Robot Burn Video
Click play to start!
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THE ROBOT BURNS TONIGHT!
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The Fashion Police recommend wearing pants
itune out the war
The EU Supports Research Careers
The Marie Curie Actions program is funding science research in Europe:
The Marie Curie Actions provide research training, career development and mobility schemes allowing researchers to be truly mobile both internationally and between commercial and non-commercial sectors. There are opportunities for researchers at any career stage and of any nationality.
To explain their position, they have produced this video called CHEMICAL PARTY:
Also, if you haven’t seen it, here is an awesome ad for the Eppendorf EpMotion Pipetting Robot. This video was shot at Crissy Field:
My tin can speaker does not compare…
I would so LOVE to go on a ride w/ these guys!! Check out da bikes! – I love that each of them has a playlist.
(via Josh Spear who apparently gave away a free glow in the dark foldable bike to the person who sent in a link to the blingiest bike on the web. I wish I’d known about this sooner!!! nonetheless you can still see a fab collection of links to blingy bikes on his site.)
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I can haz complier??????
Here is a lightning talk by Partick Michaud at YAPC::Europe 2008 in Copenhagen, demonstrating the Parrot Compiler Toolkit. Live demo: a LOLCODE compiler. wut?
It would be really nice if we can take all these languages, pass them through Parrot, and translate them to other languages. I decided that wasn’t good enough. Let’s just translate them to LOLCODE.
video:
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Dang I look good with an afro!
You can see what you’d look like too (if you were graduating from high school sometime between 1950 to 2000 on Yearbook Yourself). Sadly, i do not look so good with what I imagine is the female version of the mullet.
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Injecting blogspam with Internet Hate
Several scraper sites rip off posts from tikirobot.net in order to generate AdSense revenue. Nothing new about this, and it’s never really bothered me.
But this morning, Sam and I were searching for a TR post and found that a scraper site showed up in search results ahead of TR. Obviously, something should be done. We could block the scraper, but that is Too Easy. We could redirect to goatse, but is Too Boring. We need something even more shocking.
Lulzlunch is exactly that.. a redirecting service for /b/ that allows hotlinking! We can infuse the scraper with the very worst of the Internet, and since it’s not goatse, I bet they won’t even notice.
Now we just need some RewriteEngine rules to perpetrate lulz based on referer:
[nocode]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} http://www\.go-robots\.com/.* [NC]
RewriteRule \.(gif|jpg|jpeg|png)$ http://www.lulzlunch.com/random/b [NC,R,L]
[/nocode]
You can test it out by going here. Hit shift-refresh to clear your cache. You should get a new random (probably horrible) image from /b/ on every refresh! Lemme know if it breaks something on TR.
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somewhere in boulder colorado…
jupiter is malfunctioning…
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Bernaling Man
A few weeks ago, we hosted wine tasting at our house.
50 bottles of wine were consumed.
This is the only picture I took:
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What’s making me happy today: Free Software License Upheld in US Court
The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has ruled that the Artistic License is enforceable! Happy day! The 16-page opinion is a good read.
From Lawrence Lessig:
So for non-lawgeeks, this won’t seem important. But trust me, this is huge.
[snip]
In non-technical terms, the Court has held that free licenses such as the CC licenses set conditions (rather than covenants) on the use of copyrighted work. When you violate the condition, the license disappears, meaning you’re simply a copyright infringer. This is the theory of the GPL and all CC licenses. Put precisely, whether or not they are also contracts, they are copyright licenses which expire if you fail to abide by the terms of the license.Important clarity and certainty by a critically important US Court.
Update:
orig photo by Sam Ogden
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Shooting Star(s) Alert!
The Perseids Meteor Shower, which happens every year, is set to peak tonight (between midnight and dawn). The best way to see the showers is to find someplace dark (away from city lights) and lie on your back with your feet pointing northeast. I did this one year somewhere in Marin and saw lots of shooting stars!
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5 Random Things I Learned about Life on Earth
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Lonesome George is the last known Pinta Island Tortoise. There may never be another tortoise of his subspeices after George. However, George has recently mated with a female of a similar species of Galápagos Tortoise. If the eggs hatch, the offspring would be ‘intergrades’. (via mefi)
- Certain forms of cancer are contagious and can be transmitted from animal to animal:
Cancer is not an infectious disease. And the axiom is (usually) correct. But there are exceptions. Those exceptions point toward a broader reality that scientists have begun to explore: Cancers, like species, evolve. And one way they can evolve is toward the capacity to be transmitted between individuals.
(via bb)
- The Berkeley Pit, one of the largest Superfund sites, is an abandoned copper mine in Montana that has flooded and become extremely acidic. No plants or animals were thought to be able to live in it, but single-celled algae was found living in the pit in 1995. Since then, more than 160 species of extremophiles have been discovered in the pit. From the wiki:
New fungal and bacterial species have been found to have adapted to the harsh conditions inside the pit. Intense competition for the limited resources caused these species to evolve the production of highly toxic compounds to improve survivability; natural products such as Berkeleydione, berkeleytrione and Berkeley acid have been isolated from these organisms which show selective activity against cancer cell lines.
- Fraternal twins can have multiple fathers. This is known as heteropaternal superfecundation and is rare in humans, but more common in other animals. Dogs and cats can have ‘multiple-sired litters’. (via Jess)
- Viruses can infect other viruses. This supports the idea that viruses are alive. (via ./)
- Bonus random thing: A wholphin is a hybrid between a bottlenose dolphin and a ‘false killer whale’, which is also a species of dolphin. Wholphin is also the name of McSweeney’s DVD Magazine of Unseen Films. We’ve been watching these on KenFlix, and they are awesome. I love the ‘secret’ films hidden in the DVD title animations.
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beijing blinky lights
mang sends this video of blinky lights on the Olympic promenade:
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