Check out Gizmodo’s post: Wolfram Alpha: A Bit Racist?
Searching for the word “dumb” brings up “results for Racist synonym trees that associated the word dumb with black.”
W|A explained this essentially as follows:
“One thing Wolfram|Alpha gives is synonyms for dumb. An example is “dim”.
…So, “dim” is a synonym of “dumb”. But what are synonyms of “dim”?”
What this doesn’t explain, in my mind, is the results and synonym trees for the “N word.”
Better yet, contrast that with the the synonym tree for “honky”:
Now can someone please lexicographically explain the fuck out of that shit?
Category: Web
Star Wars ABC Illustrations
A is for Ackbar, B is for Bantha…
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Wolfram|Alpha is retarded*
No, I’m sorry, it just is.
And all the people who called it a “Google killer” are also retarded (in an ” isn’t sure what to do with your input” sense, that is).
* don’t worry – like all post-1999 web sites it will “learn over time”
Firefox bold text problem (that wasn’t actually a Firefox problem)
As the title indicates, I noticed a sudden problem today in Firefox (on Windows XP) when checking Gmail – all of the text was bold. So I fired up Chrome to see if FF was the problem and all of the text in Chrome was in italics… These two problems together indicated a corrupted system font.
If you have ever have this problem, you need to reinstall the Arial font family (TrueType). The executable installer can be found here or here.
Max loves keys and locks
Linky, linky: The Ultimate Lock Picker Exposes Weak Military Installations, Corporate Systems
Wired arranged a picking test for the best locks Medeco had to offer, and filmed the results.
Crazy exer-ball trick
Popular Science breaks down the science of it here, but after the first couple paragraphs it just started to look like blah blah blah blah blahblahblahblah…
DMFTW
The new Danger Mouse album is going to turn the record industry on its head – mark my words, this is the tipping point.
Internet Anagram Server
For future reference: An impressive anagram generator
The first two that come up for “Max Yoshida” are:
- Shady Axiom
- Dismay Hoax
Fail Whale
As far as I can tell, Twitter is filled with rich people who made their money online and inexplicably want to share their secrets to success with EVERYBODY!
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As I re-tweeted a while back: “For a small fee, I can teach you how to make money on Twitter asking for a small fee.”