I turn on the TV and every few minutes these days you have lawyers asking viewers to call in case they or someone they know have mesothelioma (another word for Asbestos Cancer?). I wonder if you just call and not give any real information, they would pay you. After all when you have these terms in an ad and unknown people click them, publishers do get paid.
How much money are these lawyers actually making to give hundreds of thousands of dollars for spurious clicks?
I found quite a bit of information on this whole industry at http://www.asbestosresource.com/litigation/lawsuits.html which is a non-profit (I think) research site for tracking Asbestos claims
Anyone have any comments on how big this whole Asbestos fiasco industry has become?
Talkbacks please!!
Friday, January 20, 2006
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
Kill Bill Soundtrack
If you've seen Kill Bill then you know what I'm talking about. The soundtrack for Kill Bill for both the volumes is just fantastic. I love the art work of the CDs and I love most of the songs.
Just listen to Nancy Sinatra's Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) or That Certain Female by Charlie Feathers or The Lonely Shepherd by Zamfir or Santa Esmeralda (Don't let me be misunderstood) and you will know what I am talking about.
And doesn't Uma Thruman look just gorgeous on the artwork!!!!!
Mechanical What??
Amazon recently released a beta program called Mechanical Turk that makes use of human intelligence to solve problems
that are very difficult for computers to do.
It uses the concept of a "Human Intelligence Task"
For example a HIT might ask: "Is there a pizza parlour in this photograph?"
Typically these tasks are extraordinarily difficult for computers, but simple for humans to answer.
It's quite an interesting concept BUT the amount of time and spent in doing these mundane tasks is really not well compensated and I would personally, rather take my time and do something more rewarding.
Here is the link
http://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome
Maybe you find it more appealing than I do
that are very difficult for computers to do.
It uses the concept of a "Human Intelligence Task"
For example a HIT might ask: "Is there a pizza parlour in this photograph?"
Typically these tasks are extraordinarily difficult for computers, but simple for humans to answer.
It's quite an interesting concept BUT the amount of time and spent in doing these mundane tasks is really not well compensated and I would personally, rather take my time and do something more rewarding.
Here is the link
http://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome
Maybe you find it more appealing than I do
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