That’s a good dog
Thursday, March 20th, 2008Totally awesome video of a big walking "dog" robot with some serious balance and recovery abilities; the Boston Dynamics "Big Dog". UPDATE: Here's the Big Dog home page.
Archive for the ‘science’ Category
Totally awesome video of a big walking "dog" robot with some serious balance and recovery abilities; the Boston Dynamics "Big Dog". UPDATE: Here's the Big Dog home page.
Synaesthesia Machine
Saturday, January 5th, 2008This is why I read io9 -- to keep up on cool and cheesy sci-fi-ish stuff like this: A Fully-Functioning Synaesthesia Machine that translates visual stimuli into tactile sensations.
What the Discovery Institute guys really want to say
Friday, December 28th, 2007You know it's what they're thinking. (South Park Darwin Evolution -- Thanks, Bob.)
Early sex correlates with delinquency. Duh.
Thursday, March 1st, 2007Turns out Early sex correlates with delinquency. Wouldn't you have been a little surprised if it didn't? Of course, this spurs the obvious kinds of causation/correlation confusions from the researchers like "those who start having sex too young may not be prepared to deal with the potential emotional, ...
A neat visual thingy
Tuesday, February 27th, 2007One of my favorite visual effects; mostly just as a test. It's the Adelson checkerboard; same actual surface gray, but very different perceived lightness (until the squares get connected).
Oz and Charlie
Monday, February 12th, 2007When the question was asked "Does anyone know what day today is?" in Oz's class today, what did Oz blurt out? "It's Darwin Day!"
Yeah! Screw Pluto!
Thursday, August 24th, 2006Scientists decide Pluto’s no longer a planet. What's kind of a sad comment on me is that when I first read this, I said "Yeah!". Because that's what I was rooting for.
Bush is definitely #1
Thursday, July 20th, 2006Bush Vetoes Stem Cell Bill. Just another reminder of all the ways Bush manages to be the worst president ever. Because pandering to the Godidiots and protecting the womb boogers of Amerikkka are two of his most important goals. Right after stealing elections, making the mideast safe ...
Masturbation cures cancer!
Monday, May 29th, 2006OK, maybe not "cures", but frequent masturbation for men apparently contributes to avoiding prostate cancer: "Masturbating may protect against prostate cancer". How could this have slipped by me when it first came out? Like we needed any other reasons to be in favor of it. Hey, wait: Porn causes ...