Michael Parekh provides a great summary of a early 2005 speech by Bill Gates to the National Education Summit on High Schools:
Let me translate Mr. Gates’s words: “If we don’t fix American education, I will not be able to hire your kids.” I consider that, well, kind of important. Alas, the media squeezed a few […]
Archive for July, 2005
What Bush Does Not Know
As the quagmire in Iraq continues is the American public awakening to the deception enacted by the current administration.
Bob Herbert writes:
“In one of the great deceptions in the history of American government, President Bush insisted to a nation traumatized by the Sept. 11 attacks that the invasion of Iraq was crucial to the […]
A Hybrid Perhaps
I am considering a new car this year or next. One of the big points to consider is fuel cost over the next few years. I believe that we will look back on the early 21st century as a time of cheap gas. With that in mind I am looking at the available and soon […]
Robots Controlling The Soccer Terrorists
What is the immediate threat that require German stadiums to be patrolled by robots? And why do the robots keep impersonating lawyers? Conspiracy theories abound, but I think it is the aliens.
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Dell Laser Printer 1100 Reviewed
BIOS Tech Guides has reviewed Dell’s brand-new low-cost laser printer. The printer is low cost but it delivers high performance and good print quality. There are some problems, no network connection, no auto duplexing, no MacOSX support and on 2MB of RAM. But for the price, this greyscale laser printer is tough to beat. Hopefully […]
HR-2 Mini-Robot
Almir Heralic at the Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden has created a cool little robot. It looks huge, but don’t be fooled by the picture. This little robot has full fluid movement, a neural net, speech functions and stereo vision coupled with facial recognition and tracking capabilities. Now how to get one? Oh, be […]
Beam Me Up
I always hoped that Scotty would find a way to lock himself in an eternal transporter loop…alas I guess he never figured it out. We’ll miss you Scotty….
As seen on Wil Wheaton’s site. Read the geek commentary at Slashdot.
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Wireless Video Sender Camera Robot
A wireless, mobile camerabot.
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Four Tank Treads
I have gone back into the RobotThoughts Lego Robot Database and pulled out some of my favorite Robot designs. This Lego Mindstorms chassis was one of my favorite and most versitle. It had good clearance and lots of tourque.
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July 2005 Pictures and Movies
The July 2005 Pictures include the retirement of the Tom’s Snack truck, the 4th of July Fireworks extravaganza and Anna’s birthday.
Also, check out the whole directory of movies we took of the fireworks and other July events.
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