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[apocalypsos]

Wendy's Doubles Chili Finger Reward to $100,000 -- I'm just waiting for the punchline to the old joke, where somebody finds the Band-Aid.

A bunch of computer-generated gibberish masquerading as an academic paper has been accepted at a scientific conference in a victory for pranksters at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Hee. It's funny to read the excerpts, but then again, I have no idea what normal scientific phrasing means, so why stop now?

A Berlin couple plan to have their first baby at an art gallery, the gallery owner said on Saturday, confirming a newspaper report. Um, eww.

A grandmother stopped an intruder from entering her home by lobbing a heavy garden gnome at him, police said Friday *snerk* There's a mental image for you. :)

Well, that's part four of the 10.5 recap done. Now off to work on the final part.

Comments

[killerweasel.livejournal.com]

You did see that at one point they thought the finger had come froma leopard attack, right?

http://www.kirotv.com/news/4374291/detail.html

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Yeah, this whole thing is just screwed up. And seriously, I don't believe for a minute that Wendy's had a thing to do with it, not with her history of suing restaurants.

[nycdeb.livejournal.com]

I love the quote from the gnome-tossing grandma "He lay there and I began to scream. I went back into the kitchen and found a rolling pin in case he came down. I didn't want to break another gnome."

No, because those gnomes don't grow on trees you know. :-)

[gruyere.livejournal.com]

A grandmother stopped an intruder from entering her home by lobbing a heavy garden gnome at him, police said Friday *snerk* There's a mental image for you. :)

Especially if you're me and just spent three weeks writing a song about gnomes.

[ajinamoto.livejournal.com]

I'm waiting for the "pull my finger" jokes.

The MIT thing

[ficangel.livejournal.com]

And the students are now trying to raise enough money to actually go and present this paper in Florida, plus people are freaking out and asking if this means that a computer has finally passed the Turing test. People are strange. Funny, but strange.

Re: The MIT thing

[lots42.livejournal.com]

A computer didn't pass the Turing test. Several HUMANS did not pass the Turing test.

[teenygozer.livejournal.com]

You've got to go to BBC News for the best lines:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cornwall/4438435.stm

"I politely told him not to move and grabbed one of my garden gnomes and threw it at him and hit him.

"He lay down for quite a while and didn't move."

BWAHAHAHAHA! What I wouldn't give to hear the whole interview.

[lots42.livejournal.com]

Travel Myths Number 56: Gnomes cannot fight crime.

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