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Google Monopoly game starts tomorrow

This is why I have random news item widgets on my home page. If I didn’t I wouldn’t have seen the reference on Mashable, which led to the website which led to the blog. They all say pretty much the same thing, starting Wednesday the 9th you can get $3 million Monopoly dollars and start [...]

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Is Cadie wrong or just a nonconformist?

Google’s AI experiment, Cadie, being represented by a sad-eyed panda that would look much more in context if she(?) were depicted on velvet instead of white pixels, has come out with initial statements and recommendations.  And while I highly disagree that Redmond, home of a certain giant software company and self-proclaimed bicycle capital of the [...]

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There is now an ETA on first contact

I like people that are confident enough in what they’re predicting to say it’s going to happen within two decades – whether it’s meeting aliens or predicting the end of the world. This time though, it’s the aliens (read the story at the Daily Galaxy.)  So it’s time to start figuring out the appropriate etiquette, [...]

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