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Action Figure Graveyard

Simulated Comic Product

JWZ Blog

TJIC Blog

SWARM blog

and now

Stick Figures in Peril  

This is groovy.

http://www.smoke-screen.co.uk/

corneredcat.com – An excellent guide to shooting for women… and men.

womenandguns.com/wfn/somany.html – A good buying guide for female shooters. Check out the rest of the site too.

pistolprowess.com/Choosing_a_Pistol.htm – another gun buying guide

calguns.net   – a good discussion forum for guns in California

gunbroker.com – The eBay of the gun world.

I was looking for a handgun that was:

• popular (easy to find parts for)
• relatively inexpensive
• a grip my girlfriend could handle as well as I

Springfield XD 9 – good (and pretty) except the grip is too large. The runner-up.

Beretta 92FS – What I ended up with :-)

tommysgunpack.com/ – holsters

dragunov.net/bay_area_ranges.htm Bay Area shooting ranges

http://www.sightm1911.com/ a site for the 1911 handgun

I don’t like Flickr because all the photos are … over there. They aren’t on people’s servers that can be backed up to personal archives. In time, all links to all content break.

Here’s a good way to save Flickr images back on your own computer. I tried Downloadr but it kept crashing on me.

flickrdown

And here is a local copy of the same (of course)

I was going to do a whole write-up on Maker Faire 2007 but there’s just not enough time in a day. Here’s what I’ve got…

HatManDo – a game system where participants move their characters on the screen by moving their bodies around a grid. They wear a hat with LEDs on it that are seen by a camera high up. The creator writes “send me your comments nye2 -at- email dat com”.

Puppy Mover Monorail – geeky cuteness.

Make your own Handheld Animated Butterflies – by Roger Sonntag. He came in from upstate New York to show these off. It uses an electromagnet to shoot butterflies or rings up a pole. The butterflies are actually pretty neat.

Charlotte put on this workshop in August. It was well attended and everyone enjoyed it… even the man who learned some male belly dance moves!

At Burning Man, under the man there were a couple preachy signs. Here’s my favorite.

Sorry it’s hard to read. I lost my digital camera at the Albertsons in El Cerrito on my way to Burning Man so all I had was my emergency film camera.

I thought it was ludicrous at the time but it got me thinking a lot.
The problem is: cell phones need a metal called tantalum to make their tiny capacitors, the largest supplies of tantalum are in the Democratic Republic of The Congo which is a fairly lawless place and gorillas and miners are treated poorly there.

Read it for yourself.

I created and submitted a video for the VIDA 10.0 international competition with help from my friends.

VIDA 10.0 is an international competition created to reward excellence in artistic creativity in the fields of Artificial Life and related disciplines, such as robotics and Artiftcial Intelligence.We are looking for artistic projects that address the interaction between “synthetic” and “organic” life”.

In previous years prizes have been awarded to artistic projects using autonomous robots, avatars, recursive chaotic algorithms, knowbots, cellular automata, computer viruses, virtual ecologies that evolve with user participation, and works that highlight the social side of Artificial Life.

You can make the video below play full-screen by clicking one of the buttons on the toolbar.

local version:

The video is available on Youtube as well. https://youtube.com/watch?v=pZpcGwWfRBE

A high quality version can be downloaded here (mpeg4, 1kbps, 74megabytes)

A (0.5 gb) DVD quality version of this video is also available for the asking.

Julia is building a whole little world on the internet.

Here’s her panda Debbie’s bedroom. She bought and placed every object in the room on Webkinz :-)

“A person in a uniform is merely an extension of another person’s will” – Philip Slater – according to RPG Motivational Slides