Assorted items gleaned from cnn.com and elsewhere today:<\/p>\n
I always thought it would be cool to network together the Sim games. There\n could be a SimEarth world containing thousands of SimCities; each city would\n contain houses populated by The Sims; in the back yards there would be SimAnt\n games\n going\n on; and so on. Not quite the same thing, but The\n Sims Online<\/a>\n launches in December: it's a networked version of The Sims, letting your Sims\n interact with other people's Sims. I predict that it'll be as popular as EverQuest.<\/p>\n Various small police departments have decided to allow advertisers to buy\n ad <\/a>space\n on patrol cars<\/a>. Wacky.<\/p>\n The next Harry Potter movie will be directed by the guy who directed Y\n Tu Mama Tambien.<\/cite><\/p>\n I've always been fascinated by the notion of hooking up bots to talk with\n each other. Back in high school, we used to wish we had a copy of Racter<\/a> (the\n computer program that "wrote" The\n Policeman's Beard Is Half-Constructed<\/cite><\/a>) (also the source of longtime Hartman\/Evans catchphrase \"I need electricity. I need it for my dreams\") so\n we could (among other things) set up conversations\n between Racter and Eliza<\/a>. Now there are somewhat more sophisticated chatbots\n (though, honestly, I have yet to be impressed by any program that's won the\n Loebner Prize<\/a>),\n and someone hooked up one of them to itself, with entertaining\n results<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Assorted items gleaned from cnn.com and elsewhere today: I always thought it would be cool to network together the Sim…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}