Shooting fish in a barrel

[m31andy]

Ah, back to looking at newscientist and we have two absolute gems today.

Firstly, contender for the "Pigs Might Fly" award, is the news that Microsoft's "Clippy" gave software assistants a bad name, but a new helper developed by the US military hopes to be less annoying.. Riiiiight.

And secondly, front-runner for the "Ask a Silly Question" award is the revelation that children up to five years old may colour trees blue or grass red because their memories can't "bind" together the colour and shape of an object.

Now, is it me or does that imply that us 'rational adults' see that grass is green because we've been taught that grass is green? Huh? Quite a spectacular piece of brainwashing there, then. (Which is grey, as everyone knows. Unless you've got a brain haemorrhage. Then it's Baileys and tomato juice coloured…

*g*

Comments

[bob]

how long till it rises up and kills us. military AIs are always a bad idea :)

[m31andy.livejournal.com]

*giggle* What with that and the domestic robots which all have the same personality, the future is pretty much shagged...

Pass the beer...

The Brain Haemorrhage

[peppapig.livejournal.com]

a new cocktail there?

Re: The Brain Haemorrhage

[m31andy.livejournal.com]

A very old cocktail. We used to make them back at college. (it's vile, btw)

There was also the variation with Creme de Menthe, hopefully not_here could remind me what it was called though...