Thursday, March 18, 2004

The Mini Cooper Robot The Mini Cooper Robot. Amazing. A proper robot at last? Check out the videos. Via linkfilter. I first had the vision to build a robot while working as an engineer on the old Mini Coopers in the late 1960s. There were no real robots at the time of course, so it was purely science-fiction. But I always believed a robot would be the most natural complement to the automobile - a full biped, intelligent version having great strength, dexterity and a library of mechanical knowledge. I imagined a robot with the ability to repair vehicles, direct traffic and watch over high-accident crossroads to preempt accidents. [The Cartoonist] 6:40:38 PM

Mac OS X Downloads Mac OSX Downloads While I continue to database catalogs, I also spend time searching Bloglines for exciting tidbits of information. I always find exciting freeware or shareware things at MacOSX Downloads. Today, I found MahJong and a MIDI Percussion Program. I also ordered iLife 4 just to get Garage Band and the updated iDVD. I am aching to get some digital filmmaking projects going. It is only exacerbated since The Promethean (Kohl Glass's film) took BEST STUDENT SHORT FILM at Cinequest. It gets the fires of creative desire burning white-hot! [Cyndi Greening's Radio Blog] 6:39:37 AM

'A Bargain at Any Price' (Sign on the Dotted Line) New Contract. A record company executive came to visit. He had a new contract for me. He smoked a fat cigar. He was short, but powerful, and his hands and head were glowing. I sent him away. [Ottmar Liebert] 6:34:12 AM