http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2011/02/17/benzimmer/ A blog about life, past and future. Written by DISCOVER contributing editor and columnist Carl Zimmer. Sat, 26 May 2012 01:25:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2011/02/17/benzimmer/comment-page-1/#comment-53025 Daniel J. Andrews Mon, 21 Feb 2011 05:06:12 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/?p=4087#comment-53025 heh...now I know what a snowclone is. Didn't realize the overlord one had originated with The Simpsons. I must have seen that episode in a rerun and assumed they had picked it up from popular culture somewhere rather than it being the source of a pop culture reference first time it aired. heh…now I know what a snowclone is. Didn’t realize the overlord one had originated with The Simpsons. I must have seen that episode in a rerun and assumed they had picked it up from popular culture somewhere rather than it being the source of a pop culture reference first time it aired.

]]> http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2011/02/17/benzimmer/comment-page-1/#comment-52939 Reading Digest: Robot Apocalypse Edition « Dead Homer Society Fri, 18 Feb 2011 18:33:28 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/?p=4087#comment-52939 [...] Is It Time to Welcome Our New Computer Overlords? – A rather nice piece about that Jeopardy! computer, The Simpsons, and how even our most advanced machines still misses the point quite frequently.  Elementary chaos theory tells me that we’re all gonna die anyway (via).  [...] [...] Is It Time to Welcome Our New Computer Overlords? – A rather nice piece about that Jeopardy! computer, The Simpsons, and how even our most advanced machines still misses the point quite frequently.  Elementary chaos theory tells me that we’re all gonna die anyway (via).  [...]

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