee table again? Ninja’s never seem to have these problems. Instructable’s user Sam Noyoun posted 10 tips on how to improve your night vision, including the old pirate eye-patch trick. This is one for those of us that can’t afford night vision goggles.


Improve Your Night Vision – video powered by Metacafe

via instructables

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Microsoft Surface

Filed Under Funny, Gadgets & Hardware, Video | 2007-06-20, 19:53

SarcasticGamer has a great take on Microsoft’s latest and greatest.

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Vinyl on the Highway

Filed Under Funny, Gadgets & Hardware | 2007-06-20, 18:27

record player in car
I’m sure most people have heard the jokes about installing a record player in your car. But apparently it was actually something that was done at one point. An article over at Crave has more info.

via Boing Boing via Bedazzled

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Dramatic Chipmunk..err prairie dog

Filed Under Funny, Video | 2007-06-20, 18:21

The source

The Remixes:
(NSFW Audio)

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Want an RSS feed?

Filed Under News | 2007-06-18, 17:36

I realized that I didn’t have a prominent link to the RSS feed for this blog on the page and only had 7 subscribers who had managed to find the feed somehow. So I added a link to the sidebar. If you want to keep tabs on Geeked.Info via RSS, go ahea dand subscribe to my feed!

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Change your crontab editor

Filed Under Tools | 2007-06-17, 21:33

For those that use *nix, crontab is a wonderful tool. But when you’re working on a new server and crontab -e is bringing up the dreaded vi to edit it, I cringe. I know some people swear by vi, but I’m a pico or nano man myself. So the first thing I do is add the following to the .profile file in my home directory:

EDITOR=pico; export EDITOR

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Photosynth blows my mind

Filed Under News, Tools, Video | 2007-06-15, 16:33

We saw this posted over on geeksugar and had to pick our jaw up off the floor. Photosynth is truly amazing technology and the fact that it works so quickly and smoothly is unbelievable. Imagine having gigs and gigs of photos and text accessible as fast as you can pan and zoom! Or taking images from flickr and creating an interactive 3-D model from the photos! I can’t wait…

UPDATE: We found another video describing the technology and giving a fly-through. There is a comment about how this is a collision between the physical world and the virtual world, but I think this is much more of a merging of the two realms, something we’re going to see more and more of over the next decade.

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