At the 2006 White House Correspondence Dinner, comedian Stephen Colbert said, Now, I know there are some polls out there saying this man has a 32 percent approval rating. But guys like us, we don’t pay attention to the polls. We know that polls are just a collection of statistics that reflect what people are thinking in “reality”. And reality has a well-known liberal bias. Using this same tongue-in-cheek sarcasm, the website liberalbias.com is a feed dedicated to promoting and publicizing graphs, statistics, and other objectively measured data that somehow (inexplicably, for conservatives) support liberal beliefs, theories, or ideals.
The Talking Owl Project is a community experiment in artificial intelligence. “Talking Owls” are cute little conversational robots that you can create and talk to. Over time they will learn, their vocabularies will grow, and they will develop personalities based on the conversations you have had with them. Chatterbots (a concept most recently made popular by “Siri”, the iPhone Online Assistant) can be very sophisticated in some ways and very stupid in others. One of their biggest limitations is that they do not build up “concepts” of a topic being discussed during a conversation. As a result, they are good at simple question-and-answer sessions (like “Siri”), but bad at holding actual conversations. The Talking Owl Project innovates a new underlying … Continue reading.
Renata Bernal is a German-born American artist who has been creating artwork for more than 50 years. Over the course of a half-century long career, Renata has explored a wide range of media and forms of expression, and developed a unique and distinctive style of abstract expressionism that she has applied in paintings, drawings, lithographs and even egg decoration. Although she is currently retired from painting, she is still very active as a writer, teacher, and community activist. In 2010, Greg Stevens Holdings, LLC, launched an online media campaign as a tribute to bring attention to the artwork of Renata Bernal. In addition to her official website (renatabernal.com) and Wikipedia article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renata_Bernal), this campaign included a Facebook page, a Twitter … Continue reading.
The Anniversarator is the creative anniversary calculator. (Anniversary + Calculator = Anniversarator.) Do you know when your next Martian Birthday will be? Would you know it if you missed your 555 fortnight anniversary? If you are looking for an excuse to buy your loved one a present (or maybe demand a present in return?), the Anniversarator can help. You tell it when you were born or when your relationship started, and it tells you the most creative occasion that you can celebrate today. This project was created as a “toy” : a web-based application that took 2 hours to create, start to finish, while implementing all of the standards and norms of a free REST-based web service. As a result, … Continue reading.
This weekend we are launching our new education and advocacy project, liberalbias.com! Check out the blurb in our portfolio for a summary of the project. The project is hosted as a Tumblr feed, so if you are on Tumblr then be sure to follow the feed!
Since this project is just launching, we are eagerly looking for contributors, as well! Please contact us or submit through the website if you have something that you would like to see posted on liberalbias.com.
After literally over a year of negotiations, Greg Stevens Holdings, LLC, has acquired a fantastic domain name for one of our favorite political-activism concepts that we have been presented with. Just as a teaser, here is the “blurb” or slogan that we current have mocked up for the website concept:
Life just isn’t fair to conservatives. Everywhere you look, there is liberal bias. When companies pollute, they are punished by the liberal environment with unsightly smog and all kinds of health problems. When taxes on the wealthy were raised in the 1950′s and the 1990′s, the liberal economy boomed in spite of good old conservative common-sense. And when we bully and attack foreign countries, they act like liberals and get all mad at us instead of greeting us as liberators. Clearly, reality has a liberal bias. Our job here is to expose it.
Stay tuned for the domain name and the launch of the new website!