Fantastic show.

It is comparatively easy to make computers exhibit adult level performance on intelligence tests or playing checkers, and difficult or impossible to give them the skills of a one-year-old when it comes to perception and mobility.

Moravec’s Paradox on Wikipedia (via Bobulate)

This is how it works: You go to an adult movie store. Everybody takes turns reading out one porno title. If you laugh, you die. Everybody has three lives.

Just heard about this today. Great game.

Dinosaurs and laser weapons! Seriously, what more do you need for a great show?

I loved the Dino-Riders TV series when I was five or six. It’s hard to imagine that it fascinated me so much even though there were only so few episodes made.

I watched a lot less TV back then, I guess.

Hat-tip to Engadget for bringing this to my attention.

Psephology (“Lore of Pebbles”) is the statistical analysis of elections.

The Economist loves to use words most people have to look up.