Building a Balancing Scooter – apparently not hard (of course, that’s coming from a who works on walking robots for a living)
See also: SMU nBot, Ted Larson’s Balancing Robot
Got back from Cinema Electronica + afterparty (great set by Amon Tobin). I voted for We Want Your Soul (dir by happy) as the best of the bunch, although a couple of the others were also quite good.
Roman Coppola’s Funky Squaredance had a few great moments (the blinking on the up/downbeat is brilliant) but overall didn’t quite capture my imagination.
Hmm, sorta sorry that I missed the Videos That Rock! – a bunch of those I know are great.
I just discovered videos.antville.org, a blog which aggregates/tracks links to cool vidoes.
Soon on DVD: Director’s Label
Random thought: mapping out each blogger’s ‘sphere of interest’ by what they link to; you could make a topic-map out of that w/ some visualization tool if those were categorized, being able to see overlap and also what sites to read to get a variety of sources.
Insane: The Borg Megacube – The Complete Star Trek: Next Generation Seasons 1 – 7; list price: £449.99 (at 176 episodes that’s about $4.25/ep)
20th Anniversary of RMS’s Original GNU Post. h2odragon sums it up:
All HAIL RMS! Agree with him or not, his efforts have made your life better.
- Recomendo – Kevin Kelly recommends cool stuff (books, tools, software, videos, maps, gadgets, hardware, websites, or gear that are extraordinarily handy or useful for individual and small groups)
- Virtual Travelog – John Harris’ weblog. Writes a wide range of snippets centered around design/tech/culture
- Orange Cone – some nice thoughts on tech/social effects
Bionic Office – Joel Splosky talks about designing spaces for maximizing programmer productivity – I know that I could be at least 5x more productive in a better environment.
Syncato is quite interesting, and in many ways reflects some of my thoughts on using and re-using XML fragments.
- Questions: (how) does Syncato take XML (tree-based) and allow graph-like representation
- Sam Ruby’s Xpath enabled Query, expanding on javaslash’s xpath and blojsom querying
He walked the line that Bush does not – comparing and contrasting Johnny Cash’s Christianity vs Dubya’s.
Suzanne Fields wants us to think that George W. Bush is just like Johnny Cash, but the difference between the two is as great as the difference between pride and humility, between white and black.