Thursday, April 26 2001

Harlan Hile and Drew Perttula : Toilet Paper

"When a motion sensor detects a visitor in the hallway outside, toilet picks from a list of sounds to play to encourage a visitor to enter. If toilet has a visitor, it plays appropriate sounds based on state from the seat positions, the laser beam across the seat being broken, the light switch being off, etc. It scrolls news headlines across the LCD panel. When the toilet is flushed, the lights flash and the music fades. If the seat is left up when the door is opened, a reminder sound plays. Toilet also serves web pages to the outside that allow us to view history from the database, request specific CD tracks, control the volume, and send messages to the LCD screen."

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Dennis McCarthy : Introduction to VoiceXML

(mp3)

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351 -> ./bin/perl/dictwotd

No defintions found for 'bricolage' Frankly, I'm a bit suprised by this. A quick and dirty investigation suggests that the word is less likely to appear in the more snoot-ish dictionaries or those whose online database was built using a pre-1960 reference. In the meantime, I invite you enjoy the ASL Sign of the Day page, the Dictionary of Difficult Words and the Wilton's Word & Phrase Origins site.

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