Posted By: Dan Fernandez | Aug 8th, 2008 @ 9:11 AM | 74,554 Views | 14 Comments
This Week on Channel 9, Dan is joined by Scott Hanselman and Charlie "ChadK" Eriksen in studio to discuss:

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Bas
Bas
It finds lightbulbs.
I think Scott meant the "uncanny valley", with that extremely elaborate explanation of the trough in the chart.  Tongue Out

Anyway, that texting thing... is that US only? And this is my personal favorite example of Creative Commons stuff:


(Jonathan Coulton looked for some random CC pictures on Flickr and wrote a song about them.)
Charles
Charles
Welcome Change
Great to see a Niner on C9 again! Nice job, Charlie! Smiley
C
Glucose
Glucose
Scott Hanselman
Ya, that was a really spastic attempt at explaning the Uncanny Valley, which totally fell apart as you could see. Smiley I just couldn't remember what the darn thing was called. Thanks for figuring it out!
Great little show, guys, I love these.

Scott, don't feel bad about trough. I've always pronounced it as "traw - th" Smiley
HumanCompiler
HumanCompiler
Compiling humans...and code
I like the Terminator music while the robot was walking around.

I also think episodes get longer when Scott's in them.  Tongue Out
littleguru
littleguru
<3 Seattle
Nice show. I liked it very much. Smiley Are there more niners coming up? Tongue Out
Minh
Minh
WOOH! WOOH!
Here's an example of the uncanny valley... for some reason, the old man doesn't seem as scary...


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