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The fruit loop bird. Just follow your nose. I don't know what kind of toucan it is but I saw this at the last minute. I was surprised I even got the shot.
trying out www.mturk.com/mturk - it seems to have mostly spammy things to do but I found a couple of word matching exercises (apparently for a research project but perhaps spam?) and transcribed a short mp3 - an interview with one of the design team architects of the World Trade Center in New York. I made $3 (very low hourly rate!!) and transferred this to my amazon account - gift certificate balance so I can use it for another book purchase. this worked ok, I now have $3 to spend.
the site has an interesting history - tinyurl.com/39wel5 - though seems to have been overtaken by spammers now who have HITs for spammy content. the site also seems to be targeted towards American and Indian workers as only US bank accounts can be used, and people in India can have checks raised in Rupees. though for other countries you can transfer the balance to your amazon gift voucher.
the idea of Human Intelligent agents is interesting - they call it Artificial Artificial Intelligence. it's a type of crowdsourcing - but not as we know it ! it reminds me of a science fiction novel - perhaps one of Neal Stephenson's. similar to the rentacoder or yourmaninindia sites or even craigslist.
23/04/2009
too sad that i had to jailbreak him just to be able to change the screensaver pictures.
@amazon "this should not be necessary! this should be a standard feature!"
wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Kindle_Screen_Saver_Hack_for_all...
By local Auburn dentist, Kenneth H. Fox. He sculpted many large concrete statues like this throughout the town of Auburn, California. The nakedness of some have created controversy (like Prometheus), while others are an ode to the gold-mining era.
This particular statue is outside his dental office at 391 Auburn Ravine Road, along with a group of others.