RoboScience
RoboScience has created the RS-01 RoboDog – the world’s most powerful, most advanced and largest commercial legged robot. The RoboDog takes leading-edge technology out of the laboratories of the world’s major organisations and puts it in people’s living rooms.
George Carlin website
Webbified I’m always amazed and excited to find a web site of a real famous person. I found a link at BrainLog to the personal web site of George Carlin. Did you know he won his third Grammy this year? There is a ton of useful (and fun) information there, including a rant by the
require www in URL
It drives me nuts that you need to enter the www to get to the University of Florida Home Page. Just typing ufl.edu won’t get you there.
Music
I was very happy to see that Bruce Springsteen‘s Born to Run, Paul Simon‘s Graceland, and The Ramones I Wanna Be Sedated were among some of my favorites mentioned in NPR’s list of the 100 most important American musical works of the 20th century. [link via dollarshort.org]
Thongs Sales
The best two lines in this article – Undergarment Trend Gets New Cheeky Exposure – are: “Thong sales have unseated traditional women’s underwear as the fastest-growing lingerie niche,” and “In the same way push-up bras lifted the sagging lingerie business 10 years ago …” link via the obscure store and reading room
pecus blog
I like pecus. Nice css work. Very impressive.
DMCA
The First Amendment v. The Digital Millenium Copyright Act On January 20, 2000, United States District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan … issued a preliminary injunction … prohibiting the defendants from distributing computer code for reading encrypted DVDs. If code that can be directly compiled and executed may be suppressed under the DMCA, as Judge Kaplan
lust for beer
A strange thing happened on my way to the west coast. At some point along the way I seem to have misplaced my lust for beer. I’m not frantically searching for it or anything. Usually I barely even notice that it’s missing. But. I can’t help but wonder where it went.