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Thursday, March 16, 2006

Ha ha ha America

A funny video - from China about America.

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pile of spidey

pile of spidey
Originally uploaded by epersonae.

Argh! My army has been defeated!

Trash compactor!?!??!

Lego tables @ SXSWi 2006
Originally uploaded by Julie Leung.

When I saw this I thought it was an interpretation of the trash compactor scene from Star Wars!

Look at all the x-wing canopies!

Look at the hideous beast ready to drag you under and drown you!

Jazz Stash Bedroom Shelf For Teenagers

Stash your jazz mags away in safety!

72 degrees Bedroom Shelf For Teenagers - Gizmodo

And, the coolest "car" in the world...

It can do 280mph on a "part throttle". I want. :)

Wednesday, March 15, 2006

Aging Japan builds robot to look after elderly

Aging Japan builds robot to look after elderly

Yeah, yeah, Japanese robots builds robot to carry bodies out of buildings and compost to power their robot minds... Arrrghhh!

Destroy!

Buy my products or I shall send my Army of Spidermen to destroy you!
via Flickr

The Specials Video Linkdump

Folk Archive Resource North East

His brother admits Jacko's 'thing for young children'

Music resources on the World Wide Web

Where will you be if you catch the last train to Clarksville?

The Specials Video Linkdump

Tuesday, March 14, 2006

How To Become A Power Ranger

Letterfu - Letter-writing without envelopes, cutting or glue

How to become a Power Ranger

How to peel a potato in one step

Some awesome tips

Japanese people show tricks and tips

Monday, March 13, 2006

The Autotelematic Spider Bot makes little girls scream

They're even in Sunnerlind!

The Autotelematic Spider Bot makes little girls scream

They make me scream!

Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggghhh!

Did Somebody Say Robots?

Cartoony papercraft robots

The Robots. Robot Toys Of The 1980's and 1990's.

Top Ten Movie Robots of All Time

Robot Mania

How to survive a robot attack.

The 50 Greatest Robots Ever

Seriously.

I mean, I couldn't make this up.

Here's a Shotgun-wielding helicopter. It can fly on it's own.

We're all going to die.

Can't hide in the trees, can't run away. Shit they'll be in the tunnels next. Argh!

Tree-Climbing Robot - Gizmodo

Argh! More robots!

This time, they can climb trees to kill us!

Run away from the hideous Tree-Climbing Robot before it's too late!

Saturday, March 11, 2006

Millenium Bridge Closing Video

Here is a video that I shot with my camera, so excuse the quality, and uploaded to Google Video.
It was my first attempt to upload videos to Google Video and it was all rather easy as you would expect as Google seem to be good at letting HTML idiots like me rule the web! You do have to download and install a tiny program to upload the videos from then on it's very easy. They also seem to accept most file types before they convert it to Flash. My only moan was that I had to wait 2-3 days for them to "verify" my video.

Anyhoo on with the video...

You can download a QT video of it from here if you so wish.

Stuff

I've fixed the sidebar the only way that I know how to and it is looking a little better but I would expect someone who knows what they are doing to go in and tidy it up as my efforts were rather haphazard. There still seems to be a problem with the post boxes in that they don't work properly if the post is too big. I've no chance of being able to fix that myself so either I'm waiting on someone else to fix that or just don't do any long posts.

I've also renamed an empty box in the sidebar with our other sites in so please let me know if I've missed you out and I will add it the next time I go there. I've also renamed one of the boxes to stuff which, for now, only includes a link to the icon generator so you can add Technorati icons to your posts.
If you can think of anything else that should be added please let me know.

One final thing for now. We are looking for new contributors to this site so if anyone wants to post here go ahead and email me.

You will find my email address at my place Look At This...

Robot videos

BigDog @ bostondynamics.com (file under geek).

"The Most Advanced Quadruped Robot on Earth"

"BigDog is the alpha male of the Boston Dynamics family of robots. It is a quadruped robot that walks, runs, and climbs on rough terrain and carries heavy loads. BigDog is powered by a gasoline engine that drives a hydraulic actuation system. BigDog is the size of a large dog or small mule, measuring 1 meter long, 0.7 meters tall and 75 kg weight".

The video on this page is incredible - or there's a copy of it here (11.5MB) if you know how to download from rapidshare.

There's 4 of them at the robtics department at Boston Dynamics.