A Robotic Assistant in Need of Legs Gets Some Wheels

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PNI Sponsors Local Robotic Vehicle Team:
Desert Field Test of Robotic Vehicles
Offers $2 Million Prize

PNI Sponsors Local Robotic Vehicle Team:
Desert Field Test of Robotic Vehicles
Offers $2 Million Prize 12/17/2004 06:40 PM
Cobalt Horizons announced that PNI Corporation will support its efforts to win a $2 million prize in a Defense Department research and development initiative aimed at advancing robotics technologies for future military use. The initiative, known as the DARPA Grand Challenge, is a field test of fully autonomous ground vehicles to be conducted in the Mojave Desert on October 8, 2005. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is offering the $2 million to the vehicle that completes the course the fastest within a 10-hour period. [PRWEB Oct 20, 2004]

Sea legs

Sea legs 04/23/2004 05:45 PM
Tadaima! Honey, I'm home! A seven-day vacation passed like a whirlwind... although while in the midst of the fun, it...

Robo-Legs

Robo-Legs 06/22/2005 02:03 AM
In new smart arms and legs, sensors and software combine to blur the line between man and machine.

CPM Ad Metric Still Has Legs.

CPM Ad Metric Still Has Legs. 12/01/2002 07:55 AM
Althougth advertisers have been denouncing CPM (Cost Per Thousand Impressions) for ages, it lives on and may be showing signs of strength.

She's got legs, she knows how to use
them

She's got legs, she knows how to use
them 04/09/2004 04:11 PM
She never begs, she knows how to choose them. She's holdin' leg wonderin' how to feel them. Would you get...

Daleks to sprout legs

Daleks to sprout legs 08/09/2004 07:28 AM
Stair challenge solved at a stroke

Open Source: Legs Apart

Open Source: Legs Apart 05/13/2004 08:04 PM

Timothy Appnel reports on the release of Six Apart's Movable Type (MT) 3.0 Developer Edition and the MT community's reaction to changes in terms and licensing cost.  He closes with this comment:

This outcry raises a bigger more important point which is the reason for my post. As a developer and one who makes a living writing code, this reaction to Six Apart's new licensing is really disheartening and on a certain level frustrating to see. I am a firm believer and backer of open source. I've personally released quite a bit of open source code myself and will continue to do so. However this apparent expectation of the vocal part of community that it is their right to have all great works of software at no cost is bothersome. If users don't have the funds or won't pay on principle for my time, effort or talent – how do I eat?

While I was thinking about the question, I couldn't help but notice how similar the situation is with carnal relations.  Six Apart and other open source companies have opened their legs in return for love.  And now they risk losing the love if they start playing hard to get.  No easy solutions there.

Maybe Doctor Ruth can help.

At the Track, a Technology with Legs

At the Track, a Technology with Legs 04/30/2004 02:00 AM
Business Week Apr 30 2004 6:16AM GMT

Dog Gets Prosthetic Legs in Michigan
(AP)

Dog Gets Prosthetic Legs in Michigan
(AP) 04/27/2004 05:23 PM
AP - The 6-year-old patient has two new legs and can walk, run, sit and frolic. And bark.

Thailand uses long legs to look hip
(Reuters)

Thailand uses long legs to look hip
(Reuters) 02/13/2004 07:54 AM
Reuters - Thailand's prime minister has brought out the fashion world's longest pair of legs to kick off a campaign to make Bangkok one of the world's trend capitals, but designers say the city is no Paris of the East.

Restless Legs: Uncomfortable and
Overlooked

Restless Legs: Uncomfortable and
Overlooked 05/24/2004 08:17 PM
Millions of Americans suffer from restless legs syndrome, but few receive proper diagnoses, according to a new study.

Standards Bodies to Give the Web Legs

Standards Bodies to Give the Web Legs 07/30/2004 10:22 AM
The W3C and OMA agree to work on application standards for mobile devices; the SEC takes a closer look at XBRL.

Eating frog legs = cannibalism?

Eating frog legs = cannibalism? 07/01/2004 08:51 AM
Irania n woman 'gives birth to frog' (BBC) "While it is unclear how this could have happened, the [Iranian] paper carries quotes from medical experts who say there are human characteristics to the animal....Medical history recounts stories of people who believed they had frogs - or even lizards or snakes - living and growing in their bodies....One of the most famous was the 17th Century case of Catharina Geisslerin, known as "the toad-vomiting woman" of Germany. " Could this be connected to that 20 pound carp's apocalyptic warnings spouted in Hebrew, last year, as a fish cutter tried to club it to death with a rubber hammer to make it into gefilte fish? Or, maybe it was those new tomatoes? Or an Old Testament thing, maybe a prophecy?

Cockroach racing: it's got legs, baby

Cockroach racing: it's got legs, baby 06/16/2004 11:58 AM
Bring on the kakerlaken! Following up on a previous post about the v hot Euro party game trend of Cockroach racing, Boing Boing reader Rochus Wolff says:

"Cockroach races have been up and about here in Berlin for a couple of years now, apparently introduced by the russian painter Nikolai Makarov. He claims (and I have no way of disprove him) that this is an old Russian tradition. I attended one of these races in January 2001 - it was a celebration of the Russian New Year, and a very odd mixture of betting on the cockroaches, drinking, eating and socialising.

"The race I attended was also quite fun because of the silly stories they made up about the roaches racing against each other. Apparently, one of them (Olga) was the daughter of another one, had then killed and eaten her father, but only after mating with him and having a child (Olga II), which was now racing not only against her mother, but also (I think) against another one of her father's children... or something. It was pretty weird, and quite funny.

"There are photos online (not mine, though) of a similar event in November 2002 here."

XP Has No Legs - 80% of Corporations
Reject Microsoft XP

XP Has No Legs - 80% of Corporations
Reject Microsoft XP 04/13/2004 02:26 PM
"...a study in December found that 80 percent of companies still have some machines running Windows 95 or Windows 98...39 percent of desktops were running either Windows 95 or Windows 98.".

Laptop Legs And Mac Feet Keep Portables
On Their Toes

Laptop Legs And Mac Feet Keep Portables
On Their Toes 03/19/2005 02:29 AM

By Ian Austen, New York Times

On Last Legs, Old NASA Tower Gains
Supporters

On Last Legs, Old NASA Tower Gains
Supporters 02/16/2004 07:53 PM
The 500-foot steel giant that was the last bit of earthly matter to touch the Apollo rocket ships as they left our planet, is in danger of being sold as scrap metal.

Eminem suing Apple - case has legs

Eminem suing Apple - case has legs 05/19/2004 04:40 AM
Silicon.com May 19 2004 8:39AM GMT

Octopuses dressed up as sea coconuts
sneaking on two legs

Octopuses dressed up as sea coconuts
sneaking on two legs 03/24/2005 08:15 PM
Cory Doctorow: Nature reports on findings that octopusses like to put sea coconuts on their heads pretend to be sea coconuts or pose like hunks of coral and tiptoe around on two of their legs like Wile E Coyote pretending to be a shrub. The video footage of the sneak octopi is laugh-out-loud funny! Link (Thanks, Kathryn!)

Monkey Apes Humans by Walking on Two
Legs (AP)

Monkey Apes Humans by Walking on Two
Legs (AP) 07/21/2004 02:56 PM
AP - A young monkey at an Israeli zoo has started walking on its hind legs only — aping humans — after a near death experience, the zoo's veterinarian said Wednesday.

Online auction house yanks CD of women's
legs

Online auction house yanks CD of women's
legs 08/13/2004 05:22 AM
Twincities.com - Fri Aug 13, 09:28 am GMT

Case for Ancient Upright-Walking
Ancestor Gets Legs

Case for Ancient Upright-Walking
Ancestor Gets Legs 09/06/2004 11:51 PM

Dead Man's Dangling Legs Greet Couple
(Reuters)

Dead Man's Dangling Legs Greet Couple
(Reuters) 01/02/2004 10:45 AM
Reuters - A New Mexico couple returned home from a week-long vacation to find the legs of a dead man dangling from their ceiling, police said.

" Yahoo! News - Monkey Apes Humans by
Walking on Two Legs "

" Yahoo! News - Monkey Apes Humans by
Walking on Two Legs " 07/23/2004 09:56 AM

Yahoo! News - Monkey Apes Humans by
Walking on Two Legs

Yahoo! News - Monkey Apes Humans by
Walking on Two Legs 07/22/2004 09:38 AM
Monkey walks upright after near-death experience .. Monkey Apes Humans by Walking on Two Legs .. See the Monkey Walk .. JERUSALEM

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Wheels of woodgrain

Wheels of woodgrain 08/05/2004 10:26 AM
The Nordic Concept Artist turntable is a work of audiophile art, both in form and apparently function. One vibration-damped cabinet contains the platter and tone-arm, the other holds the motor and phono preamp. It's just $15,500... not including the equally-fetishistic Airtangent 2002 air bearing tonearm at $11,500. Link (via Hy Phi)

Wireless web gets a set of wheels

Wireless web gets a set of wheels 05/29/2004 03:03 AM
A New York artist has come up with the idea of turning his bicycle into a wireless net connection.

WiFi On Two Wheels

WiFi On Two Wheels 05/05/2004 01:16 AM

"Bits on Wheels"

"Bits on Wheels" 03/29/2005 04:56 AM

What Next? Ferris Wheels?

What Next? Ferris Wheels? 02/15/2004 03:43 PM
Seven dead at a kite festival in Pakistan. and 9 dead at a water park in Russia. When is a ferris wheel going to...

The Wheels Come Off the Lakers' Dynasty

The Wheels Come Off the Lakers' Dynasty 06/19/2004 01:17 AM
Phil Jackson's coaching career with the Lakers is over, and Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O'Neal might follow him out of Los Angeles.

Tatra Mac G4 - fastest Mac on the four
wheels?

Tatra Mac G4 - fastest Mac on the four
wheels? 01/25/2004 05:43 AM
Autoon liitetty Macintosh Tsekeistä .. too much time, a car, and a Mac .. Power Mac G4 car system .. awesome car mod

mujmac.cz/art/hw/tatra_mac_eng.html
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Wanted: Training Wheels

Wanted: Training Wheels 03/14/2005 05:06 PM
Dan Benjamin: there are some issues that a person new to programming should be aware of before they decide to start off on the path to Ruby (and Rails). Related: OnLamp: part I, Part II Amy Hoy: Getting Started, MVC, What Goes Where Others: Trails/Java, Subway/Python, CherryPy/Python Ruby on Rails

Tatra Mac G4 - Fastest Mac On Four
Wheels?

Tatra Mac G4 - Fastest Mac On Four
Wheels? 01/22/2004 10:25 AM

Nortel wheels and deals

Nortel wheels and deals 06/22/2004 10:11 PM
Sympatico Jun 23 2004 2:46AM GMT

Polaris Wheels Out Growth

Polaris Wheels Out Growth 04/18/2005 02:43 PM
It turns in solid sales and income growth despite a lackluster performance in sales of snowmobiles.

HailStorm training wheels

HailStorm training wheels 07/21/2004 10:49 AM

Many folks wouldn't want to be reminded how easy it is to convert sparse input into a detailed profile that includes a phone number, a street address, a satellite photo, and driving directions. Re-entering the basic facts each time perpetuates an illusion of privacy. Yet the reality, for many of us, is that these facts are public.

Since I haven't told Google (or any other directories) to delete my records, I've implicitly given permission for Web applications to use that data. Let me now make that permission explicit. I'd be happy if a Web form made intelligent use of public information about me.

I'd be even happier if I could control the source of that data. Public information is a poorly defined concept, after all. There are online directories that still remember an address I vacated five years ago. I'd like to maintain the facts about me that I deem public. When applications need those facts, I'd like to refer them to a service that dispenses them. [Full story at InfoWorld.com]

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QA Assistant 0.4

QA Assistant 0.4 08/05/2004 12:05 AM
A GNOME checklist program to aid in writing quality assurance reviews.

QA Assistant

QA Assistant 04/12/2004 10:11 AM
Qa Assistant 0.2 moves to sourceforge
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