Humour December 2006

More on the question of why the chicken crossed the road:


Newsgroup Humour

Below are a number of messages I saw on one of my favourite newsgroups. Can you tell that I'm a newsgroup junkie? - Trevor

Electric Sheep 

On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Ablang typed this:

Electric Sheep is a free, open source screen saver run by thousands of people all over the world. It can be installed on any ordinary PC or Mac. When these computers "sleep" the screen saver comes on and the computers communicate with each other by the internet to share the work of creating morphing abstract animations known as "sheep". The result is a collective "android dream" an homage to Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.

Anyone watching one of these computers may vote for their favourite animations using the keyboard. The more popular sheep live longer and reproduce according to a genetic algorithm with mutation and cross-over. Hence the flock evolves to please its global audience.

You may take a tour of the sheep web site and related documents http://www.electricsheep.org/

I am on dial-up - would this cost a fortune? Ewe.

Should I upgrade my ram? No, just let it go on a ram-page

That might cause a lambentable disaster.

Roger Hunt

Please chronicle the disaster somewhere on ewesnet. Meanwhile look at:

http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/lambtales/LAMBTALE.HTM

Frank Bohan
Have a nice day, or part thereof.


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