Archive for October, 2010
Suicide Girls are hot alternative chicks, bedecked with tattoos, piercings, and little else. The site is *not* safe for work, prudes, normals, and the immature. If this post, or anything else on this site offends you, go away.
There’s only one month left to compete in Google’s Planet Wars.
Planet Wars is based on Galcon. You can play the Flash version to get an idea of the goals.
That does it. Now I want a mini-me playing drums. That I don’t know how to play drums is inconsequential.
via @holychic
FreakAngels by Warren Ellis and Paul Duffield. Fooking brilliant.
By Warren Ellis, writer of FreakAngels:
“How It Works
I still get asked with appalling regularity “where my ideas come from.”
Here’s the deal. I flood my poor ageing head with information. Any information. Lots of it. And I let it all slosh around in the back of my brain, in the part normal people use for remembering bills, thinking about sex and making appointments to wash the dishes.
Eventually, you get a critical mass of information. Datum 1 plugs into Datum 2 which connects to Datum 3 and Data 4 and 5 stick to it and you’ve got a chain reaction. A bunch of stuff knits together and lights up and you’ve got what’s called “an idea”.
And for that brief moment where it’s all flaring and welding together, you are Holy. You can’t be touched. Something impossible and brilliant has happened and suddenly you understand what it would be like if Einstein’s brain was placed into the body of a young tyrannosaur, stuffed full of amphetamines and suffused with Sex Radiation.
That is what has happened to me tonight. I am beaming Sex Rays across the world and my brain is all lit up with Holy Fire. If I felt like it, I could shag a million nuns and destroy their faith in Christ.
From my chair.
See, this is the good bit about writing. It’s what keeps you going. It’s the wild rush of “shit, did I think of that?” with all kinds of weird chemicals shunting around your brain and ideas and images and moments and storyforms all opening up snapsnapsnap in your mind, a mass of new and unrealised possibilities.
It’s ten past two in the morning, and I’m completely wired, caught up in the new thing, shivering and laughing and glowing in the dark. Just as well it’s the middle of the night. No-one would be safe from me right now. I could read their minds and take over their heartbeats with a glare.
Faster than the speed of anyone.
That’s how it works.”
‘Developed by CLM BBDO, the ad features the slogan “make your engine an athlete of the road.”’
via singularity hub
We may have to modify our flying robot monkey minion design…
The Stanford/Berkeley Testbed of Autonomous Rotorcraft for Multi-Agent Control (STARMAC): http://hybrid.eecs.berkeley.edu/starmac/
“Official Tron light bike suits let you get into the game 091ShareFace it: youre never going to ride a lightcycle in the world of Tron. Its just never going to happen, as Tron is a movie and therefore not real. But what you can do is buy one of these sweet Tron Legacy official replica light bike suits and get as close as youll ever come.Sure, for $995 youre looking at a pretty expensive set of leather clothes. But come on, they look great. And if you trick out your motorcycle enough, it could look pretty cool. And really, even if you look stupid youll be wearing a helmet, so no one will know its you.”
UD Replicas via Gizmodo
via Official Tron light bike suits let you get into the game | DVICE.
“Google AI Challenge!
Thats right, the Google AI Challenge is back! Are you excited to get started? So are we!
Here is the timeline:
September 1, 2010: programming materials released to the public.
Friday Sept 10, 2010: official start date. You will be able to create an account and see your ranking.
Saturday Nov 27, 2010: submission deadline. No submissions will be accepted after 11:59 PM.
Wednesday Dec 1, 2010: official results and final rankings will be released. Who will be the winner? Will it be you?!
Ready to get started? Download a starter pack, and then follow the five minute tutorial.
Got questions? Ask them in our forum or join us on #aichallenge on irc.freenode.net”
via Google AI Challenge.
Premium memberships to http://aigamedev.com/ awarded as prizes.
c# starter package is here: http://ai-contest.com/starter_packages.php
user interface designer & developer, graphic artist, 3d animator, hobby-roboticist.
master of science from georgia tech in information design & technology.
