"Nobody is suggesting that the Web should somehow accommodate the rococo glories of The New York Observer's headlines in that paper's prime. But the need to attract attention from computer-generated algorithms sometimes makes the headlines seem like a machine thought them up as well." Machines tell lie in headline! No such illustrative, exciting photos as promised in headline are contained herein! BWA HA HA HA HA. – END COMMUNICATION -
Monday, May 17, 2010
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If The Machines keep this up, Dave Eggers will respond by producing another issue of the Panorama. And then were will The Machines be?
Wonder what machines are worth, really. Somewhere between $25 and a thousand. I think.
As for headlines, I did get a chuckle out of the (NY) Posts "Slash and Spurn" this morning.
http://www.nypost.com/
My RSS feeds are hand-calligraphed in 13th century Frankish by Benedictine Monks in the French Alps, and delivered by St. Bernard. The apple-brandy is just gravy
There's nothing quite like a hand-illuminated manuscript of the day's blogs.
Yeah, letterpressed digests of the week's truncated feeds are a distant second.
that Gutenberg is such a talentless hack, why don't they just give him a column at WaPo already
Do the machines know what we're going to do with their microchips? DO THEY?
Programmable toaster ovens! That's what.
how about quivering, beatboxing touch-activated christmas trees made in China, available for $5.99 at a CVS near you