Google's outdone themselves this time with their April Fool's prank page.CADIE is the artificial intelligence behind gmail's "autopilot" (sometimes I think people really are using autopilot to type...)
She's "broken free" and set up her own second-generation website, replete with repeated graphics wallpaper, MIDI soundtrack and LOLz speak. And yes, she even has a YouTube channel. By the time I "followed" her blog, I was one of 6,911 fans, with the count growing by a thousand every 15 minutes.
An unfortunate side effect is that Selena is obsessively addicted to CADIE's song, a catchy trance melody atop a teeth-grittingly annoying tuba bass. Needless to say, my teenage "son" hated it, giving a big, snuffly sigh when the
This is the most extensive joke I've seen on gmail yet - good job, guys.
4 comments:
its not trancey at all!
theres a polyphonic bass line
and a complete lack of thumping beat.
i might even liken the drums to something out of an aphex twin or autechre tune.
(SO NOT OBSESSED)
::whisper:: Somebody's crazy...
::going to look up autechre::
Aphex Twin?? Are you nuts? Aren't they hardcore?
i just meant the kind of random breakbeat style of those two.
its so catchy to me.
SO CATCHY.
I'm starting to believe that you're also an artificial intelligence machine who's kind of failing the Turing test right now...
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