swimming with robots — the AQUATablet
AQUATablet is a robot interaction device designed to be operated by a diver tethered to, or in visual communication with, an underwater robot. First described in the paper Swimming with Robots: Human Robot Communication at Depth, by Bart Verzijlenberg and Michael Jenkin of York University.
(via Elizabeth Perry)
T. rex steak
tastes like chicken:
Based on the evolutionary tree, we might speculate that T. rex tasted more like poultry than, say, beef or pork.
Baby’s First Memories
I like it that the Tom Sale known as Pinky Diablo invited me to play Pinky Diablo’s Luddite Facebook App Daily Game. All’s he asked me to do was to list my first ten memories. So I just listed what I thought of as fast as I could.
1. The Greek waiter at The Torch of Acropolis (Davis Avenue, Dallas, Texas) gave me a lump of sugar. I sucked it as I tumbled into bed.
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I do bad things all the time and tell of them.
I do good things a whole lot more and keep them secret.
Helps me realize that what is unseen is more important, and hopefully to remember that in my dealings with other people.
But because everything and everyone is so far from one another, our words count more now, and so I seem to others to be a bad person. By my own recollection. Which I think is funny. Amusing myself in these ways hasn’t quite played out in the ways I thought it would.
Mad Men Season Finale
I’m giving you a week, then I’m going to start talking.
License Plate
Do you think she complains a lot, or does she make sex-ed class very interesting?
OFFER: Baby Bouncy Seat
Posted to Dubuque Freecycle group Sun Oct 17, 2010 12:02 pm (PDT)
This has been used for at least 4 children, but it’s still in good shape. (It’s blue/green with a bear on it, as well as a little toy bar that attaches.) However, the little motorized part that would vibrate and play music no longer works (I believe). I’m embarrassed to say that it has a little spit up “yuck” on it from the last time my son used it (It’s not filthy though!), but I just don’t have the time to clean it up. All you have to do is slip the cover off and throw it in the wash, and wipe down the rest. It’s great when your little one still can’t sit up and you need to take a shower!!
From a pet-free, smoke-free home.
Please reply with a phone number at which you can be reached. Thank you!!
Must be willing to drive to Dubuque.
For Michael Smith
Dear Clusterflock
Remind me again how to order on Amazon and credit Clusterflock. And tell me exactly. Pretty please.
He should quit while he’s ahead
Turf Dancing In the Rain
For Deron
from the moderated comments
WOW!!! HOW ARE THEY CHRISTIAN!? I’ve posted this a million times but here we go again. THEY NEVER MENTION JESUS CHRIST, ONE OF THE MOST FUNDAMENTAL BELIEFS ALL CHRISTIANS SHARE, EVANGELICAL OR NOT! Americans and there ignorance will never cease to amaze me. In order to be CHRISTian you have to believe in CHRIST!!!! DAMN MORONS!
breaking up is hard to do
The Campaign:
The Story:
Every year, Rivers Cuomo swears that he’s changed, and that their new album is the best thing that he’s done since “Pinkerton,” and what happens? Another pile of crap like “Beverly Hills” or “I’m Your Daddy.”
This is an abusive relationship, and it needs to stop now.
(via marginal revolution)
It Gets Better
Fort Worth City Councilman Joel Burns talks about the experiences of GLBT teens growing up in a culture of intimidation and bullying. This video was inspired by Dan Savage’s It Gets Better Project:
Billy Lucas was just 15 when he hanged himself in a barn on his grandmother’s property. He reportedly endured intense bullying at the hands of his classmates—classmates who called him a fag and told him to kill himself. His mother found his body…. I wish I could have talked to this kid for five minutes. I wish I could have told Billy that it gets better. I wish I could have told him that, however bad things were, however isolated and alone he was, it gets better.
the social network
Many of the most popular applications, or “apps,” on the social-networking site Facebook Inc. have been transmitting identifying information—in effect, providing access to people’s names and, in some cases, their friends’ names—to dozens of advertising and Internet tracking companies, a Wall Street Journal investigation has found.
Multikulti
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on the ‘failure’ of multiculturalism in Germany:
“We feel tied to Christian values. Those who don’t accept them don’t have a place here,” said the chancellor.
dear clusterflock
Is there a word for cringe-inducing sincerity or earnestness?
How do you not know what a flashmob is?
the internet’s bathroom wall
Superfreedraw is the largest bathroom wall ever. Just go there and leave a doodle wherever you like. No censorship, no registration. Pure user generated nonsense.
It’s like prom night all over
spam name
Mauricio Beard.
kitten riding a turtle
Is exactly what it is.
Dear clusterflock
Last night I dreamt of petty thieving and the redistribution of assets. These days, are you more of a rebel in mind or in action?
