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Stupid Box Tricks for Intellectuals
This is stupid but it makes me laugh the more I think about it. The original idea is due to Claude Shannon. Hat tip to Boing Boing.
Posted by Alex Tabarrok on April 24, 2008 at 02:10 PM in The Arts | Permalink
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No reference to Claude Shannon would be complete withough a reference to his juggling machine.
http://www2.bc.edu/~lewbel/shortsha.mov
Posted by: Steve R at Apr 24, 2008 2:39:36 PM
Cure. Was a fairly common barroom gimmick back in the 60s.
Posted by: Buce at Apr 24, 2008 2:56:09 PM
When I laugh (I did) about that video I'm intellectual? Cool..
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Posted by: Sohaib at Apr 24, 2008 4:18:54 PM
I don't get it.
Posted by: AC at Apr 24, 2008 4:26:15 PM
Neither do I. Is the joke that the contraption is pointless or is there something else to it?
Posted by: steve at Apr 24, 2008 5:11:43 PM
That was great. Of course software does this all the time, though the mechanical analogue would be a machine that punches you in the face before turning itself off.
Posted by: Colin Danby at Apr 24, 2008 5:20:59 PM
This clearly went well over my head...
Posted by: John at Apr 24, 2008 6:08:36 PM
The original is so much cooler:
http://www.kugelbahn.ch/sesam_e.htm
Posted by: Christian Desrosiers at Apr 24, 2008 9:11:17 PM
This is the original one....
http://www.samstoybox.com/toys/LittleBlackBox.html
I'm old enough that I have to admit to having one in the '60s.
Posted by: Paul Homchick at Apr 24, 2008 9:44:27 PM
I am secure enough to admit that I don't get it, either.
Posted by: Bob Murphy at Apr 24, 2008 9:50:08 PM
I need one of these
Posted by: Chewxy at Apr 25, 2008 3:03:14 AM
Hilarious!
Posted by: anon at Apr 25, 2008 7:40:12 AM
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Not sure, but I think the point is that you turn the box on and the hand reaches up to turn it off.
Reminds me of the educational bureaucracy in Pennsylvania.
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Posted by: michael at Apr 25, 2008 1:28:31 PM
Somewhat amusing, but only after someone explained it to me.
Now Monty Python ... that's FUNNY.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071853/quotes
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