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July 16
xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe
xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe
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July 15
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And the joke is: What’s the difference between Noah’s Ark and Joan of Arc?

Taylor: What’s the difference?

Steve: Noah’s Ark was made of wood and Joan of Arc was Maid of Orleans.

Mazlack: (laughs) But there is a similar joke: Two vultures get on the airplane and each one of them is carrying two dead raccoons. A stewardess comes up to them and says, “Gentlemen you’re only allowed one carrion”.

 Knock, Knock, Hal’s There: Teaching Computers Humor; and the 50th Anniversary of America’s First Satellite: Scientific American Podcast
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Dissecting a Knock-knock joke

Originally in the January 30, 2008 edition of Science Talk, the Scientific American weekly podcast. Transcript available at http://www.sciam.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=B2A19AC1-C819-23BD-D23B72C0224573E0 

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Steve: So what kind of context? I know for example that the earliest attempts at communicating humor to the program was knock-knock jokes; so what kind of context do you supply so that the knock-knock jokes get appreciated by the program?

Taylor: We put a lot of world knowledge and anthology, so we are taking everything that we can out of a children’s dictionary, because a lot of knock-knock jokes are for children, so we are hoping that the information that is there, a lot of information that is there will be useful for us. So when we are working with an algorithm for a knock-knock joke; we will take a third line and then come up with some words that sound alike and then we would go into the anthology to see how they fit with the sentence that’s in the fifth line.

Steve: The third line being the response to “Who’s there?” and the fifth line being the punch line of the knock-knock joke.

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July 12

Friends' witty FB status

James Wang is watching stock market swirl the toilet bowl.

Benjamin Han is making slides in LaTeX like no tomorrow.

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June 30

Creme That Egg! (via allonewordplease)

seen on Best of YouTube v.Podcast.

Amazing!

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June 26

twitter, hotdogsladies v.s. wilshipley - law of stores

hotdogsladies.pnghotdogsladies New law of Thermodynamics: eventually everything becomes a Verizon store. about 1 hour ago from web

wilshipley.jpg wilshipley @hotdogsladies ”Hey, kid, you gonna buy something? This store’s becoming a Starbuck’s in five minutes.” 15 minutes agofrom twitterrific in reply to hotdogsladies

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June 22

Flower Balloon (via FlowerClown)

A helpful reference for some surprise flower balloons for our slipped-so-not-a-surprise b-day party for Hui-Mian (Cotton) this afternoon.

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June 18

RAAM 2008 user-generated contents on the web

For a gal tracking friends riding at Race Across America 2008 (RAAM 2008) more than six thousand miles away, the #1 source is of course the race stats on raceacrossamerica.org along with the mighty (!) Google Earth. Searches on some popular media/social web sites acquainted me with icebrrrg, a crew member for Doug Levy (Solo Male, 50-59) on flickr and from there, on Twitter on June 12, four days into the race for the solos and Day 2 for the teams.

On June 18, I’m so delighted to see more fellow twitterers from RAAM. Like a growing spider web, the source of race info extends to more networks. The following is a brief list of RAAM08 on-line users. Annapolis is getting close! Go, people, go! 

Twitter

YouTube

Flickr

Smugmug

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June 16

Pomp and circumstance (via rfch215)

via CyberMax

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Threadless T-Shirts - Russell! Hows yer Ma! by Barrie Holden
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