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ilyah writes: "The ever-crafty Honda engineers have apparently created a robot that can accurately walk on two legs (i.e. just like humans). Take a look at The Honda Japan site -- a Japanese site that has some pictures and videos worth looking at (hint: videos are under linked marked "04"). It's pretty awesome watching that thing walk around." If I remember correctly, they've been working on this for quite some time - like 15 - 20 years, but this is apparently one of the breakthrough steps, pun intended.

As we all know, as the net ages, search engines seem to get worse. How many searches have you made that turned up spam, or crap from someone messing with META tags. How often do you accidentally land on a disguised porn site or retrieve 10 copies of the same off topic page after a query? Well at least there is no shortage of new engines to try. Check out Scour if you are looking for multimedia stuff. The page renders slowly but searching for 'penguins' got me lots of pretty pictures. And most of them were of penguins.