So Begins the Vice-Presidential Mating Dance

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washingtonpost.com - Vice Presidential
Debate Between Vice President Cheney and
Sen. John Edwards

washingtonpost.com - Vice Presidential
Debate Between Vice President Cheney and
Sen. John Edwards 10/07/2004 04:14 PM

The Mating Dance of Elephants

The Mating Dance of Elephants 04/07/2005 07:50 AM

According to a BusinessWeek article, phone companies trying to get into the video market are running into an obstacle: movie studios and other content owners. They aren't willing to license their content for video-on-demand and other new distribution formats.

Frankly, I hope the studios continue to hold out against the inevitable transformation of the video marketplace. The telcos are pouring money into fiber and IPTV deployments because they are scared about the competitive threat from cable companies, who are getting into the voice market. At some point, all dressed up with nothing to show, they may decide to take matters into their own hands. I'd love to see the phone companies throw their resources and political muscle into the process of blowing up the existing video value chain, alongside the smaller innovators like Tivo and BrightCove.

CNN.com - Clark says he won't be vice
presidential nominee

CNN.com - Clark says he won't be vice
presidential nominee 01/06/2004 05:36 AM
Meet the Press

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McSweeney's Internet Tendency: PROS AND
CONS OF JOHN KERRY'S TOP TWENTY
VICE-PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES

McSweeney's Internet Tendency: PROS AND
CONS OF JOHN KERRY'S TOP TWENTY
VICE-PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES 05/29/2004 06:07 PM
PROS AND CONS OF JOHN KERRY'S TOP TWENTY VICE-PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES

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Weeklong Tribute to Reagan Begins at
Presidential Library

Weeklong Tribute to Reagan Begins at
Presidential Library 06/07/2004 04:07 PM
Ronald Reagan's family is to hold a small private ceremony before the library's doors open to the thousands of visitors.

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

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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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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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...

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.

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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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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Dance, familiar. Dance...

Dance, familiar. Dance... 12/11/2003 02:34 PM

An interesting line about the selves manufactured by spies (that seems to me to have currency for all people who have cause to narrativise their lives in one way or another) from John Le Carré's rather blandly-titled (but also rather good) new novel 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.

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 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 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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Hi tech mating rituals

Hi tech mating rituals 11/17/2003 12:59 AM
iafrica.com Nov 17 2003 0:15AM ET

Robotic mating proposal

Robotic mating proposal 03/28/2005 01:17 PM
Xeni Jardin: Jason Striegel wrote an interesting post for Hackaday about a proposed sexual evolution mechanism for robots. He tells Boing Boing:

Using Lego Mindstorms, you can create simple robots that have the ability to mate (swap a simple software genome) and evolve (random chance of single point mutations). Mutations that make a robot unfit for traversing its environment or unable to mate will effectively drive it toward extinction as it cannot pass on its genes.

It's a pretty interesting experiment, as you can watch novel behaviors emerge with each generation. Even more interesting are the possible applications for an evolution based robotic platform. Two things that immediately come to mind are sex-based software upgrade mechanisms for distributed machines and distributed robot cultures that can adapt as a group to be optimized for communication in an environment, rather than being explicitly programmed for the task.

Now, I couldn't find any specific reference to fembots with gun-boobies in Jason's post, but any excuse to post this jpeg's a good one. Link

James P. Howard says:

This is ancient technology. Start with the Wikipedia article on genetic algorithms (Link) and for an excellent lay introduction, suggest "Artificial Life" by Steven Levy (Amazon Link)

Hubble Sees Intergalactic Mating

Hubble Sees Intergalactic Mating 01/09/2004 10:11 PM
CBS News Jan 9 2004 9:56PM ET

Mating Calls (BusinessWeek Online)

Mating Calls (BusinessWeek Online) 08/06/2004 09:38 AM
BusinessWeek Online - Cell phones are indispensable when you're on the road. But back in the office, they mostly get in the way. They ring at odd times, and if you use a headset with your office phone, they're awkward to answer. They certainly do nothing to improve your efficiency. The best solution would be to make your cell phone and land line work together better instead of competing for your attention. I've been looking at three different types of gadgets that let you do just that. The caveat: You'll need particular phones or wireless providers to use them. ...

Net art applet: Secret mating lives of
robots

Net art applet: Secret mating lives of
robots 07/28/2004 11:16 AM
Offspring is a lovely abstract visualization of the pair bonding process of a theoretical robot colony:

"Each robot is assembled, ages through youth, comes into a reproductive stage, and eventually dies of fatigue. If a robot is lucky enough to find a mate during it's reproductive stage, baby robots may be assembled.

Visually, the Offspring image is a historic graph of robot colony size and distribution. Males of the population are represented by single horizontal lines while Females are shown as double lines. (...) Robots can only mate with robots near them in both space in age. To encourage dissimilar permutations, robots are not allowed to mate with siblings."

BoingBoing reader Skye Ashbrook says, "They even give you the source code to each process. I'd love to take those and build small apps on my system to render really high-res versions to output to nice paper on an IRIS printer or something. They can't handle much traffic so if the link is fUXXored, please please keep trying back -- it is so worth it." Link

Update: BoingBoing reader Prion adds, "I was marveling at the mating robots and had in my mind that the work was similar to the magic found at levitated.net. Looking at the credits in the source code I discovered that flash master j.tarbell was the author, one of the levitated.net contributors. For glorious nonlinear flash animation, visit the site."

Octopus Lays Eggs After Successful
Mating

Octopus Lays Eggs After Successful
Mating 06/18/2004 12:25 AM
Abcnews.go.com - Thu Jun 17, 07:18 am GMT

Town kills 500 pigs for mating with dogs
(Reuters)

Town kills 500 pigs for mating with dogs
(Reuters) 07/09/2004 06:57 AM
Reuters - A Kenyan mayor has ordered more than 500 pigs to be shot dead because they were mating with stray dogs, the East African Standard has reported.

Mating Dinosaurs, crashed 'puters and
"virus' galore"

Mating Dinosaurs, crashed 'puters and
"virus' galore" 02/01/2005 08:42 PM

Special thanks to the script kiddies who've decided to make me misreable with over 50 virus' coming at me - at a time. And woe be it to the poor slob who's repair shop forgets to put the screwws back in the internal hard drive.

So all in all - Jan. 2005 was my lightest month of blogging - like ever. I think I offended Jason Kottke at some Vloggercon party, my clients are starting to get cranky and my kids finally got their birthday presents - which I had promised them back in November at their Bar Mitzvah.

The good news is that Carl is back, he's married and we're ready to rock the world.

First up - ourmedia.org.

It was great to see Greg Elin in NYC at Vloggercon and Mary Hodder at both Vloggercon and Blog Business Summit.

I also upgraded to MR 3.15 - but swtill no WYSIWYG editing. Anil promised something - but now I can't remember when we get it. He also said I get to come in and pitch open source infrastructure ideas to 6A - I can't wait.

They always seemed like the most likely candidates for becoming a DLA company - and supporting all sorts of new kinds of micro-content standards.

I have my fingers crossed on that one.

Critics call eHarmony's mating formula
patent nonsense

Critics call eHarmony's mating formula
patent nonsense 05/28/2004 04:57 AM
Chicago Sun-Times May 28 2004 8:44AM GMT

Shall We Dance?

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

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.

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....

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.

"Vice Cards"

"Vice Cards" 05/18/2004 11:43 AM

THE VICE GUIDE TO EVERYTHING

THE VICE GUIDE TO EVERYTHING 12/30/2004 06:27 AM
vice's do's and don'ts to everything

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Vice Squad

Vice Squad 06/15/2004 03:56 AM
Here's a new blog .. Jim Leitzel .. Vice Squad: .. vice

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Vice or price?

Vice or price? 03/13/2003 09:58 PM
'V ice or Price'? Don Johnson as Sonny Crockett in Miami Vice drove a fancy car while fighting the drug world. Now Don is suspected of trying laundering $8 billion in bonds, stocks and credit notes in Germany. He said he was there to buy a car. Some car!

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.

NAS: the elephants dance

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

Dance pop grows up

Dance pop grows up 02/10/2004 06:47 AM
Kylie Minogue's teasingly tantric "Body Language" and Sophie Ellis-Bextor's icily elegant "Shoot From the Hip" make Britney and Christina's over-the-top vocal gyrations look like child's play.

Dance Fever

Dance Fever 04/02/2005 04:03 PM
I'm tired of getting deleted every time I mention what a disgrace the USA has become. So lets forget our silly differences, how you illegally invaded a sovereign country and are torturing and murdering it's people, and DANCE!!!!!!! via b3ta
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