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Posts Tagged ‘humor’

Robot Sunday: Cat pwns robot

Posted in Play on 14 February 2010 | Comments?
Tags: funny, humor, robots, robotsunday

If robots ever go ahead with their plan for an uprising, we can rely on these wonderful creatures to save us. Here’s one in training.

Link dump: Tubes, vampires, cookies

Posted in Play on 30 January 2010 | Comments?
Tags: astronomy, humor, internet, links, scifi, space

(It’s time for another link dump, a hodgepodge of web goodness. Enjoy!)
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There is a theory — a “unified” theory, in fact — that the universe is connected by “wave tubes”. (Imagine traveling to other galaxies through wormholes ala-Star Gate.) But I digress.
On a less grander scale, but still beautiful, here is the Milky Way, represented [...]

Link dump: Shuttles, monsters and Apple(s)

Posted in Play on 22 January 2010 | Comments?
Tags: apple, books, comics, humor, links, science, space

(This blog has largely been content-free for a while now. Heh, sorry. To remedy the rut, I’m opting for a tried-and-tested strategy: posting random, unrelated links. Enjoy.)
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Everything must go! NASA puts out a garage sale that includes space suits, engines and — get this — space shuttles. Discounts are available (about 30%, according to a [...]

Robot Sunday: Better design

Posted in Play on 17 January 2010 | Comments?
Tags: comics, humor, robots, robotsunday, xkcd

I’m not sure this design would have made it to the RoboCup. Great idea, though.

(The mouseover text reference, by the way, is a classic!)

Robot Sunday: Stickers

Posted in Play on 10 January 2010 | Comments?
Tags: cool, fun, humor, robots

I want one!