The Inane Asylum

It's amazing sometimes to watch how other creatures of this earth are so much like us humans.

It's clips like these that make me want to start watching hockey. Listen towards the end when they replay with sound how the fight started. That's diesel.

From the same people who brought you The Ghetto Big Mac, comes BODEGA

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When I first read about this a few days ago, I never thought she would actually be found guilty, but it seems she has. This is absolutely ridiculous.

Norwich, Conn seventh grade teacher, Julie Amero has been convicted of four counts of risk of injury to a minor after her classroom PC displayed pornographic pop-ups in class. While an expert for the defendant said he had discovered spyware on her PC that had been downloaded from a hairstyling site, the local police investigator claimed that the spyware had been downloaded from actively visiting porn sites. Amero testified that she had told four other teachers and the assistant principal about the popups, but received no assistance. The school's internet filtration software was not working because it's license had expired. Amero faces up to forty years in prison.

The local article can be found here

The register also has a good write up here

I'm thinking of just starting a blog called "Way Too Much Time" since these are always my favorite posts.

Anyway, in this edition of "Way Too Much Time", we bring you Gary Reign, who remodeled his home theater as the bridge of a Star Trek starship.

His site can be found here

And here is a link to a mirror since his site is already slashdotted.

I know I already posted this, but this movie is too good. Please do your part and vote bodega 5 stars over at metacafe.

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iRobot vacuum cleaner + 4 hearing aides + an xbox controller = sniper finder

from popsci.com

An Ear for Snipers

The RedOwl is a robotic head that looks more like a PowerPoint projector than a sharpshooter’s worst enemy. But don’t let its Circuit City appearance fool you: Controlled by a laptop-wielding soldier, the RedOwl’s superior senses can read a nametag from across a football field and identify the make and model of a rifle fired a mile away simply by analyzing the sound of the distant blast. And soon it could be putting its powers to use in Iraq.

RedOwl’s developer, Glenn Thoren, now a director at Insight Technology in Londonderry, New Hampshire, says several prototypes have finished an intensive 10-week field test at Fort Benning in Georgia. Given the defense department’s budget approval early this year, he hopes the $150,000 sniper-finders will be in Iraq by this spring.

The robot’s mechanical ears were originally designed to improve hearing aides. But Thoren, then with Boston University’s Photonics Center, which heads the RedOwl project, thought up a new application after learning of a spike in sniper activity surrounding Iraqi hotspots like Abu Ghraib prison. He combined the original listening system—which processes sound received by four microphones to determine the direction and elevation of a noise—with a suite of sensors, spotlights and a laser rangefinder. When the RedOwl hears gunfire, it swivels its head toward the source of the noise. A thermal imager can pick out the sniper while an infrared spotlight illuminates him for night-vision-equipped troops.

Attached to a PackBot, a miniature robot tank built by iRobot in Burlington, Massachusetts, and steered by a modified Xbox videogame controller, the RedOwl can also enter dangerous buildings in advance of soldiers. “We’re hoping to put the robot in situations where it would be less safe for a soldier,” Thoren says.

In case you haven't heard, Dallas Penn and Rafi Kam have been sent to Sundance by the Dailty Reel, and one of the many perks of being sent to Sundance is the Swag

Sundance Episode 3 “Celeb Status” is out. Check it out...

Episode 4 is out and it's a good one. To use Rafi's own words, "and it's minor celebrity packed. also full of me cracking up as we tried to shoot at like 3:30am".

The highlight for me was the cameo by Keith David at the end. I loved his character in Dead Presidents.

Episode 5 is out. I think this may be there best one yet.