As I mentioned before the new Wolfram | Alpha engine is now live.

Enjoy!

Some

Sample

Inputs

Cool. They still have some bugs to work out, as the "plaintext inputs" don't appear to be working quite properly. (See the last example.)

It's long past, but still amusing:

Hilarious.

Screen on the Green has been canceled.

Can we save it?

If I hear one more person begin a sentence, "So I went to the chiropractor and apparently..." I'm going to engage in some anger management.

Update: The only statement worse than that is when one follows it up with "...and now I need to go back for them to run some diagnostics..."

NEWSFLASH: Chiropractors are not doctors. They cannot run diagnostics! From the wikipedia article:

Chiropractic's early philosophy was rooted in vitalism, spiritual inspiration and rationalism. A philosophy based on deduction from irrefutable doctrine helped distinguish chiropractic from medicine, provided it with legal and political defenses against claims of practicing medicine without a license, and allowed chiropractors to establish themselves as an autonomous profession. This "straight" philosophy, taught to generations of chiropractors, rejects the inferential reasoning of the scientific method, and relies on deductions from vitalistic first principles rather than on the materialism of science.

Rejecting the scientific method, eh? Good stuff!

Because I care.