HRL – The Humanoid Robotics Laboratory – The Bar Bot – Content:
http://www.roboticslab.org/html/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=2

finally a useful robot.

Subtle submissions:
The Subtle Technologies Festival will take place May 26-May 29, 2005, in Toronto Canada. Symposium submissions are due January 15th, 2005. This year, in addition to the usual diverse program, there is a special session celebrating the “World Year in Physics”; artists and scientists who investigate physics in their work …

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sounds cool…

Candidate Kerry:
[See also comments here.] ~He’s ready, he’s willing, who knows if he’s able?…

not knowing that he is able…. is better than knowing that he is not, which is where my opinion lies on bush, not able to be president in any real sense and generally defers to the guidance of warmongers and profiteers.

The Personal Internet Communicator for Developing Economies:
50×15 is AMD’s initiative to enable affordable Internet access and computing capabilities for 50 percent of the world population by the year 2015. With world population estimated to reach 7.2 billion people in 2015, and current Internet penetration approximately 10 percent, there is tremendous potential for 50×15 on a global scale to bring billions of people into the digital age.
New technology approaches and platforms are needed to meet the unique requirements and economic limitations of high-growth and developing markets. AMD’s first step in bringing new technology to achieve the 50×15 vision is a new device product category called the Personal Internet Communicator (PIC). The (PIC) is a low-cost, consumer-friendly, managed device that will put technology into the hands of first-time technology users in high-growth markets around the world, such as India, Mexico, Brazil, Russia and China.

The Personal Internet Communicator (PIC) is an affordable consumer device designed to provide managed Internet access for people in global, high-growth markets to enhance communications, entertainment and education opportunities. The PIC is an empowering connecting device – a simple and accessible platform designed to work with existing telecom dial-up or broadband infrastructure – that delivers Internet capabilities such as e-mail, downloads, Web browsing and more.
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neat! this is just what the world needs.

Electoral geek supreme . Electoral-vote.com’s anonymous tallier…:Electoral geek supreme. Electoral-vote.com’s anonymous tallier outs himself as a pioneer of open-source operating systems. [Salon.com]

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off he goes.

Technology Threatens Colleges With Extinction, Ex-President Warns:

This was in my inbox this morning from techrhet from The Chronicle of Higher Education:

Educause 2004, held here last week, attracted more than 7,000 people from 43 different countries, scores of colleges, and hundreds of tech companies. At this meeting of the higher-education technology group, the tech talk is thick, the tech knowledge vast, and the tech obsessions are almost a religion for some. All of the attendees appeared to be fully human.

But some of the chief information officers here might have left the conference more worried than they were before attending. James J. Duderstadt, president emeritus of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, opened the conference not with a pep talk but with rather unsettling predictions. He said the future of colleges and universities was more than uncertain in the digital age — it might be downright threatened.

Permanent subscription-based link to the article.

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i wonder if it will.. i doubt it

Online Debate: A Case Study Combining Traditional Strategy and Online Technology – Shawn M. Love, Instructional Technology and Distance Learning:
Instructional Designers are constantly faced with new challenges. In a volatile technological environment, online resources seem to lead instructional designers into unknown territory. Often, instructors will attempt to merge online media and instructi

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also interesting.

Clark Aldrich’s Six Criteria of an Educational Simulation – Learning Circuits:
The more I build, evaluate, and discuss educational simulations, the more I realize we need to establish some better terms. Specifically, there are six criteria that are emerging as critical, and ultimately not just to simulations but all educational e

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this is pretty interesting…..

Clark Aldrich’s Six Criteria of an Educational Simulation – Learning Circuits:
The more I build, evaluate, and discuss educational simulations, the more I realize we need to establish some better terms. Specifically, there are six criteria that are emerging as critical, and ultimately not just to simulations but all educational e

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this is pretty interesting…..

:: Yonkis.com :: :
http://www.yonkis.com/mediaflash/eeuu.htm

funniest one yet