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<p>When the computers turn against us, Terminator-style, we may find out, amongst much else, that they know more about the Muppet Show than we expected.</p> <p>This is because of the <a href="http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Muppet_Wiki">Muppet Wiki</a> made possible through the work of Wikipedia creator Jimmy Wales, interviewed by Paul Marks for the <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19325896.300-interview-knowledge-to-the-people.html">New Scientist</a></p> <p>This resource is really useful. Remember seeing Billy Joel on the Muppet Show but have no idea which episodes to seek out? Muppet Wiki:</p> <blockquote> <p> Billy Joel (b. 1949) appeared on Sesame Street during Season 20 (1988), singing &#8220;Just the Way You Are&#8221; with Oscar the Grouch.<p>He also sang &#8220;The Alphabet Song&#8221; to the Anything Muppets.<p>His song, &#8220;New York State of Mind,&#8221; was sung by Floyd in episode 209 of The Muppet Show and by Rowlf on the album Ol&#8217; Brown Ears is Back.</p> </blockquote> <p>Not that we should be surprised when intelligent computers seek to out-compete us as this will surely represent just another day in earth&#8217;s evolutionary story. The fact that the &#8220;wedging out&#8221; of our species is being performed by machines may make interesting but probably incidental news around the galaxy and beyond.</p>

<p>When the computers turn against us, Terminator-style, we may find out, amongst much else, that they know more about the Muppet Show than we expected.</p> <p>This is because of the <a href="http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Muppet_Wiki">Muppet Wiki</a> made possible through the work of Wikipedia creator Jimmy Wales, interviewed by Paul Marks for the <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19325896.300-interview-knowledge-to-the-people.html">New Scientist</a></p> <p>This resource is really useful. Remember seeing Billy Joel on the Muppet Show but have no idea which episodes to seek out? Muppet Wiki:</p> <blockquote> <p> Billy Joel (b. 1949) appeared on Sesame Street during Season 20 (1988), singing &#8220;Just the Way You Are&#8221; with Oscar the Grouch.<p>He also sang &#8220;The Alphabet Song&#8221; to the Anything Muppets.<p>His song, &#8220;New York State of Mind,&#8221; was sung by Floyd in episode 209 of The Muppet Show and by Rowlf on the album Ol&#8217; Brown Ears is Back.</p> </blockquote> <p>Not that we should be surprised when intelligent computers seek to out-compete us as this will surely represent just another day in earth&#8217;s evolutionary story. The fact that the &#8220;wedging out&#8221; of our species is being performed by machines may make interesting but probably incidental news around the galaxy and beyond.</p>