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"Cockroach Controlled Mobile Robot" is an experimental robotic system that translates the bodily movements of a living, organic insect into the physical locomotion of a three-wheeled robot. Distance sensors at the front of the robot also provide navigation feedback to the cockroach, striving to create a pseudo-intelligent system with the cockroach as the CPU.

What you say is all true, but when you start putting a webserver in a fly, it's kind of a stretch.

Yeah, I was sitting around one day wondering what to do with my "implant electronics inside a dead fly" skillset...

The lucky few who survived the bubble might still remember a webserver in a fly... back in 2001.

We even had links to web servers running on PIC chips, which makes an iPhone look like a ridiculously oversized muscle car by comparison.

Or a fly.

Already been done.. :)

http://www.conceptlab.com/control/

Hmmm, snips of their antennae and uses the stubs to lead them around? That sounds familiar...

Remote controlled roaches

Although I think that roaches will eventually rise up and rebel using their roach controlled robots.

Actually, it made me think of the cockroach controlled robot.

I found his rationale compelling
Rationale and Goals of this project (a little over half way down the page)

frome the same page, CV (bottom of page, Technical Skills) "...Knowledge of networking, including Unix system administration, routers, DNS servers, mail servers, FTP servers, Linux. Insect schizoanalysis...."

StumbleUpon is great because you don't have to know or care where you're going. Just click 'Stumble!' and be somewhere else.
True that the stumbles can be dumb and do things like loop back on themselves, but I find that most of the Stumbles are not top domain. In fact, the problem I see is just the opposite. People will load up one picture and hit 'I like it!' or get halfway through something before thumbing up. So sometimes you find yourself driving to work at a slow speed.
The point of StumbleUpon is that when you've done checked your email, stocks, and motherboard prices, and you're sitting there going, "Now what?" (Yeah, yeah, some people never sit there and say, "Now, what?"), you can kill some time with the Stumbling, or the so-called "blogging," although the message size limit is a little skinny.
Something like del.icio.us, which I've never tried, so I'm talking out my sphincter, here, is more for when you have an idea what you want. Stumble is for when you just want something.
Note that the use of StumbleUpon may delay the discovery of iambored.com, but it is in there.

I'm quite sure that's smaller, but obviously this product has a more general use.

Make the dead frogs legs twitch

Ok then?

Nothing would make me happier than getting all farty and bloated on a frothy latte while blowing my secretary/programmer salary 1:1.

Hell, I could check out all the latest innovations in penis enlargement technology, maybe peruse a little man-on-goat-on-sister incest reading, settle in on a favorite literary magazine... is it worth $10 an hour?

You bet your sweet ass it is, just as long as I can afford another 10-spot to pay my gimp to read it to me.

Pffft, too big. I want a computer so small that it fits on a fly.

Garnet Hertz is a lecturer at the University of Regina Department of Media Production & Studies, and is artist-in-residence at Soil Digital Media Suite, Regina, Canada. Hertz's current work involves the development of embedded webservers on miniature pill-sized microprocessors, and analysis of these objects in the framework of physical computing and the history of human-created semi-living beings: the golem, robot, cyborg, genetically modified organisms and the Romantic-Era experiments of Luigi Galvani. These computers - implanted into the preserved bodies of animal specimens - produce physically reactive cybernetic beings caught in a state of attempted re-animation.

... Wouldn't you rather a nice, cold shower?

Ahh, fun with Ask Jeeves.

-Peter

I wonder how much the artist behind The Simulator got paid...

http://www.conceptlab.com/fly/

And yes, there is a video (2.2meg QT) and extended wiring diagrams

Hey - I went to UofS too!

University of Saskatchewan's fine art program basically sucked. The best thing - and stupidest thing - that I did in the art program there was The Simulator, which was actually my graduating exhibition... the crowning glory of my art career.

Hey there everybody - I built "The Simulator" - the "cold shower" easter egg at Ask Jeeves. I'll prove it by changing the diary to point to a different email.

Signatures are available for a small fee. My company is going public, and I'm using my proprietary burger-flipping code as the basis of an E-Commerce engine.