At last!

It’s about GOD-DAMN TIME someone FINALLY got around to building a harpsichord entirely out of Lego:

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Experience, for example, the white-knuckle thrill ride that is 24 from the tightly focused perspective of a bus enthusiast:

TV Guardian

TV Guardian detects and filters out approximately 95% of all offensive words and phrases on qualifying TV programs and videos. This is accomplished by a process which:

- reads the hidden signals for closed captions,
- detects offensive language,
- momentarily mutes the sound, and
- displays acceptable words and phrases.

I’m quite keen to see how this works in practice. Sadly the blurb doesn’t give examples of the phrases that TV Guardian substitutes for profanities and exclamatory uses of Christian deity names.

Still, the efficacy of this machine is entirely dependent on the quality of the subtitling. It would, for example, swiftly find itself stumped if faced with whoever or whatever was responsible for News 24 yesterday telling me there was “a serial killer on the Laos”.


NB: The website is worth visiting in order to have the product's blurb exhaustively read out to you by, apparently, Hank from King of the Hill.

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