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The Ad Generator
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Provate questo " Ad Generator " :-) E' assolutamente geniale. Cito dalla pagina iniziale del sito (la formattazione è mia): The ad generator is a generative artwork that explores how advertising uses and manipulates language. Words and semantic structures from real corporate slogans are remixed and randomized to generate invented slogans. These slogans are then paired with related images from Flickr, thereby generating fake advertisements on the fly. By remixing corporate slogans, I intend to show how the language of advertising is both deeply meaningful, in that it represents real cultural values and desires, and yet utterly meaningless in that these ideas have no relationship to the products being sold . In using the Flickr images, the piece explores the relationship between language and image, and how meaning is constructed by the juxtaposition of the two.
The Devil's Dictionary 2.0
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The Devil's Dictionary 2.0 è un dizionario che in qualche misura "rivede" l'originale "Devil's Dictionary" del secolo diciannovesimo... (ecco qui un post su un blog che ne parla ). Bello, alcune definizoni sono esilaranti. Esempio, ecco la definizione per C# C# , proper noun A harbinger of the apocalypse, the final sign of the coming of the End Times, a portent of doom. Not coincidentally, a fairly well-designed Microsoft product. ROTFL
dal N.Y.Times: Google Answer to Filling Jobs Is an Algorithm
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/03/technology/03google.html?ex=1168405200&en=647cf1f1811ca25b&ei=5070&emc=eta1 Una citazione dall'articolo (la formattazione è mia): "(...) Google — in typical eccentric fashion — has created an automated way to search for talent among the more than 100,000 job applications it receives each month. It is starting to ask job applicants to fill out an elaborate online survey that explores their attitudes, behavior, personality and biographical details going back to high school. The questions range from the age when applicants first got excited about computers to whether they have ever tutored or ever established a nonprofit organization. The answers are fed into a series of formulas created by Google’s mathematicians that calculate a score — from zero to 100 — meant to predict how well a person will fit into its chaotic and competitive culture ." !!!