The Crazy Robot http://www.crazyrobotblog.com To believe what another says about you is unconscious, robot thinking. - Barry Long Sun, 20 Jul 2008 19:46:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 en Subscribe with My Yahoo!Subscribe with NewsGatorSubscribe with My AOLSubscribe with BloglinesSubscribe with NetvibesSubscribe with GoogleSubscribe with PageflakesSubscribe with PlusmoSubscribe with Live.comAdd to Any Feed ReaderLinks for 2008-08-28 [Digg]http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheCrazyRobot/~3/377897916/duggFri, 29 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500http://digg.com/users/sikofitt//dugg#2008-08-28
  • Hack Turns iPhone into Macro Camera
    Forget about buying cheap, tacky plastic add-ons to mod the iPhone's camera. Flickr-er Daniel Forsythe instead used his knowledge of cellphone camera lenses to make this quick-and-dirty manual focus hack for the iPhone.
  • Bloomberg Accidentally Publishes Steve Jobs Obituary
    The Bloomberg financial newswire decided to update its 17-page Steve Jobs obituary today -- and inadvertently published it in the process.
    • ]]>    <ul> <li><a href="http://digg.com/apple/Hack_Turns_iPhone_into_Macro_Camera">Hack Turns iPhone into Macro Camera</a><br/> Forget about buying cheap, tacky plastic add-ons to mod the iPhone's camera. Flickr-er Daniel Forsythe instead used his knowledge of cellphone camera lenses to make this quick-and-dirty manual focus hack for the iPhone.</li> <li><a href="http://digg.com/apple/Bloomberg_Accidentally_Publishes_Steve_Jobs_Obituary">Bloomberg Accidentally Publishes Steve Jobs Obituary</a><br/> The Bloomberg financial newswire decided to update its 17-page Steve Jobs obituary today -- and inadvertently published it in the process.</li> </ul>http://digg.com/users/sikofitt//dugg#2008-08-28    Links for 2008-08-27 [Digg]http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheCrazyRobot/~3/377744546/duggThu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500http://digg.com/users/sikofitt//dugg#2008-08-27
  • Microsoft Pulls on Firefox's Tail
    Microsoft fired the latest volley in the new browser wars on Wednesday, releasing the latest version of Internet Explorer to the public. Our quick take: Microsoft wouldn't need an ad campaign featuring Jerry Seinfeld if it came out with more products like this.
  • Afghan spider forces Army family out of home
    The family of a British paratrooper has moved out of their home after a dangerous spider hitched a lift back from Afghanistan with him.
    • ]]>    <ul> <li><a href="http://digg.com/microsoft/Microsoft_Pulls_on_Firefox_s_Tail">Microsoft Pulls on Firefox's Tail</a><br/> Microsoft fired the latest volley in the new browser wars on Wednesday, releasing the latest version of Internet Explorer to the public. Our quick take: Microsoft wouldn't need an ad campaign featuring Jerry Seinfeld if it came out with more products like this.</li> <li><a href="http://digg.com/pets_animals/Afghan_spider_forces_Army_family_out_of_home">Afghan spider forces Army family out of home</a><br/> The family of a British paratrooper has moved out of their home after a dangerous spider hitched a lift back from Afghanistan with him.</li> </ul>http://digg.com/users/sikofitt//dugg#2008-08-27    Links for 2008-08-18 [Digg]http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheCrazyRobot/~3/369083652/duggTue, 19 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500http://digg.com/users/sikofitt//dugg#2008-08-18
  • Google is sued again.
    Software maker GraphOn has filed suit against search giant Google, alleging that Google's Base, AdWords, Blogger, Sites, and YouTube services violate GraphOn's patents.
  • Must. Eat. Ice cream! (pic)
    • ]]>    <ul> <li><a href="http://digg.com/tech_news/Google_is_sued_again">Google is sued again.</a><br/> Software maker GraphOn has filed suit against search giant Google, alleging that Google's Base, AdWords, Blogger, Sites, and YouTube services violate GraphOn's patents.</li> <li><a href="http://digg.com/comedy/Must_Eat_Ice_cream_pic">Must. Eat. Ice cream! (pic)</a></li> </ul>http://digg.com/users/sikofitt//dugg#2008-08-18    Links for 2008-08-17 [Digg]http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheCrazyRobot/~3/368478595/duggMon, 18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500http://digg.com/users/sikofitt//dugg#2008-08-17
  • MSNBC BREAKING NEWS [Pic]
    Try it yourself!
    • ]]>    <ul> <li><a href="http://digg.com/odd_stuff/MSNBC_BREAKING_NEWS_Pic_2">MSNBC BREAKING NEWS [Pic]</a><br/> Try it yourself!</li> </ul>http://digg.com/users/sikofitt//dugg#2008-08-17    Links for 2008-08-15 [Digg]http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheCrazyRobot/~3/366539521/duggSat, 16 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500http://digg.com/users/sikofitt//dugg#2008-08-15
  • Weird and Wonderful Gadgets That Never Quite Took Off
    It was the invention of the future - a tiny machine complete with its own map that would tell motorists which way to go. But this was no GPS, it was a wristwatch-style device equipped with minuscule maps. It is one of the labour and face-saving devices to go on display from a private collection of weird and wonderful gadgets from the past.
    • ]]>    <ul> <li><a href="http://digg.com/gadgets/Weird_and_Wonderful_Gadgets_That_Never_Quite_Took_Off">Weird and Wonderful Gadgets That Never Quite Took Off</a><br/> It was the invention of the future - a tiny machine complete with its own map that would tell motorists which way to go. But this was no GPS, it was a wristwatch-style device equipped with minuscule maps. It is one of the labour and face-saving devices to go on display from a private collection of weird and wonderful gadgets from the past.</li> </ul>http://digg.com/users/sikofitt//dugg#2008-08-15    Links for 2008-08-13 [Digg]http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheCrazyRobot/~3/364907939/duggThu, 14 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500http://digg.com/users/sikofitt//dugg#2008-08-13
  • USB 3.0 ready!
    In the has put the final piece for USB 3.0 hardware development in place.
  • Facebook in Real Life! Take a look.
    Yep that's right. Its Facebook in real life. Is it a total disaster or something really helpful? Well take a look and see for yourself.
    • ]]>    <ul> <li><a href="http://digg.com/hardware/USB_3_0_ready">USB 3.0 ready!</a><br/> In the has put the final piece for USB 3.0 hardware development in place.</li> <li><a href="http://digg.com/comedy/Facebook_in_Real_Life_Take_a_look">Facebook in Real Life! Take a look.</a><br/> Yep that's right. Its Facebook in real life. Is it a total disaster or something really helpful? Well take a look and see for yourself.</li> </ul>http://digg.com/users/sikofitt//dugg#2008-08-13    Links for 2008-08-03 [Digg]http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheCrazyRobot/~3/355425716/duggMon, 04 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500http://digg.com/users/sikofitt//dugg#2008-08-03
  • Yes,I'll certainly read the station name!
    Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.Any one?
  • Karma is a Bitch
    Young punk walks into a group of people and starts hitting everyone - male or female - he just doesn't care.. and then: karma.
    • ]]>    <ul> <li><a href="http://digg.com/odd_stuff/Yes_I_ll_certainly_read_the_station_name">Yes,I'll certainly read the station name!</a><br/> Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.Any one?</li> <li><a href="http://digg.com/odd_stuff/Karma_is_a_Bitch_2">Karma is a Bitch</a><br/> Young punk walks into a group of people and starts hitting everyone - male or female - he just doesn't care.. and then: karma.</li> </ul>http://digg.com/users/sikofitt//dugg#2008-08-03     Cool Unusual Information (Part 2) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheCrazyRobot/~3/341592655/cool-unusual-information-part-2 http://www.crazyrobotblog.com/posts/30/cool-unusual-information-part-2#comments Sun, 20 Jul 2008 19:43:39 +0000 The Crazy Robot http://www.crazyrobotblog.com/?p=30 H2O expands as it freezes and contracts as it melts, displacing the exact same amount of fluid in either state. So if the northern ice cap did melt, it would cause absolutely no rise in the level of the ocean.

    One hundred seven incorrect medical procedures will be performed by the end of the day today.

    The shockwave from a nitroglycerine explosion travels at seventeen thousand miles per hour.

    Marie Curie, the Nobel Prize-winning scientist who discovered radium, died on July 4, 1934, of radiation poisoning.

    If you yelled for eight years, seven months, and six days, you would have produced anough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

    If we had the same mortality rate as in the 1900s, more than half the people in the world today would not be alive.

    The tip of a bullwhip moves so fast that it breaks the sound barrier; the crack of the whip is actually a tiny sonic boom.

    When Beethoven was a child, he made such a poor impression on his music teachers that he was pronounced hopeless as a composer.

    Mozart’s real name was Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart.

    ]]>     http://www.crazyrobotblog.com/posts/30/cool-unusual-information-part-2/feed http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/http://www.crazyrobotblog.com/posts/30/cool-unusual-information-part-2     New Look For A Second http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheCrazyRobot/~3/326485960/new-look-for-a-second http://www.crazyrobotblog.com/posts/31/new-look-for-a-second#comments Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:39:17 +0000 The Crazy Robot http://www.crazyrobotblog.com/?p=31 There is a new faster loading look, for a second, as I learn to create a wordpress theme.

    That is all.

    -cr

    ]]>     http://www.crazyrobotblog.com/posts/31/new-look-for-a-second/feed http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/http://www.crazyrobotblog.com/posts/31/new-look-for-a-second     Linux keyboard shortcuts you should know about http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheCrazyRobot/~3/341592663/linux-keyboard-shortcuts-you-should-know-about http://www.crazyrobotblog.com/posts/27/linux-keyboard-shortcuts-you-should-know-about#comments Fri, 18 Apr 2008 20:08:46 +0000 The Crazy Robot http://www.crazyrobotmag.com/blog/posts/27/linux-keyboard-shortcuts-you-should-know-about Summary of most useful keyboard shortcuts. Take a printout for handy quick reference.

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    ]]>     http://www.crazyrobotblog.com/posts/27/linux-keyboard-shortcuts-you-should-know-about/feed http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/http://www.crazyrobotblog.com/posts/27/linux-keyboard-shortcuts-you-should-know-about     Cool Unusual Information (Part 1) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheCrazyRobot/~3/273450567/cool-unusual-information-part-1 http://www.crazyrobotblog.com/posts/25/cool-unusual-information-part-1#comments Sat, 12 Apr 2008 09:59:44 +0000 The Crazy Robot http://www.crazyrobotmag.com/blog/?p=25 Recently, I’ve bought two books. The Book of Useless Information, and The Ultimate Book of Useless Information: A Few Thousand More Things You Might Need to Know ( But ProbablyDon’t)

    Absolutely Obsessed with this “Useless Information”, I read the first book in 2 days, and the second book (shorter) in 1 day. There are three books, the third being the kinda of “greatest hits of The Books of Useless Information”, please pardon my bad memory. (I’m sure it was called something else.) Today, or well 2 1/2 hours ago was Friday, I did a search for strange facts, and I found a farrelly educated website with some facts. The only really problem I have with the site. And I’m not sure I could have ever looked at it longer than I did. And the main reason why this is number one… The best site is atrocious, ugly, poorly programmed, unmotivated, and sad. I can deal with that, most websites are. What I cannot deal with is the exclamation points at the end of every single fact. If it wasn’t for this the website would be awesome. I can’t imaging screaming facts at people, they seem annoyed enough at me for speaking them. But, … for the first part of “Cool Unusual Information”, I will read through and include some of these. At the end, I will include the website link for anybody that has a visual death wish, or perhaps has some kind of super human strength for this sort of design faux pas.

    The names of Popeye’s four nephews are Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye, and Poopeye!

    Poop-eye! ha!

    A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun’s surface.

    Taphephobia is the fear of being buried alive.

    Yeah, I got it.

    The Mint once considered producing doughnut-shaped coins.

    So What, China’s Got Them.

    Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark.

    The more I read these, the more I’m curious if this person has these books, or if this person is the writer.

    Dolphins sleep with one eye open.

    They left out the part where Dolphins, can’t stop .. If they stop moving they will suffocate. They sleep with one eye open, going in a circle, and half way through their sleep, they open the other eye, and switch directions.

    There wasn’t a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses.

    Really? No Ponies huh?.

    The starfish is one of the few animals who can turn it’s stomach inside-out.

    One of the others is a frog, … it throws up its stomach, then empties it with its hands, then swallows it again.

    Our stomach creates a new film around it every two weeks, if it didn’t we would digest our stomach.

    This I got from the book mentioned above.

    And this is where I stop with this website.

    You’ll eat about 35,000 cookies in a lifetime! Wow!

    One of the most irritating parts of this website (link below) is its over use of the Word wow, and its over use of exclamation points.

    Stay tuned, Part 2 soon.

    strangefacts.com

    Download audio file (dream_brother.mp3)

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    Download audio file (robotrock.mp3)

    ]]>     http://www.crazyrobotblog.com/posts/22/daft-punk-robot-rock/feed http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/http://www.crazyrobotblog.com/posts/22/daft-punk-robot-rock     Bandy Toaster http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheCrazyRobot/~3/273450569/bandy-toaster http://www.crazyrobotblog.com/posts/19/bandy-toaster#comments Sun, 06 Apr 2008 00:48:45 +0000 The Crazy Robot http://www.crazyrobotmag.com/~crazyrobot/blog/?p=19 Bandy Toaster on YouTube™

    ]]>     http://www.crazyrobotblog.com/posts/19/bandy-toaster/feed http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/http://www.crazyrobotblog.com/posts/19/bandy-toaster     Saudi man catches daughter on Facebook, Murders Her http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheCrazyRobot/~3/273450570/saudi-man-catches-daughter-on-facebook-murders-her http://www.crazyrobotblog.com/posts/14/saudi-man-catches-daughter-on-facebook-murders-her#comments Fri, 04 Apr 2008 08:48:55 +0000 The Crazy Robot http://www.crazyrobotmag.com/~crazyrobot/blog/2008.04.04/general/saudi-man-catches-daughter-on-facebook-murders-her/ A man from Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, beat and then fatally shot his daughter after catching her using Facebook to conduct a conversation with a man, according to reports.

    For her part, journalist Hidaya Darwich said to Al-Arabiya.net that Facebook had become a media phenomenon on the net, but that the decision to ban it did not mean that “our young women have been spared from the threat since we will soon start to read about websites which are similar to Facebook”.

    … Taken from arabmediasociety.com.

    The threat of Facebook.com? What about the more pressing threat of being murdered for talking to boys? [read more]

    ]]>     http://www.crazyrobotblog.com/posts/14/saudi-man-catches-daughter-on-facebook-murders-her/feed http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/http://www.crazyrobotblog.com/posts/14/saudi-man-catches-daughter-on-facebook-murders-her     Bill & Ted’s Completely Unnecessary Remake http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheCrazyRobot/~3/273450571/bill-teds-completely-unnecessary-remake http://www.crazyrobotblog.com/posts/13/bill-teds-completely-unnecessary-remake#comments Fri, 04 Apr 2008 08:45:14 +0000 The Crazy Robot http://www.crazyrobotmag.com/~crazyrobot/blog/2008.04.04/general/bill-teds-completely-unnecessary-remake/ Another classic science fiction franchise is getting the “reboot” treatment… but, this time… It’s a completely unexcellent idea!

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    ]]>     http://www.crazyrobotblog.com/posts/13/bill-teds-completely-unnecessary-remake/feed http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/http://www.crazyrobotblog.com/posts/13/bill-teds-completely-unnecessary-remake     Movie Director Says it is OK to Pirate His Movie http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheCrazyRobot/~3/273450572/movie-director-says-it-is-ok-to-pirate-his-movie http://www.crazyrobotblog.com/posts/12/movie-director-says-it-is-ok-to-pirate-his-movie#comments Fri, 04 Apr 2008 08:23:36 +0000 The Crazy Robot http://www.crazyrobotmag.com/~crazyrobot/blog/2008.04.04/general/movie-director-says-it-is-ok-to-pirate-his-movie/ Last weekend, a CAM version of the Norwegian movie “Lange Flate Ballær II” leaked onto several BitTorrent sites. Quite surprisingly, the producer doesn’t hold a grudge against the person who leaked the film. Instead, he thinks it’s an honor that someone took the effort to record it in a movie theater.

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    ]]>     http://www.crazyrobotblog.com/posts/12/movie-director-says-it-is-ok-to-pirate-his-movie/feed http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/http://www.crazyrobotblog.com/posts/12/movie-director-says-it-is-ok-to-pirate-his-movie     Really wonderful new WebSeries! Watch The Guild! http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheCrazyRobot/~3/273450573/really-wonderful-new-webseries-watch-the-guild http://www.crazyrobotblog.com/posts/11/really-wonderful-new-webseries-watch-the-guild#comments Fri, 04 Apr 2008 08:08:20 +0000 The Crazy Robot http://www.crazyrobotmag.com/~crazyrobot/blog/2008.04.04/media/videos/really-wonderful-new-webseries-watch-the-guild/ Another Wonderful Web Series on YouTube.com™
    Channel : http://www.youtube.com/watchtheguild

    Their website is Watch The Guild.

    Please check them out, even if its one video. Even if your not a gamer. I am not a gamer, but I’m still very excited about this new series.

    WebSeries about a group of online gamers.
    Created by and Starring: Felicia Day (Codex)
    Also Starring: Vincent Caso (Bladezz) Jeff Lewis (Vork) Amy Okuda (Tinkerballa) Sandeep Parikh (Zaboo) Robin Thorsen (Clara)
    Directed and Edited by: Jane Selle Morgan, Greg Benson
    Produced by: Kim Evey (Gorgeous Tiny Chicken Machine Show), Felicia Day and Jane Selle Morgan)

    Episodes

    The Guild Episode #1 - Wake-Up Call
    The Guild Episode #2 - Zaboo’d
    The Guild Episode #3 - The Macro Problem
    The Guild Episode #4 - Cheesybeards
    The Guild Episode #5 - Rather Be Raiding
    The Guild Episode #6 - Total Wipe
    The Guild Episode #7 - Home Invasion
    The Guild Episode #8 - Tipping Point

    Extras

    A Christmas Raid Carol
    The Guild Gag Reel - NSFW
    The Guild Thanks and Request!
    YouTube Award: The Guild DDR Video

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