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Here some pics of Evolution robots:

http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/2003/0402/robo07.jpg

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/washtech/images/demo2002_robot_190w.jpg

With a claw:

http://www.xeni.net/images/boingboing/robot_butler.jpg

The note about revenues compared to one Costco store is pretty sad. It makes me wonder where any of the other "blogger" "elite" sites stock up. I always deeply suspected that most of the "web 2.0" and "blogger" fad was just a giant San Francisco circle jerk by people who think far too highly of themselves.

Hmm, the All-seeing eye logo, and the invocation IAO, all wrapped up in one juicy package.

I'll say this much for our rulers at the Information Awareness Office, they do have a sense of humor.

Either that, or Robert Anton Wilson really is running the show, and we're all just characters in one of his novels.

Fnord.

for a solution to your problem or any problem involving fellatio, call on the one you know & trust: venture capital whores who pretend to care about freedom.

Also, Xena isn't hot, not one bit. http://www.xeni.net/images/headshots/101-0134_IMG. jpg

BARF!

I caught Xeni Jardin of BoingBoing/NPR/Wired doing the same thing on her own article. But sometimes vanity is obvious; take a look at her webpage.

More interestingly, Hertz is a proponent of blanket licenses:

Peer to peer file sharing is really just interactive radio consumers get to listen to exactly what they want when they want it. This demand is not addressed by the record industry. In fact, it cant be offered legally at any price. And as I think Ive illustrated, technology and reality will insure that supply finds its way to meet that demand...

and

My partner Fred and I therefor support compulsory blanket licensing. The same way restaurants, radio stations and elevators pay for background music, a tariff on communications technology could permit non-commercial file sharing to flourish, and copyright owners to benefit financially. File sharing is NOT piracy. Piracy is big fat guys manufacturing fake CDs in Mexico and selling them at swap meets. File sharing is tens of millions of music fans swapping copies of things they wouldnt otherwise buy. An ASCAP or BMI like pool of money allocated in an equitable way amongst copyright owners is the only solution that could be of benefit to creators, consumers and copyright owners. Compulsory blanket licensing for non-commercial file sharing is the equivalent of loosening a tourniquet tied around the entertainment industrys neck.
- ACLU Bill of Rights Dinner - Thursday, December 12, 2002

My favorite blog at the moment has to be boingboing.net

It's a collaborative blog from the likes of:

- Cory Doctorow, one of the best voices in contemporary SF, and a co-founder (iirc) of the EFF.

- Xeni Jardin, tech culture journalist and regular contributer to Wired and NPR. (oh, and not that it matters, but she's spectacularly cute)

- Mark Frauenfelder, writer and illustrator.

- David Pescovitz, well-known science and tech writer.

- John Battelle, web search pundit. ...they're all smart, funny and cool. If my best friends had time to get together and make a blog, it would look like this.

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I'd like to take this moment to publically thank, congratulate, and otherwise embarass my illustrious former roommate, David Weekly. Alot of people talk about problems, like how alot of people talk about "Gee, how tragic is Zero Tolerance for all these kids, oh look, another one just got expelled for learning the word 'Knife'!"

Most people don't do anything. David Weekly did.

He stepped up, fought back against Diebold, and brought justice -- not just for himself (he's the founder of the California Community Colocation Project, so the ISP takedown notices directly affected him), not just for the four college kids attacked by Diebold, but for all of us here and for everybody with a stake in the perceived integrity of the American vote.

That's some damn fine work, David. Thanks! And thanks to everyone at EFF and OPG who fought this battle with him too!

Yours Truly,

Dan Kaminsky
DoxPara Research
http://www.doxpara.com