Scientists Show Robots Evolving to Exhibit Good & Evil (A Galaxy Classic)

http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2010/05/a-robot-hitler-scientists-show-robots-evolving-to-exhibit-good-evil-a-galaxy-classic.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheDailyGalaxyNewsFromPlanetEarthBeyond+%28The+Daily+Galaxy%3A+News+from+Planet+Earth+%26+Beyond%29

Human Tetris: object tracking on an 8-bit microcontroller - Hack a Day

http://hackaday.com/2010/05/15/human-tetris-object-tracking-on-an-8-bit-microcontroller/

Music Technology Now and in the Future

http://tv.theiet.org/channels/news/8289.cfm
I attended this last week: (Visit the webcast to see a video of the meeting)

Music Technology Now and in the Future David M Howard Any arbitrary sound can be created using technology and of course, electronically created sounds can be used to make music. "Connecting" the player, composer or user into the sound creation system involves the provision of an interface with which a musician can make music in a performance situation. This lecture will consider the needs of the musician in terms of both sound creation, sound modification and sound real-time control and it will illustrate this with interfaces from the past and present as well as some that might well be seen in the future. 2010-05-11 00:00:00.0 News Channel >> go to webcast>> recommend to friend

This chap (mentioned in the video) was sitting behind me

Video: Is Steve Durnin's D-Drive the holy grail of infinitely variable transmissions?

http://www.gizmag.com/steve-durnin-ddrive-d-drive-infinitely-variable-transmission-geared/15088/

The People's Manifesto: Mark Thomas and friends' suggestions for UK political reform - Boing Boing

http://www.boingboing.net/2010/05/14/the-peoples-manifest.html

BBC News - Fungus hits Afghan opium poppies

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/8679203.stm

Engineers Diagnosing Voyager 2 Data System - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2010-151
Hmm, so 20 yrs flight / 12Hr 43m light comms becomes a problem - Is it due to effects of it's position (i.e. its age and/or "something" out there (some boundary/layer/surrounding/ aliens) causing interference )?
What wouldn't I give to be on the debug-team for that?!

Boing Boing: Reverse engineering the perfect (or worst) TED talk -

http://www.boingboing.net/2010/05/12/reverse-engineering-1.html



http://get-tedpad.com/

HOWTO teach kids to be makers - Boing Boing

http://www.boingboing.net/2010/05/08/howto-teach-kids-to.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29

Ted Talks: Simon Sinek: How Great Leaders Inspire Action