…Mega Man!
Well, not quite. This is Zeno, and he can see, hear, speak, and act when wirelessly networked with his control computer. Check out this video of him in action. He also has a blog.
Doctor Wily’s apparently been busy also. The little propellor dudes…
…are now apparently available in kit form for the spying upon of neighbors. Two thoughts: one, get automatic blinds, and, two, what about the little helmet dudes?
Indeed. I’ve been so busy lately that I missed my own Bloggaversary! Let’s have some electronic cake and ice cream to celebrate.
As amusing as it would have been, Mechanical Package was not a song sung to the tune of Detachable Penis. It was actually magazine that ran from 1931-1932. Each of its four issues included a kit to build something such an an electric motor. The first issue, available online, included the article, "A Modernistic Den for Bachelors:"
The Editors of the Mechanical Package Magazine frankly admire the new style of contemporary interior decorating, and have kindly commissioned me to design a series of men’s rooms which the man who has the creative ability can build for himself at a very low cost.
If you run MyBlog under Joomla and you experience symptoms such as the JavaScript error, "tinyMCE is not defined" or your Save buttons don’t work, you may wish to reinstall the TinyMCE Compressor as described in this forum post.
And from the I-didn’t-know-that-had-a-name department, here’s the TV Tropes Wiki.
The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling.
When I was a kid, I told my teacher that I wanted to build a robot that kids could send to school when they were sick. It would have a TV camera that would allow them to watch the lessons of the day. Naturally, the teacher’s response was, "I’m not teaching a robot." Well, many, many years later, someone finally did it. Well, something similar, anyway– he uses his robot to telecommute.
The Generator Blog‘s mission is to catalogue the various Random Whatever generators fluttering about on the Web. I’m tempted to blow the dust off the Star Trek Episode Generator I wrote in Pascal, way back when, and maybe translate it into something that computers still speak.
If you’re having trouble with the vqadmin ACL file, a quick Google search will bring up result after result saying things like, "now customize your ACL file. I won’t explain it as the comments in the file cover it." I disagree. I later found this and thought I’d discovered the answer:
Here’s a quick explanation of the access lists:
Format: <user group> <access restrictions> <users>
user group: Any single alphanumeric word you wish. It’s purely for human recognition (except for the "default" group)
access restrictions: See vqadmin.acl for a list of these and what they mean.
users: Comma seperated list of users. When a user logs in via Apache’s htaccess system, the CGI will recognize them. If they don’t belong to any of the groups they are set to the default permissions.
Maybe I’m still missing something, but:
admins * joe, bob
doesn’t work, whereas
joe * joe
bob * bob
does.
ERIK
