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08-16-2006, 08:44 PM
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| The greatest link in the world! http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo
Some other Scientific American subscribers may already have been introduced to this link...
...read the article then scroll to the bottom, or just scroll to the bottom if you can't be bothered...
SPOILER BELOW!
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08-16-2006, 08:45 PM
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| Anyone else have a nagging suspicion that Inquartata, is really a similar bot? 
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08-16-2006, 08:55 PM
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| I like Google's attempt to come up with relevant ads. |
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08-16-2006, 08:58 PM
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| You're right, thats pretty amusing. 
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08-16-2006, 10:30 PM
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Originally Posted by RoninX Anyone else have a nagging suspicion that Inquartata, is really a similar bot?  | i've had those thoughts about inqy-poo for a long while now,  |
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08-16-2006, 11:56 PM
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| whoever invented that has WAY to much spare time. they should invent a machine to do my enlish essay instead of writing random s***.
it was funny though 
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08-17-2006, 12:21 PM
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| If this machine can't do your english essay I don't know what can! It even has inserted random (and completely fabricated) references...
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08-17-2006, 12:52 PM
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| You had me intersted until I realized the last word in the link was a "m" and not a "r" and "n" that were too close together. 
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08-17-2006, 03:50 PM
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Originally Posted by Fencergrl You had me intersted until I realized the last word in the link was a "m" and not a "r" and "n" that were too close together.  | you never know... keep refreshing and you might just get lucky 
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