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Computer Therapy

By The Town Scryer, April 26, 2012August 21, 2019

The following is a transcript of a conversation between a young woman giving the Touring Test to the ELIZA program (Named after the character in George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion) in the Project MAC computer at MIT in 1966.

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A Most Dapper Demonstration

By The Town Scryer, April 25, 2012August 21, 2019

Some nattily-attired chaps protesting the coming of Abercrombie and Fitch to Savile Row, London.
The protest began in earnest at 10:15am, when chumrades in arms marched around the corner to Abercrombie’s flagship store on Burlington Gardens, stabbin…

Burning Art In Italy

By The Town Scryer, April 19, 2012November 15, 2023

On Monday artist and museum curator Antonio Manfredi burned a painting as the artist watched via Skype. Manfredi has stated that he intends to burn three paintings a week in protest of the harsh cuts the austerity measures have imposed on cultur…

Racism, or a Matter of Perspective?

By The Town Scryer, April 17, 2012November 15, 2023

The Swedish Minister of Culture, Lena Adelsohn Lijeroth, has become the focal point of a controversy in which she has been accused of racism. There have been calls for her resignation. It all began when the Minister participated in an art…

Donating Your Head to Theater

By The Town Scryer, April 17, 2012October 11, 2017

When the Polish composed Andre’ Tchaikowski died in 1982, he donated his body to science, but had left instructions requesting that his head, or rather his skull, be donated to the Royal Shakespeare Company in the hope that he might have t…

One Day of GOP News Feed

By The Town Scryer, April 14, 2012October 11, 2017

Glen Beck: Most Americans are in bed with absolute evil and worshiping Baal
“One of the problems we have even as Christians is I’ll guarantee you most Christians cannot tell you the two parables Jesus taught about capital gains tax, nor can the te…