Ironwolf

IT is a thankless job.
Some dialog and/or images may be NSFW.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcQ7RkyBoBc

Via thewebsiteisdown.com

The thing that all these robots have in common is that they have a certain amount of autonomy— they are given goals and strategies for achieving those goals, but the particular movements they will make at a given time are not known in advance.
Dexter, from Anybots

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXwpIQMUikU

BigDog, from Boston Dynamics

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmVaLp8icoU

Asimo from Honda, programmed at Carnegie Mellon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dv0wJDwtuw

Robot […]

The Story of Stuff is a must-watch. Yes, even more important than the skateboarding dog.

Related post: What Would Jesus Buy?

In an age where a major portion of the economy is based in “digital goods,” that are transmitted through a system— the Internet— where they are of both necessity and choice endlessly and perfectly copied, and from which they can never be fully erased, why would anyone pay for these goods? After all, they’re basically […]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6IQ_FOCE6I

With shouts to Barney.

I now have a Twitter account, so if you want to tune into my ongoing answer to the question “What are you doing now?” then feel free to follow my tweets. The sidebar of my blog now also includes my latest tweets. I plan to keep them to two to three per day, and I’ll […]

In junior high and high school, I never engaged in phreaking or other black hat activities. But I certainly could have, because I spent a good deal of time with that crew as I pursued my own computer-related interests. And I still keep the original hacker ethos alive in a lot of my current adventures. […]

I’m not as badly off as some. I only throw away about 8-10 catalogs a week that arrive at my office. Over a year, that’s around 500 catalogs. Now scale that to the entire U.S.: Americans are printing, distributing, and throwing away (mostly unused) about 19 billion catalogs each year.
53 million trees per year.
3.6 million […]

I’ve seen tesla coils live at Burning Man numerous times— they’re incredibly loud.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi4kXgDBFhw

Quoth Doc Brown: “If we could somehow harness this lightning, channel it into the flux capacitor, it just might work…”
Introducing the Zeusaphone.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ff_AXVlo9U

A Zeusaphone Mario Bros. duet…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1O2jcfOylU

Dr. Zeus playing with the Zeusaphones. Or are they playing with him? Or does the water get him […]

Slate offers some good advice on talking with your kids about sex in the age of the Internet.