Robots and the Rest of Us

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Jeff's Robots- toy robots & tons of
robotics links!

Jeff's Robots- toy robots & tons of
robotics links! 01/26/2004 10:19 AM
งจงจ€ŒจงŠ€Œ‡ง ˆ …„‡งŠŠ จ‡ ƒ„ ˆจงช .. An uber-nerd's robot collection .. Jeff's Robots .. robots .. +

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Research And Markets: Will Personal
Robots Become The Norm? Take A Look At
The Market For Personal Robots In Japan

Research And Markets: Will Personal
Robots Become The Norm? Take A Look At
The Market For Personal Robots In Japan 12/17/2004 06:40 PM
Research and Markets has announced the addition of Next-Generation Personal Robot Market 2004 to their offering. [PRWEB Oct 18, 2004]

XML for the rest of us

XML for the rest of us 12/22/2003 12:34 PM

"The relational database is designed to serve up rows and columns," said BEA's Adam Bosworth in his keynote talk. "But our model of the world is documents. It's 'Tell me everything I want to know about this person or this clinical trial.' And those things are not flat, they're complex. Now we have the way to get not only the hospital records and prescriptions but also the doctor's write-ups."

The doctors and bankers will get that, just as the highway patrolmen already do. XML documents, flowing through XML plumbing, can now deliver very real and tangible benefits. For the publishing geeks who started it all, it's a moment to savor. [Full story at InfoWorld.com]

By the way, Adam Bosworth said a great many other interesting things in his XML 2003 talk. For those of you not inclined to watch this QuickTime clip -- and in particular for the search crawlers -- I would like to enter the following quote into the public record. ...

you need your rest i can't say what's
best

you need your rest i can't say what's
best 03/19/2005 02:45 AM
I taped a bunch of segments for an awesome VH-1 show today. I won't name it, because I don't know...

rest of it

rest of it 12/26/2004 06:49 PM

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The Rest, As They Said, Was History

The Rest, As They Said, Was History 09/15/2004 09:47 PM
A Microsoft manager has recounted what he has told his MSN Music developers. "Apple set the bar very high. We're trying to match that. We told our developers, 'Look at how Apple does it.'"
Now, when did we hear this before? (Hint: Apple sued because someone copied too closely.)

Rest Awhile

Rest Awhile 02/01/2005 10:07 PM
Yeah, the rumors are true. After three years of this site, I've decided to give it a rest. Being pigeonholed...

A Festivus for the Rest of Us!

A Festivus for the Rest of Us! 12/24/2003 05:27 AM
A Festivus for the Rest of Us! .. Festivus .. Oh

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The rest is noise

The rest is noise 07/05/2004 10:45 PM
The Rest is Noise : New Yorker music critic Alex Ross' blog.
Also: A C Douglas. Jessica Duchen. Greg Sandow. Michael Brooke. The Rambler.

No Rest for Nokia

No Rest for Nokia 04/16/2004 12:52 PM
The Finnish phone maker looks like a nail in a world full of hammers.

Gaming for the rest of us

Gaming for the rest of us 12/19/2004 03:46 PM

What happens when a good developer goes bad and closes up shop? Game.Ars has a look at what supposedly happened to an insider at Interplay.

After several months, money arrived via a bank-to-bank transfer, i.e. direct deposit, but it was far less than my normal paycheck. I tried to reach somebody, anybody to explain this. Calls and emails to executives went unanswered.

Unfortunately, that happens all too often.

In addition, Game.Ars looks at the phenomenon of banned games — blood and gore is ok, but uncovered female breasts are not. And of course, there's all the week's gaming news. Read on.

IPass for the Rest of Us

IPass for the Rest of Us 12/23/2003 02:18 PM
While iPass is a great option for heavy travelers whose companies have deals with iPass, individual travelers must look elsewhere for a Wi-Fi subscription that includes many hotspots: Global Broadband Internet Access members may offer a good option. Hotspot operators around the world are part of the group and as such offer roaming onto their networks. Most of the operators are in Europe, including The Cloud in the U.K. and a handful of operators in the Netherlands, but Surf and Sip is also part of the group. Currently there are 1,900 hotspots in the network but that number should grow to 2,500 by the end of January....

"Read The Rest?"

"Read The Rest?" 04/12/2004 10:00 PM

The rest is history

The rest is history 04/12/2004 12:47 PM

Learning to Rest

Learning to Rest 12/08/2003 08:08 AM

Adam Bosworth: I admit to not being a REST expert and the people commenting, Mike Dierkin and Mark Baker in particular, certainly are. They tell me I'm all wet about the REST issues. I'll dig into it. But I admit, I don't get it. I need to be educated.

I personally think that the place to start is to first tease apart the "HTTP is the one true protocol" from the "REST is the one true architecture", and then initially focus on the latter.  Once done, you may come back to believe in one or both of these, but they can be addressed independently.

To draw an analogy, Java 1.0 did not have a component model.  A convention of getters and setters methods corresponding to a property emerged.  Getters always have zero parameters, setters typically have one.

On the web, there is an analogous component model.  Resources have a GET and POST method (as well as a few others).  This is not one per property, but one per resource (object).  This encourages a coarse grained approach to integration - something that scales better than fine grained access.

Nothing in REST requires or precludes an equivalent to WSDL.  However, nothing in WSDL today models the interaction that is typical of WSDL itself: "at this address is a document of a given type.  If you GET it, you will find a strongly typed description of another resource (endpoint)".

Anybody with experience in database design will tell you that it makes sense to focus a lot of energy on optimizing reads.  The web does this well.

Other principles that apply: all persistent resources have identifiers.  No implicit state.

I have further thoughts posted at REST+SOAP.  I'd also point to The Eight Fallacies of Distributed Computing, but alas, it has gone 404.  (The concept of 404 itself is an important implication of a REST design).

The Beauty of REST

The Beauty of REST 04/09/2004 04:09 PM
Through his LibraryLookup project, Jon Udell finds that you don't need to understand what REST is in order to benefit from its use in a system.

iTunes for the rest of us

iTunes for the rest of us 12/16/2003 06:33 PM
Apple must open the iTunes Music Store internationally, or risk losing the market share it has gained in the digital music market it created. As more and more competitors -- some of them very recognizable and powerful names -- enter the market supporting Microsoft's Windows Media file format, Apple will have a hard time convincing consumers that the iPod, which doesn't support the Windows Media format, is worth buying. Because Apple already has the dominant market share in the U.S.,...

iTunes For The Rest Of Us

iTunes For The Rest Of Us 12/16/2003 11:05 PM
Apple must open the iTunes Music Store internationally, or risk losing the market share it has gained in the digital music market it created. By Amy Percival (SpyMac via MyAppleMenu)

Ask MacSlash: DNS For The Rest Of Us

Ask MacSlash: DNS For The Rest Of Us 03/22/2005 04:45 PM

REST vs SOAP

REST vs SOAP 03/11/2003 11:53 AM
My POW, FWIW:

The sweet spot is GET and POST of XML Infomation Sets. REST's content independence and SOAP's transport independence are simultaneously both key strengths and weaknesses of each approach. Both contain speculative features that have not been widely adopted (e.g., DELETE? Content-Negotiation?). The most underrated feature of SOAP is asynchronous messaging.

REST + SOAP is a powerful combination.

ReST vs RPC Redux

ReST vs RPC Redux 03/11/2003 11:53 AM

It looks like SOAP is destined to continue to be maligned and misunderstood.

Dave Winer is upset because not everybody limits themselves to his narrow RPC profile of SOAP usage.  Non-RPC usage of SOAP isn't new - it was always in the spec.  And things that fit Dave's narrow profile continue to interop.

Mark Baker is upset because SOAP permits usages which are not, in his and many people's opinion, well architected.  Usages such as RPC.  While many of Mark's arguments resonate with me, he tends to throw the baby out with the bathwater.  He might as well say that Python is not a good language for building REST systems because it can also be used for RPC.

Meanwhile, where Mark throws up his hands, others are making progress.

Rest Assured

Rest Assured 06/15/2002 12:22 AM
WebTechniques Jun 15 2002 0:02AM ET

REST Roundup

REST Roundup 05/23/2002 10:39 PM

SWiM - A CMS for the rest of us

SWiM - A CMS for the rest of us 03/30/2005 07:17 AM
SWiM Beta1

REST & SOAP

REST & SOAP 11/08/2002 04:05 AM
A presentation summarizing REST and SOAP by Peter Drayton, Program Manager (CLR), Microsoft.

The thesis for my talk was that this area of intersection (RESTful SOAP) is actually a good thing, as it provides an opportunity for SOAP to learn valuable architectural lessons from REST, and an opportunity for REST to benefit from SOAP's widespread acceptance among corporate developers.

Powerpoint version.

"zeldman.altbarn"

Better Than the Rest- Hiring Specialists

Better Than the Rest- Hiring Specialists 06/24/2005 03:04 PM

Where's Windows Installer 3.0 for the
Rest of Us?

Where's Windows Installer 3.0 for the
Rest of Us? 09/09/2004 06:02 PM

Webs At Rest and In Motion

Webs At Rest and In Motion 07/10/2002 06:53 PM
Kendall Clark reports on best practices for web application design as discussed on the REST mailing list.

US Vs Rest Of The World Spelling

US Vs Rest Of The World Spelling 04/14/2005 03:10 PM

U.S. Wireless Use Behind Rest of World
(AP)

U.S. Wireless Use Behind Rest of World
(AP) 12/19/2004 02:58 PM
AP - On a trip on the Tokyo subway last year, almost everyone ignored the young man talking on one wireless phone, messaging with another and juggling a third.

The Rest of Sony's USB Drives

The Rest of Sony's USB Drives 06/21/2004 12:22 PM

I guess that Pocket Bit Pro 2GB USB hard drive wasn't the only USB device announced by Sony today, although the rest are these Yet Another Flash Drives, which Sony has updated across the line. The Pocket Bit U-Mini D (USM-D) are 30 percent smaller than previous models in sizes up to 256MB. The USM-F include a fingerprint sensor for security, although it only comes in a 128MB flavor. The USB-BMS is a 128MB model that includes a Memory Stick PRO slot, which would make it a bit more handy than just a generic Memory Stick PRO reader, if that's the flash memory format you're locked into you've chosen. And finally, the USM-E, which isn't really that special except that it's the largest of them all, capacity-wise, at 512MB.
Read [TechJapan]

Related
Sony Pocket Bit Pro, 2GB USB Hard Drive [Gizmodo]

Zero Gravity Flights for the Rest of Us

Zero Gravity Flights for the Rest of Us 09/14/2004 02:28 PM

Star Hunting for the Rest of Us

Star Hunting for the Rest of Us 04/18/2005 04:53 AM
An amateur astronomer confirms the discovery of a supernova with an online telescope. Web-based scopes may be leveling the playing field between amateurs and the big boys. By Amit Asaravala.

Tomorrow is the first day of the rest of
the year.

Tomorrow is the first day of the rest of
the year. 12/31/2004 12:53 PM
January Is......
Family Fit Lifestyle Month....International Creativity Month....International Balance Month....N ational Be On Purpose Month....National Clean Up Your Computer Month....Get Organized Month....Nat ional High-Tech Month....National Hot Tea Month....National Personal Self-Defense Awareness Month....National Reaching Your Potential Month....Oatm eal Month....National Walk Your Pet Month....Eradica tion of Colonialism Month....National Radon Action Month....National Clean Out Your Desk Month....National Birth Defects Prevention Month....National Bread Machine Baking Month....Autism Awareness Month....National Eye Care Month....National Glaucoma Awareness Month....National Soup Month....Fat Free Living Month....Reminiscence Month....and much more.

MeFi: may she rest in peace

MeFi: may she rest in peace 07/23/2004 09:55 PM
Tombstone Generator

Features: REST Reporting

Features: REST Reporting 03/14/2005 05:44 PM
Eric Gropp describes the design of a REST web service for creating paper reports using XSLT and XSLFO.

Focus On The Rest Of Your Life

Focus On The Rest Of Your Life 01/09/2004 09:57 PM
When you have free time to play or to create, how do you spend your time? By Daniel H. Steinberg (O'Reilly Network via MyAppleMenu)

Reader: Where are Web tools for the rest
of us?

Reader: Where are Web tools for the rest
of us? 08/11/2004 01:02 AM
ZDNet Aug 11 2004 5:32AM GMT

A Picture is worth ... well, you know
the rest...

A Picture is worth ... well, you know
the rest... 04/27/2004 11:48 AM
A Picture's Worth :: a slightly different kind of photo blog -- a single (often excellent) photo, accompanied by a short (often poignant) essay which explains the emotions, memories or thoughts that the photograph triggers for the photographer.
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Using a CPG to make Robots Belly Dance

Using a CPG to make Robots Belly Dance 01/22/2004 03:31 AM
Central Pattern Generators are networks of neurons that allow vertebrates to perform certain types of movement without the involvement of the brain. In humans, a CPG is thought to produce walking motions. A CPG in chickens allows them to run around after their heads are cut off. Inspired by CPGs and Lucy Liu, researcher Jimmy Or of the Humanoid Research Institute at Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan has used software that simulates the CPG of a lamprey (possibly the Ekeberg / Ijspeert lamprey CPG?) to build a robot that can belly dance. The full story appears in a recent Nature Science Update. For more on CPGs, see Central Pattern Generators (PDF format) by Scott L. Hooper.

Let Her Dance, Let Her Dance, Ket Her
Dance All Night Long....

Let Her Dance, Let Her Dance, Ket Her
Dance All Night Long.... 05/07/2004 11:27 PM
Bobby Fuller< /a> was a Texas based rock and roll singer best known for the immortal rebel anthem &quot;I Fought The Law,&quot;. Considered by many to be the heir to Buddy Holly as the king of Texas Rock, he built on Holly's style with songs like the aforementioned &quot;...Law,&quot; &quot;Jenny Lee,&quot; &quot;Love's Made A Fool Of You,&quot; and the 2 1/2 minute masterpiece &quot;Let Her Dance.&quot; And then it ended, at age 22, in very weird circumstances. Over the years, interest in Fuller and his work has ebbed and flowed, and plenty of archival material surfaced, but the mystery of his death remains unsolved, although many have speculated. Ann odd end for a footnote character in rick history, but who was bound for more

Kids try to dance away weight

Kids try to dance away weight 04/06/2005 11:49 AM
globetechnology.com Apr 6 2005 3:35PM GMT

Kids in Study Try to Dance Away Weight
(AP)

Kids in Study Try to Dance Away Weight
(AP) 04/04/2005 11:18 AM
AP - Like many other 11-year-old boys, K.D. Jones loves sports. But at 5 feet, 175 pounds, he found his weight and his asthma an obstacle. His doctor wanted him to lose 50 pounds, and he is hoping a new health study using a video dance game will help him get down to 125 by the end of summer in time to play football.

Health insurers to fat kids: Go play
Dance Dance Revolution

Health insurers to fat kids: Go play
Dance Dance Revolution 04/04/2005 01:18 PM
Cory Doctorow: American health insurers are working with obesity researchers to encourage children to play Dance Dance Revolution on home consoles with dance-mats as a way of reversing childhood obesity and the concomitant health costs later in life.

Jones is one of 85 children in an at-home study trying the popular Dance Dance Revolution video game to boost their activity. The study is being done by West Virginia's public employees insurance group in hopes it will lead to better health and lower costs.

Jones lost about 10 pounds by changing his diet. Now, after two weeks playing the game, he has lost another 10.

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Kickass Kung Fu: Like Dance Dance
Revolution for martial artists

Kickass Kung Fu: Like Dance Dance
Revolution for martial artists 06/24/2005 06:25 PM
Cory Doctorow: Kickass Kung Fu is a video-game in which you use real martial-arts moves to control an on-screen kung-fu fighter in order to best both human and AI opponents.

The game takes place on a 5 meter cushioned playfield suitable for martial arts and acrobatics training. Using custom computer vision technology, you are taken inside an artificial reality where the normal laws of physics no longer apply. Your movements are exaggerated so that you can easily dodge your opponent's bullets by jumping five meters in the air and landing behind his back. Using the dual projected screens, one at each end of the playfield, you can also continue by counter-attacking your stupefied enemy from the behind.

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Play Dance Dance Revolution... Save On
Insurance

Play Dance Dance Revolution... Save On
Insurance 04/04/2005 01:54 PM
There have been discussions over the past few years about the problem of childhood obesity and how video games that force kids to be active may be at least part of the solution. While going outside and doing something is probably better, if they must be staring at a screen, they might as well be active about it. It appears that one insurance company has decided to test this out and is running a study by giving Dance, Dance Revolution to kids in an effort to make them lose some weight. While others have noted the aerobic nature of the game (and the game apparently has a calorie burning counter as an option), this appears to be the first insurance company promoting the game. Next thing you know, your car insurance rates will rise if you play Grand Theft Auto...

Life on the pro Dance Dance Revolution
circuit

Life on the pro Dance Dance Revolution
circuit 01/25/2004 04:09 AM
Yoz has posted a great account of his encounter with a touring clade of pan-European Dance Dance Revolution obsessives:

"We're a group of DDR players in Norway." Do they play other bemani games? "No, just DDR." He points to the guy he was playing with, now off the machine and chatting to his girlfriend. "He's from Sweden, he has a DDR group there too." The machine is now in the control of the third chap, a large-ish bloke with shoulder-length hair. "He has a group in France, but they play all kinds of music games." Do you guys play competitively? "Sometimes... like tomorrow. It's why we're all here - there's a big contest at the Namco arcade in Westminster. There'll be players from four different countries. It's pretty big."

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DJ Format meets Dance Dance Revolution

DJ Format meets Dance Dance Revolution 04/03/2005 07:50 PM
DJ Format meets Dance Dance Revolution Director Keith Schofield turns out a blazing video for British DJ Format and his top notch crew of pasty Canadian rappers, turning their song "3 Feet Deep" into a high adrenaline arcade hi-score smashing rampage.

Dance Dance Revolution as teen
weightloss aid

Dance Dance Revolution as teen
weightloss aid 05/24/2004 06:59 PM
This CNN piece follows the tales of formerly supersized boy and girl geeks who shed *lots* of unwanted weight playing the wacky Japanese electronic game "Dance Dance Revolution." In DDR, players stomp around on a grid of brightly lit squares while hyperfast techno music blares at them from a video display unit. There's also a home version, which sells for under US$50.

As she cooled herself in front of a fan at a video arcade, two teenage boys danced on a machine nearby. Their sneakers pounded out a staccato rhythm at a pace so fast that "Lord of the Dance"'s Michael Flatley would be envious.

Not everyone sees dramatic results. Seventeen-year-old Justin Meeks says his body is more toned, but his weight hasn't changed. He's pleased to point out, though, that his dancing skills have helped him get girls. "Two. I'm guilty of that," Justin said with a grin as he watched friends play DDR.

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Dance, White Boy, Dance (glumbert.com)

Dance, White Boy, Dance (glumbert.com) 04/08/2005 05:05 AM
born

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Robot Toys - Robosapien Dance Machine
Released as Open Source Software

Robot Toys - Robosapien Dance Machine
Released as Open Source Software 03/14/2005 05:06 PM
Many Robosapien owners are looking for a way to get more out of the greatest consumer robot of the new millennium. The Robosapien Dance Machine software, released as a free open source program on SourceForge, is a powerful tool for creating your own videos, comedy sketches, and complex performances with your favorite robot. [PRWEB Mar 7, 2005]

Dance dance revolution

Dance dance revolution 10/28/2003 11:07 PM
Holy cow!! They just had the guy from the Kollaboration 2000 talent contest perform in between talks. Fucking amazing.

Dance Voldo Dance

Dance Voldo Dance 07/18/2004 03:34 PM
Dance, Voldo, Dance (embedded quicktime .mov) Two people controlling two Voldos (the #1 freak from Soul Caliber). Quite possibly the most amazing synchronized video game dancing you'll ever see.

Dance, Voldo, Dance

Dance, Voldo, Dance 07/19/2004 04:26 AM
Soul Calibur's Voldo choreographed to music .. 11.2 MB Quicktime Link .. Dance, Voldo, Dance

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Dance Dance Resurrection

Dance Dance Resurrection 05/28/2004 04:51 PM
Jesus-themed variant of DDR (shut up, don't go pointing me to snopes -- of *course* it's a hoax).
Link; other recent BoingBoing posts on DDR 1, 2, 3. (millegrazie, mi piccolo snoodilio, also on Absolute Friends:

But who is Mundy Three, when Mundys One and Two have gone to bed? Who is this third person who is neither one of the other two, who lies awake while they sleep, and listens for the chimes of country bells he doesn't hear? He is the silent spectator. he is the one member of the audience who doesn't applaud the performances of his two familiars. He is made up of all the odd bits of his life that are left over after he has given the rest away.

Cellphone Weight Watcher

Cellphone Weight Watcher 06/24/2005 04:02 PM

The Technical Research Centre in Finland has developed a technology to assist all of the health nuts in the world. It is a camera phone that scans barcodes at grocery stores and gives all of the nutritional information. This device also gives a purchase history and estimates how much exercise it will take to burn off calories contained. In this day and age, turning the package over and looking at the printed nutritional content is way too hard.

M obile Phone Healthy Living [TreeHugger]

I Would Like You to Dance

I Would Like You to Dance 04/09/2004 04:07 PM

SmartyPants 1.5 is out.

Update: Version 1.5.1 is now out, with one small bug fix for Movable Type users.

The Dance Is On

The Dance Is On 03/13/2003 10:24 AM
This month's Google Dance has begun; you can track its march across the data centers in the righthand sidebar of dance.efactory.de....

Sun does SOA dance

Sun does SOA dance 07/02/2004 05:54 PM
Sun Microsystems is developing SOA (service-oriented architecture) technology called Project Kitty Hawk, Sun officials said at the JavaOne Conference in San Francisco last week.

Shall We Dance?

Shall We Dance? 08/27/2002 03:44 AM

the safety dance

the safety dance 11/18/2003 11:36 AM
Anne and I were listening to Fred while we were driving home from Burbank the other day. That stupid "Safety...

The Antitrust Tap Dance

The Antitrust Tap Dance 04/20/2004 04:46 PM
Dealerscope Apr 20 2004 7:54PM GMT

NAS: the elephants dance

NAS: the elephants dance 04/07/2005 09:32 PM
TechWorld Apr 8 2005 1:36AM GMT

When's the dance?

When's the dance? 01/03/2003 12:48 AM
Google Dance Tool tracks the dance by watching when backlinks on three popular pages are updated. It tells you when the last changed (the last dance) and offers to email you when the next dance starts. Very useful for compulsive Google watchers....

The religious right dance in NYC

The religious right dance in NYC 08/31/2004 10:21 PM

The Google Dance

The Google Dance 06/12/2002 06:22 AM
What is the Google Dance? LinkTree says: Once in a month Google calculates the pagerank of each page and changes the serp (search enigne result pages) for all keywords. The Google Dance is called the time between the start and the end of an update. In that time you get different results on www.google.com, www2.google.com and www3.google.com. Normally the Google Dance took about 4 days. The best time to put new pages online is during the Google-Dance. If you let too much time lapse between the completion of the update, and the publication of new content, you may reduce the amount of new content that will be included in the next update. Woz at WebmasterWorld offers this alternate explanation: They put some pages in, They take some pages out, They calculate the PageRank, Then they shake it all about, They wait until the full moon Then they mix the servers up, Thats what its all about. If you're really interested, WebmasterWorld keeps a chart of Google Update History.

*does the happy kid dance*

*does the happy kid dance* 06/30/2004 11:31 AM
One phone call, can make your day....

"Robotic Dance"

"Robotic Dance" 12/20/2003 09:47 PM

Robots and the Rest of Us