The Q-Bert clip is from his Wave Twister movie, an awesome mixed-media animation synced with his album of the same name.

I first saw this "story" on reddit, then on slashdot and now here.. Is it that big a deal or is this just an example of the info overload thanks to "web 2.0"?

I was in India recently and noticed that instead of URLs many ads (on billboards, TV, radio, etc) gave out 5 digit SMS numbers (like "SMS 'info' to 45233 for details about ...") Presumably, you get a reply with more information.

I'm deeply disappointed that this wasn't first attempted in these here united states. Are our lawyers too busy with real cases?!

When we were intrigued by machines with gears and pistons and such, we imagined the universe as a big deterministic machine with "perfect" movements. Now, that we're in the midst of the "information economy", we see the universe as a computer.

Information theory is a good perspective for the universe but, as they say, the map is not the territory.

Interestingly, this is the kind of stuff AI agents are supposed to do in semantic web... but cheap labor often outdoes algorithms.