The recently released Survival Research Labs “Ten Years of Robotic Mayhem” DVD was reviewed in Bright Lights Film Journal. You can pick up a copy for $20 + $7 shipping at Music Video Distributors. I previously posted pictures and video from an SRL show in Berkeley last year. And congrats to Mark and Amy on… Read More »
Although I did make it to the Fire Arts Festival Friday night, I ended up being at work so late that I didn’t have time to go home and get my camera. I didn’t even have time to eat dinner. So, unfortunately, all I can show off are some poor quality photos taken with the… Read More »
I saw quite a few cool things today at the eBIG FutureTech and Gadget Show. My friend Ed from TeleVoce was there showing off a prototype of the TeleVoce Duetto. The Duetto is a special cordless phone that can take both VoIP calls through a connected computer and regular PSTN calls. One cool feature of… Read More »
I highly recommend The Next Fifty Years: Science in the First Half of the Twenty-First Century, especially to anyone in high school or college who is interested in or is already majoring in science or engineering and is looking for an area to specialize in which will experience rapid growth over the next fifty years.… Read More »
A lobster-shaped coffin, ants eating sugar skulls, and a devil getting his teeth removed by skeletons in the Global Elegies: Art and Ofrendas for the Dead exhibit at the Oakland Museum.
I have to say that South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami was my least favorite book by him so far. However, I have pretty high standards for him, as I rank several of his other books among my all time favorites. It was a relatively light, quick read, which was… Read More »
I caught “If I Should Fall from Grace: The Shane MacGowan Story” at the Roxie tonight. If you’re a fan of The Pogues, music documentaries, drunk Irishmen, and/or bad teeth, I can highly recommend this movie to you. If there are more dental cases like Shane back home in Ireland, then I also urge you… Read More »
Review and photos from Digital Mix, a benefit for the EFF.
I purchased Fever Pitch on DVD for my wife for Xmas and we watched it this past weekend. Fever Pitch was originally released in the UK in 1996 or 97, but has been available in the States only for a few years. Many of the people who reviewed the movie on Amazon were offended that… Read More »
Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software by Steven Johnson This book received a lot of what I think was overly harsh criticism for not providing a significant amount of in depth technical coverage of the cross-functional area of emergence, i.e., cellular automata, self organization, complexity theory, etc. Obviously, one book on… Read More »