Tag: Fun
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The DIY encyclopedia
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Andrew Orlowski
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Who can fail to love the can-do spirit and have-a-go enthusiasm of Wikipedia? When the site found itself in need of copyright-free illustrations, one user simply generated his own. We were alerted to this cockle-warming tale via a Something Awful forum, where member Stick_Fig, sets the scene like this: A group of users has decided…
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Now you know: Blogging is ‘un-Christian’
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Andrew Orlowski
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Blathering on blogs is un-Christian, an Evangelical church has warned. “Blogging has become a socially accepted practice – just as are dating seriously too young, underage drinking and general misbehaving,” notes the monthly of the Reformed Church of God, Ambassador Youth. Blogging “often makes the blogger feel good or makes him feel as if his…
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Do Artificial Intelligence Chatbots look like their programmers?
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Andrew Orlowski
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Do pets eventually resemble their owners? Or do owners get to look like their pets? It’s heck of a conundrum – but one we might now be a little closer to solving. For the past fortnight it’s been hard to escape the animated faces of “Joan”, or “George” the graphical representations of what we’re told…
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Addicted to antitrust, Microsoft outlines 12-Step Recovery
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Andrew Orlowski
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Antitrust addict Microsoft has outlined a 12-Step Recovery Program, which it says will help prevent it from lapsing back into anti-competitive practices in the future. The declaration follows three major “interventions” in fifteen years. A 1991 investigation by the Federal Trade Commission resulted in a Consent Decree signed in 1995. A 1997 investigation by the…
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Meet the Jefferson of ‘Web 2.0’
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Andrew Orlowski
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If Google’s PageRank reflects the “uniquely democratic nature of the web” – and if weblogs are the most empowering technology of our age – then how can we begin to fete a humble entrepreneur based in St Paul, MN? Very probably as the Gutenberg of the digital age. And the Jefferson. All rolled into one.…