Friday, April 13, 2007

Coffee Table Book Table

It's really interesting how many inventions deal with "Signaling From The Grave." It was common for people to be buried alive, mistaken for being dead. You can find more on the internet for free there. I consoled myself with the thought that it'd make a good coffee table book. This spawned the invention of a coffee table internet browser. It has a glass top and is touch-sensitive. You could put a "blind" function on it where the screen would go dark, but still respond to the random input of some banal task, like eating dinner. After awhile you turn the screen on and see where your blind internet surfing took you. Maybe somewhere completely random and unexpectedly cool, like here. Pun aside, I love statiscs. No, fuck that. I don't. But I like this one part. If you flip a coin 100 times, there's a huge chance that a string of 6 straight heads (or tails) will emerge. This random # generator link above produced a string of eight! Dn't you just love it when stochastic calculus warrants an exclamation point?

1 comments:

lone-star-jill said...

brilliant!


but what's the adobe pdf double entendre?? am I that slow today?