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“Three thousand years ago I had a disagreement with Zeus about the Trojan War, and he’s been harassing me ever since.”
“You were alive three thousand years ago?”
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Frosty The Snowman - Cosmic Color Ribbons - Mega Tree - Pixel Tree (by Nick Cosper)
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Why You Shouldn’t Give Your Baby a Fisher-Price iPad Seat for Christmas 
Like Matt Peckham and many commenters, I’m appalled—simply appalled—at the audacity of Fisher-Price. Those soulless bastards have taken their multi-decade commercial conquest of American childhood to new heights with the design and sale of the Apptivity™ seat for babies and toddlers to…
(via thetangential)
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A mild-mannered man says his life was completely ruined after Google’s autocomplete feature convinced the government he was building a bomb.
Though he intended to search the web for “How do I build a radio-controlled airplane,” Jeffrey Kantor, then a government contractor, says the search engine auto-completed his request, turning it into “”How do I build a radio controlled bomb?”
Before he realized Google’s error, Kantor had already pressed enter, sparking a chain reaction he says resulted in months of harassment by government officials leading up to his eventual termination.
Man Says Google’s Autocomplete Feature Destroyed His Life | Gawker
(via new-aesthetic)
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Robot telemarketing, via James D.
iO9: Freakishly realistic telemarketing robots are denying they’re robots
Recently, Time Washington Bureau Chief Michael Scherer received a phone call from an apparently bright and engaging woman asking him if he wanted a deal on his health insurance. But he soon got the feeling something wasn’t quite right.
After asking the telemarketer point blank if she was a real person or a computer-operated robot, she chuckled charmingly and insisted she was real. Looking to press the issue, Scherer asked her a series of questions, which she promptly failed. Such as, “What vegetable is found in tomato soup?” To which she responded by saying she didn’t understand the question. When asked what day of the week it was yesterday, she complained of a bad connection (ah, the oldest trick in the book).