This guy writes an awesome legal letter to The Pirate Bay.
(510): Someone changed my text signature to “Also, I think I might be gay” last night. Also, I think I might be gay.
Are you guys aware that Harold Ramis wrote:
Besides being some of the all-time comedy classics, they have together grossed $711.3 M domestically, according to IMDB.
This made me immediately think “Why can’t I just type “Domestic gross of “Animal House” + domestic gross of “Meatballs” + …etc.” into Google and get the response? It already does simple conversions, so that sort of calculation is no problem. It would seem that it’s a natural extension of an “information gathering” service to become an “information collation” service, especially when that information is factual data. Google will never be able to categorize poetry by quality, or come to a decision on the death penalty, but the gathering and then quick analysis or calculation of hard data points would seem to be something at which it could excel.
Granted I don’t expect it to be easy, but neither is scouring nearly the entirety of the web. I know this is some of the ideas behind the Semantic Web, but this would seem to be a far simpler and incredibly useful intermediary step. I’d really appreciate search that isn’t just “here is a mass of info” but “let me help you with that.”
This is already possible, using WolframAlpha: see.
Here is the full query, unfortunately not complete because the gross for Groundhog Day isn’t available.
Take this out, and the partial answer is immediately available: $608.8 million.
WolframAlpha is great for queries like this.
Adrian Tomine
(via zomg)
Let’s start with Gutenberg again. In 2008, Jason blogged about Stephen Fry’s brilliant documentary The Machine That Made Us, about Gutenberg’s career and his experiments with print. Fry even…
