It's True. They Do That

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I Thought This Day Would Never Arrive

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Meet CADIE

Google went nuts for April Fool’s Day. This is hysterical.

They “invented” CADIE: Cognitive Autoheuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity.

CADIE blog
CADIE Technical Specs
CADIE YouTube Page

Basically it is an Artificial Intelligence that will:

Respond to your email
Search your brain
Write your documents
Write your code
Recommend books
Recommend articles
Recommend Images
Add 3D to your browser
Show you ocean floor terrain maps
Tell you where to go

Most likely all or some of these links will be time sensitive, meaning that if you read them on any day other than April 1st you won't see what I'm referring to.

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Amazon Kindle...To Embrace or Resist?

"Resisting the Kindle" is article one in a series of two articles on The Atlantic.com, presenting the Pros and Cons of the Amazon Kindle.

This article presents the "against" argument and I think it is completely flawed. To be honest I think the author was stretching for a thesis simply to be part of a series of two articles examining the pros and cons of the Kindle.

"In Defense of the Kindle" is part two of the series which presents the "pro" or "in favor of" position on the device.

I think you could do away with almost the entire article and only read the response to the original article's discussion of Wallace Stevens and the loss of historical context at risk with the discontinued regular use of Bartlett's Quotations and it still pwns.

Please discuss. I would love to hear feedback on this.

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100% Awesome

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Today it snowed in South Louisiana for what I think is the third time in my lifetime. Check it out:

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What Do You Need to Know?

I've found another fantastic way for everyone to waste time at work! Isn't it amazing how skilled I am at finding these time-wasting methods?

Common Expressions and Sayings

This site has a list of expressions and their origins and meanings that we've most likely heard all of our lives and possibly even used without understanding fully.

Very informative. I came upon it while looking for the origin of the expression "all-singing, all-dancing".

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