GorT came across a brief post by Seth Godin regarding autonomous cars and tends to agree with his broad assessment. His summary: Self-driving cars are going to be a huge transformational disruption, and they’re probably going to happen faster than … Continue reading →
The Czar and Volgi were kicking around in the Castle Rumpus room late last week and decided that they’d do some sprucing up of the place. Their first target? The website. After hours and hours of beating their heads against … Continue reading →
“The practice of sport is a human right. Every individual must have the possibility of practicing sport, without discrimination of any kind and in the Olympic spirit, which requires mutual understanding with a spirit of friendship, solidarity and fair play.” … Continue reading →
The Lord Is Risen, Alleluia! Of course, your Gormogons would strongly recommend using Bing to search the internet. Maybe for a while to show Google what you think of their celebration of Easter. GorTGorT is an eight-foot-tall robot from the … Continue reading →
Guy lets his underage daughter start a blog and email account on Google. Under terms of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, Google immediately whacked her blog and email account until further notice. Like, say, when she turns 13 and … Continue reading →
Your Czarness, As much as I fear incurring wrath from the Castle, I must confess that I describe myself, politically speaking, as, ahem, an ….independent. I do vote and so contradict your first point, and as you’ve now had the … Continue reading →
Pretty funny…at least (or probably) in a geeky way. GorTGorT is an eight-foot-tall robot from the 51ˢᵗ Century who routinely time-travels to steal expensive technology from the future and return it to the past for retroinvention. The profits from this … Continue reading →
This is great work. A collection of bizarre scenes, colorful locations, and just freaking weirdness captured by Google’s Street View car. The Czar was able to positively identify one of these locations, and went to StreetView to see if the … Continue reading →
Not in the LEAST safe for work. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →If you haven’t heard, Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt did an OpEd piece in the WSJ that focused on the demise of traditional journalism – specifically newspapers and news magazines. You can read it here. The more amusing piece is here, … Continue reading →
Quick clarification to GorT’s followup regarding AT&T and Apple agreeing to block the iPhone’s integration of VoIP technology. VoIP does not make calls over the internet; it merely uses a switched, digitized, and packetized transmission using the internet protocol (IP), … Continue reading →
As a follow up, AT&T has admitted that it struck a deal with Apple to prevent VoIP (Voice over IP – basically sending phone calls over the internet) applications to be deployed to the iPhone in an attempt to protect … Continue reading →
Eric Reasons of The Tinker’s Mind writes in pointing us at his blog entry here. The conclusion sentence is what we need to be mindful of as the government tinkers (no offense, Eric) with innovation: “The market has room for … Continue reading →
I enjoyed reading a decent opinion piece in the WSJ today at the beach. I don’t quite agree with all of the recommendations of the author, but would wholly embrace the statement: “Technology doesn’t wait around, so it’s all going … Continue reading →
Right. Well, as you know, GorT sent a message to the world by deliberately causing the Kaguya probe to crash into the surface of the Moon as a demonstration of our power. JAXA, Japan’s version of NASA (except they seem … Continue reading →
The Czar found another way to waste time productively, and one that should easily occupy nearly all the Volgi’s day for the better part of a week. It’s a website, properly named Google Sightseeing. Click on that link, as this … Continue reading →
Hard to imagine their brand going down, but look what they did to Yahoo! But here, they admit their search engine’s primary merit, algorithm-based objectivity, is false. Time to move to ask.com? Via Buttle’s World. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent … Continue reading →
So is Hubert Chang’s claim true? Google has exploded and continues to do so taking on a multitude of competitors (mostly Microsoft) in a variety of fields: search technology, web-based email, web-based applications, photo sharing, maps, location-based services, data centers, … Continue reading →
