October 13, 2006

A.I.

The logic of amazon's response to an unsuccessful search bemuses (and amuses, which used to be the same) me. I am desperately looking for this film :

which is apparently not even out yet, or not in DVD anyway. I ask amazon.com for "ten canoes" and it suggests two things: a dvd of Nine Lives and a book called Canoe Paddles: A Complete Guide to Making Your Own. I pictured myself going for the dvd solely because its title is grammatically similar to the one I was looking for, and buying the book because I need something canoe-related to do while watching the film-with-the-nearly-right-name.

I suppose artificially intelligent devices are not ready to take over the world just yet.

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