The Gender Genie analyzes text and tells you whether it thinks the author was male or female. It got it right with three different things of mine I entered.
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The Perfect (Solar) Storm
I’d never heard of this before. Cool!
Reading report
I gave a reading at the Weyburn Public Library last Thursday night. This is notable because, although I grew up in Weyburn and am a former editor of the Weyburn Review, I’ve rarely read in the city–only a couple of times at schools, and never (until last week) at the library. It was an interesting …
The Ig Nobel Prizes of 2003
May I have the envelope please…it’s time to once again inform my faithful readers of the results of the Ig Nobel Prizes, given annually by the science humour magazine Annals of Improbable Research to those who have done something that first makes people laugh, then makes them think. This year’s winners received a solid gold …
I knew they must be good for something…
A recent Canadian study proves that we’re not just wasting our time when we play video games.
But is it art?
Aside from the references to New Labour, this article says pretty much what I feel about the state of modern art.
Anti-spammers take on automatons posing as humans
It’s not quite Blade Runner, but it sure sounds science-fictional.
Gorillas
I recently toured the Toronto Zoo, exciting to me because I’ve never seen it, and exciting to our two-year-old, Alice, because currently her favorite story is a short adaptation of Disney’s animated adaptation of Tarzan, in which many of the characters are gorillas–and one of the Toronto zoo’s star features is called the Gorilla Rainforest. It’s …
This not a hoax…
Just found this. It appears to be legitimate. But then, it would, wouldn’t it?
Information does not really travel faster than light.
In a way, I’m disappointed.
What he said
Wil McCarthy says what I feel about China’s manned spaceflight. Preach on, brother!
Good news from Iraq?
Good news from Iraq? Yes, believe it or not. And that’s good news for everyone. However you felt about the invasion (personally, I was torn) it’s in everyone’s interest that we succeed in turning Iraq into a stable democratic country. Those calling for the U.S. to get out (there are demonstrations planned to that effect), …
My latest live walk and vlog
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