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opmlBig Night
I’ve been thinking a lot about the final scene in the movie Big Night. I made a perfect omelette for breakfast this morning. And another for lunch. It’s a good time to start anew.
Learn Robotics The Orb Swarm Way
The Orb Swarm is slowly taking its place in history: The Institute for Personal Robots in Education has included an image of the Orb Swarm in the beginning of Chapter 12 of their fine textbook, Introduction To Computer Science Via Robots. The cha...
Culturally Important Video
Resist the urge to watch the wookie and jawa dance to ABBA and jump to 3 minutes and 10 seconds. on Youtube [See post to watch Flash video]
Youtube’s Profits
(via) As of Q1 2008, YouTube is not profitable, with its revenues being noted as “immaterial” by Google in a regulatory filing.[4] Its bandwidth costs are estimated at approximately $1 million a day.[4] So umm, where’s the money ...
Skinned Toys
. . . that reveal the robots underneath. I know this has been seen elsewhere, but here it is with a whole lot of other things, not the just Barney toy. . . Thanks to Matt Kirkland for putting these up and conducting the experiments that went wi...
How to Create an HTML dump of Mediawiki
If you will be traveling and need offline access to your Mediawiki wiki, what should you do? If you need to grab pages from a wiki that you aren’t the administrator of, you can try running a web crawler on it or try this Google Gears hack. B...
OrbSwarm Update: Our Babies Can Draw Circles!
The exhausted, late night, absinthe-laced parental pride could just be cut with a KNIFE around here people. . .The Orb Swarm Horde has done it again, working tirelessy into the night realize the Swarm’s dream of cute, shiny world domination....
Public Transit Systems are Usually a Bad Idea
“You could buy every single person who will regularly use this boondoggle their own personal Prius, and you’d not only use less energy, you’d spend a hell of a lot less money doing it.” (via) (and)
Rat Neurons running robots
New Scientist reports that the University of Reading has made a robot using neuron’s from a rat brain. The robot’s biological brain is made up of cultured neurons which are placed onto a multi electrode array (MEA). The MEA is a dish w...
Pentagon’s Unmanned Spokesdrone Completes First Press Conference Mission
I love the onion. Rarely topical to robots, but they hit now and again…
David Byrne Bot
We’ve always had our suspicions about David Byrne, but it just makes us love him more. David Byrne has teamed up with our pals Hanson Robotics to make Julio, a singing head and shoulders bot. Julio is haunting, yet oddly compelling. David ...
The Most Exciting Baby Shower This Year
Make sure to read the bottom part too! Hallie’s Baby Shower Celebrant: Hallie McConlogue Baby: Pumpkin unit 1 Event Date: 2008-08-16Trailer Trash /punk/hippy themed baby shower at the encounter Studio. Come as you are or in theme. Time:2pm -...
Well Crafted Zombie Alert
I got this today. San Francisco is so [insert modifier here] Subject: Zombie Migration Alert: This Saturday, August 16th Zombie Alert: This Saturday Friends and countrymen, it is with a heavy heart that I report on the state of Zombie Activity in ...
Magical Bridge Youtube Copout
It’s lazytimes here at the Robunker, so for your eddification I would present to you a really cool magical interactive stepping stone bridge: This piece is by Michael Cross and it is a brilliant illustration of how art can be used to mess w...
“Broken” robots video lyrics
For those who were interested in the lyrics to the previous German song “Kaputt”. Full lyrics after the jump Dein Vater ist kaputt Your father is broken aber du bist es nicht but you are not Zerbeult und verbogen...
