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Booze Slinging Bots Serve Fun at Roboexotica USA
via The Underwire by (author unknown) on May 11, 2008
Shared by SharonG robots! beer! AWESOME!SAN FRANCISCO, California -- Outfitted in shiny, red digs, passing out drinks and cracking jokes in rapid-fire succession, Chassis is the type of guest any host would want to liven up a party. The only catch? Chassis is a robot. With the help of a wireless remote controller and mic set-up, the boxy bot was the star of Roboexotica USA, held Saturday at art...
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The Popcorn Cult
via The Publics by thepublics on May 08, 2008
Founded in 1997, The Alamo Drafthouse Cinema is a specialty cinema located in Austin, Texas that serves ice-cold beer and shows white-hot “movie-movies”. The Alamo is distinguished by its cult-friendly programming, which includes retrospectives like “Burt-A-Thon” (a night of popular Burt Reynolds movies) numerous signature events and frequent guest appearance from the likes of Quentin...
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Robots serve up fiery cocktails in San Francisco
via Geek Gestalt by Daniel Terdiman on May 10, 2008
During a Friday night preview of the Roboexotica event in San Francisco, which will take place on Saturday, Simone Davalos' cocktail robot 'El Espanol Baracho' applies its special elixir to a Spanish Coffee. Roboexotica, which has been taking place for a decade in Vienna, Austria, and which is visiting San ...
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What People Say When They Tweet
via ReadWriteWeb by Josh Catone on May 09, 2008
... Twitter status update messages (tweets) collected from the public time line over a seven day period running from April 27 - May 3. We saw approximately 200,000 active users (users that sent at least one message) during that period, of which 60% tweeted in English. Japanese was the second most popular language on Twitter with about 9% of the tweets that we gathered.Most strikingly, we found t...
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Twitter Starts Blacklisting Spammers
via TechCrunch by Erick Schonfeld on May 07, 2008
You know you’ve made it as a communications medium when you start attracting spammers. On Twitter, the problem is getting bad enough that the service is starting to blacklist people who spam other members. There is already an unofficial site called The Twitter Blacklist that lists 329 known spammers on the service (see screen shot below). That has nothing to do with Twitter officially and is...
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What the inside of a container data center looks like
via Royal Pingdom by royal on May 09, 2008
There has been a lot of talk about container data centers lately (sometimes also called modular data centers). Most of the time we are only presented with an image of a branded shipping container, but let’s face it, all the interesting stuff is on the inside!So, since we were curious, we here at Pingdom dug through various product pages and presentations to find pictures of the insides of...
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Tips For Dealing With Information Overload
via Google Blogoscoped by Philipp Lenssen on May 09, 2008
I sent a couple of people the following question: “What are your top tips for dealing with information overflow?” Here are some of their answers (with formatting partly adjusted, omissions within quotes indicated with dots). Please add your own tips and approaches in the comments.Niniane Wang, Google: «I like the time-honored tradition of responding to emails or archiving them as soon as I...
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Core77 Video Drive-by: Maker Faire: Long Now
via core77.com's design blog by (author unknown) on May 09, 2008
... weekend's Maker Faire, has addressed this challenge in a clever and rather beautiful way: given the weight and slowness of the clock they want to build, they're replacing ball bearings with a mesmerizing series of flexors that "pass" the clock mechanism along, rather than rolling. Lovely video, thoughtful treatment of a really abstract concept, and the website is worth a check too....
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Getting Started in Video: Audio Options
via I Make Things by pettisb@yahoo.com (Bre Pettis) on May 09, 2008
So you’ve got your camera and you’re shooting some special footage. How can you make it sound good?MP4 | Youtube | Blip.tv | Subscribe in iTunesIf you keep your subject within arm’s length, you can use the onboard (built in) mic to get passable audio. If you’re recording to tape, you’ll get some tape sound, but it’s likely that it will be usable audio. Photograpy cameras in movie...
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A Night With Bukowski
via ScabVendor by Alessandra on May 08, 2008
I decided to post this week’s weekly blurb with a little bit of history. Underneath the blurb you will see an excerpt from Jonathan’s other memoir Scabvendor, which might give a little insight on their relationship…“Jonathan Shaw is a fucked-off hunk of shit. A fish asshole cunt-sucker!”- Charles BukowskiA NIGHT WITH BUKOWSKIThe root problems of the writer are personality problems.-...
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