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Daily del.icio.us Bookmarks for 04/07/08 07 April 2008 at 3:03 pm by 669 views

These are my daily “Good to Know” links for 04/07/08 … please enjoy:

Meet ApriPoko, Toshiba's channel surfing helper-bot | Engadget

ApriPoko is capable of learning how to control electronics by watching you and asking questions about your behavior. When you use an infrared device, the robot senses the signal and asks the user "What did you just do?"

MySong: Automatic Accompaniment for Vocal Melodies | Microsoft Research

MySong, introduced in our CHI 2008 paper, automatically chooses chords to accompany a vocal melody, allowing a user with no musical training to rapidly create accompanied music.

CERN creates a new super-fast internet, invites tons of people to a deathmatch | Engadget

Apparently, when CERN isn't colliding particles (and ripping massive holes in the space-time continuum), it's busy working on a new "internet" which will be 10,000 times faster than our current version. The project is known as "the grid."

Gator blood touted as potential source of lifesaving drugs | Palm Beach Post

Someday an alligator might save your life. Researchers in Louisiana say they've discovered unique antibiotic proteins in the blood of American alligators that can kill a wide variety of deadly bacteria, halt the spread of common infections and perhaps ev

Magic Pen by Alejandro Guillen | Fizzlebot

This is pretty much just an online clone of Crayon Physics, but is pretty fun!

Come back for more links tomorrow!!

+ For Science! By 12 March 2008 at 6:05 am 664 views No Comments

Welp, I’ve just found my next T-Shirt purchase:

Science Robot

Check out the other designs here at Wear Science. Now I’m off to count pennies to use for the shirt buying!

+ MC Chris @ The Waiting Room w/ The Family Radio By 19 October 2007 at 10:07 am 513 views No Comments

I was too wiped out by the time I got home last night to make my post, so I’m doin’ it this morning… that’s right, MC Chris rocks so rough I couldn’t blog.

So, the concert was scheduled to start at 9:00 PM, but we didn’t get started until 10:00 PM (the rumor floating around was that they had other bands that were supposed to play, but they didn’t show… I don’t know if it’s true, but it’s a good rumor). First up we had local Omaha boys “The Family Radio“… they were bad ass! First of all, their goal was to beat Final Fantasy VII before the end of their set… they didn’t accomplish their goal, but they were able to beat Jenova, and as they were cleaning up their set and getting ready for MC Chris they did manage to defeat Sephiroth. As far as their music goes, it was highly energetic and was just great… if they put their mind to it they could really go places (although they did say this was their last concert for a long time, so who knows what will happen). Check out some of the shots I took below.

This is how you know a show is gonna rock:

Squaresoft!
Final Fantasy!!
Sephi Sephi Sephiroth!

Now for the band:

The Family Radio
The Family Radio
The Family Radio
The Family Radio
The Family Radio

So after we were primed by the Family’s block rockin’ beats, it was time for our main course… oh FUCK, it’s goddamn MC Chris!

Oh fuck!

Unfortunately the MC is still recovering from his Hard Drive accidents and didn’t have all of his music loaded up on his Laptop, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t the best show ever! He opened with a great mix of the Mortal Combat theme and the Tiny Toons theme song (once you get it in your head, you can’t get it out) and followed up with most of his popular songs (Geek, Fette’s Vette, FTW, I Want Candy, etc). The audience participation was great… we learned some great moves such as “rap hands” and were ordered to do the robot and throw up gang signs, can’t beat that! Here’s a couple shots of the MC doin’ his thang:

MC Chris
MC Chris
MC Chris
MC Chris
MC Chris

Excellent! After his set he came down to the audience to shake hands and sign whatever we wanted. I got one of his last copies of Dungeon Master of Ceremonies (all sold out forevers now) and had him sign it. I also got a great shot with him… yeah, we be badass rebels, yo:

MC Chris + Me!

He promised he’d be back in the spring, so I look forward to that. Now I need to rest, because I’m running on just a few hours of sleep and am still sick… ugh! Peace out!