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Penguin’s Lab
A showcase/documentary of Penguin’s projects & experiments
All kinds of fun stuff like high voltage experiments, peltier coolers, magnetism and high speed photography.
via Make: Fun with ignition coils

We had a power outage @ RIT yesterday.  RG&E somehow messed up and 22 buildings on campus went dark, then lit up, then went dark again.
Fortunately we have a 2 hour UPS for the servers, and the generator kicked in ASAP and kept the network gear alive so aside from being pitch black, we stayed [...]

MAKE: Blog: Trossen Robotics contest - Phoenix FTW
Phoenix is a six legged walking robot. Wait, we know some of you out there may be thinking that hexapod robots are old hat. Well, you’re wrong. So very wrong. Wait until you see it move.

When it moves, it is so smooth and lifelike, it is definitely creepy.  [...]

Black Guy Asks Nation For Change | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source
CHICAGO—According to witnesses, a loud black man approached a crowd of some 4,000 strangers in downtown Chicago Tuesday and made repeated demands for change.
“The time for change is now,” said the black guy, yelling at everyone within earshot for 20 straight minutes, [...]

SFist: Photo du Jour 82

“END WAP”
via We Shall Overcome Shoddy Mobile Protocols - Boing Boing Gadgets
Its probably supposed to say “End WAR” but they ran out of material, and besides, WAP sucks.

Great Wireless Auction: Verizon, Not Google Is The Big Wireless Spectrum Winner
Choke back the tears, kids—Verizon, not Google won the majority of the wireless spectrum actioned off by the FCC.
Verizon, not Google is big winner in spectrum auction - East Bay Business Times:
On Thursday the agency said six big licenses went to Verizon — which [...]

YouTube - Boston Dynamics Big Dog (new video March 2008)
Boston Dynamics just released a new video of the Big Dog on ice and snow, and also demoing its walking gait.
It looks and acts like a living creature that I feel bad for it when it slips on the ice, as it scrambles to regain its [...]

This is Why They Wanted Hillary Clinton’s White House Schedule? - Towleroad, More gay news for more gay men
The National Archives released 11,000 pages of scheduling documents covering 2900 days of Hillary Clinton’s time as first lady.
So on the fifth anniversary of the war in Iraq, ABC News used those documents to post a “stained [...]

Free water ice for the first day of spring - Slashfood
For those of you not in the know … water ice is a half sorbet/half shaved ice concoction that is infused with fruit flavors
Rita’s is giving away free Italian Ice in celebration of the first day of spring.  I haven’t had Rita’s in a while, [...]

Arthur C. Clarke, Premier Science Fiction Writer, Dies at 90 - New York Times
Arthur C. Clarke, a writer whose seamless blend of scientific expertise and poetic imagination helped usher in the space age, died early Wednesday in Colombo, Sri Lanka, where he had lived since 1956. He was 90.
See also Arthur C. Clarke - Wikipedia, [...]

Today in class, 20 minutes before the break:
Kid in the front of the classroom gets up and leaves.
Just now:
Kid comes back in, munching on peanuts in a bag.  Walking, smiling, and eating his damn peanuts.  WTF?!  When did it become acceptable to just leave in the middle of class to go get a snack?  Sure, [...]

Other cities dye-ing to know what turns Chicago river green - Online Exclusives
Dyeing the Chicago River Irish green has been a tradition for more than 40 years and at least 50 cities want to know how Chicago volunteers perform the miraculous transformation every year.
Bill King, the administrator of Chicago’s St. Patrick’s Day committee, said that [...]

Yesterday was my birthday.
It wasn’t the best birthday I have ever had, but my sister and friends made sure it wasn’t one of the worst.  There were some people at the party that made it a bad party, but they left and I felt so much better.  Its hard having someone that hates you at [...]

Fritalian (Dunkin’ Donuts commercial)
I love this commercial.  It has been stuck in my head since last night, and I keep singing it.

Most excellent Spitzer-related media gaffe: CNN - Boing Boing
CNN apologized today for getting on-air analysis of Gov. Spitzer’s legal options from a former U.S. Attorney who resigned after being accused of biting a stripper.
I think that if anything, he would be the perfect person to ask about the legal options a person like Spitzer has.  [...]