The Banryu guard-robot. GK, Gizmodo's new Tokyo correspondent, managed to snap a few pics at Tokyu Hands of Sanyo's new Banryu guard-robot, which is designed to prowl around the house keeping an eye out for intruders. He says, “one of the cool things with the Banryu is that you can call it from your cellphone […]

Creative Commons Releases Hundreds of Titles Under its Founders Copyright. Creative Commons announced today the release of several hundred titles under its Founders' Copyright. The Silicon Valley nonprofit also opened the Founders' Copyright submission process to the public via its website. [Creative Commons: weblog] this is good news, I'd prefer people do a nice 5 […]

I get quite a few hits here from people looking for “pomes” pomes is what i stole from Kerouac's Pomes All Sizez which i read after mexicali blues. but anyway, if you are looking for pomes, here you will find some of what i think might be that, else, you might want to search forpoems […]

Innovation. This semester I'm involved in team teaching a third year subject which is known as Advanced Media Production. This is a subject we introduced a few years ago to bring together television and radio students in their final year to collaborate, and to provide them with the space to explore new ideas through the […]

What is DAC?. I'm currently the chair of this years DAC conference, and there's a ton of stuff I'm trying to achieve with the conference, and a ton of stuff (well, a few kilo's anyway) that i've learnt along the way, and I really need to start documenting some of this. For me, for others, […]

Miss Fembot to you The erotic futurist art of Bill Reichardt. Link – Xeni [the reverse cowgirl's blog] hmm, not only is xeni blogging this, but it reminds me somewhat of the film 'crash' in which she looks somewhat like the one character. anyway, j.g. ballard's books are must reads. as is reverse cowgirl

The New Chosen. The New Chosen. After reading about six Congressmen living in unbelievably cheap housing owned by a religious organization called “The Fellowship Foundation” (or “The Fellowship” or “The Foundation”) (via Fark), I became curious about the group. They sponsor the National Prayer Breakfast, but they'd rather you didn't know that – they go […]

Boing Boing is blogging ETCon, and O'Reilly is covering as well. Alan Kay, Howard Rheingold, Megnut and a bunch of other smart, interesting people… also on IRC chat… [www.gulker.com – words and pictures from Silicon Valley] nifty, now if someone would tell me what the irc server and channel is….

Job-Creation Arithmetic. Paul Krugman writes, The average American worker earns only about $40,000 per year; why does the administration, even on its… [EconLog: Library of Economics and Liberty] Statistics are why economics is called the dismal science. You can find some sort of number to justify totally opposite actions. ALthough the inaccuracy detailed here is […]

The Ohio legislature is considering a bill that wo …. The Ohio legislature is considering a bill that would prohibit state agencies from publishing any electronic information that is provided by two or more commercial publishers, even if the information was generated with taxpayer support and even if (or perhaps I should say, especially if) […]