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Bookmarks for August 30th through August 31st

These are my links for August 30th through August 31st:

• Online Tab Player | Songsterr – Cool guitar tab site with a Flash play along tool
• COMMAND & CONQUER RED ALERT 3 – Red Alert 3 trailer, and C&C Red Alert (old school) Free download.
• Real Life Comics – The Online Comic ©1999-2008 Greg Dean –
• Amazon.com: Canon EOS 50D 15.1MP Digital SLR Camera with EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM Standard Zoom Lens: Camera & Photo – Canon EOS 50d Amazon Page is up with a "notify me" button.

Bill Maher about Sarah Palin – The Maverick and the MILF

YouTube – Bill Maher about Sarah Palin.

Bookmarks for August 29th

These are my links for August 29th from 21:33 to 23:38:

• Robot Kits, Robotics, and Toy Robots
  Robot Kits at Carl’s Electronic Kits
• Amazon.com: I-ROBO Tarmi V Robotic Line Tracer (Robot Kit): Toys & Games
  $35 – Line follower
• Walking Robot Kit
  $33 – sensors
• Mechanical Tiger
  $16 -Hyper Line Tracker!
• Turbo 3000 Robot Kit
  $15 – No tools.
• Symet Solar Cell and Motor Parts Bundle: 1381
  $15
• Amazon.com: ROBOT DUCK KIT: Toys & Games -
  $17
• Solarbotics – SolarSpeeder Kit #RK-EDU-KSS
  $27.50
• Solarbotics – Mousebot Kit (Blue) #RK-EDU-KHM-B
  $40
• Solarbotics – Mousebot Kit (White) #RK-EDU-KHM-W
  $40
• OWI, Inc. – Hyper Line Tracker – Garage Sale Item! #RK-EDU-9737
  $40 – Hyper Line Tracker

What Do You Do?

What do you tell people when they ask what you do?  I’ve most recently answered that I am a Web Developer.  For some strange reason this leads them to ask: “Hey, can you fix my email?”  I usually just answer with “um, no.” and change the subject.

I’ve got a couple of easier answers these days.  I’ll occasionally tell them I’m a blogger, but that gets strange looks, and or the above mentioned email question.  The most recent and certainly my favorite answer now is that I build robots.  While that isn’t really my job, I do get to build robots, and I have access to our lab after work and on weekends so it isn’t a lie.  So far only one person has asked me to fix their robot.

Bookmarks for August 28th through August 29th

These are my links for August 28th through August 29th:

• DVICE: Solar icemaker: get the sun to keep things cool for a change – More information on the solar ice maker.
• MAE Solar – Totally cool self contained solar ice-maker. No, seriously, it makes 14 pounds of ice per day with zero carbon emissions.
• Amazon.com: Canon EOS 40D 10.1MP Digital SLR Camera with EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM Standard Zoom Lens: Electronics – The Canon 40d, $1145 at Amazon, will the price drop now that the 50d is announced?
• OMG Posters! – Cool Blog
• Magento – Magento Team: Can we have better [or any] comments on Resolved bugs, please! – Suggestions and Feedback – Open Source eCommerce Evolved – Brandon's request for more communication.

Vice President I'd Like to What?

It sure didn’t take long for someone to think Palin was hot and create VPILF.com.

Also, heard on twitter earlier: Does McCain know that if Palin gets hurt in a car accident that he can’t trade her in for a richer, younger, hotter VP?

Also, did you see she seriously thinks creationism should be taught in science class?
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/08/mccains-vp-want.html

It Makes my Taco Pop!

YouTube – Shawn Johnson, Paul Hamm and Morgan Hamm Ortega Commercial.

It makes her taco pop!

Aside from the innuendo, this is a really bad commercial.

Mythbusters draw a MONA LISA is 80 nanoseconds!

YouTube – Mythbusters draw a MONA LISA is 80 nanoseconds! at NVISION.

This is almost as good as the moon hoax episode.  Y’all did watch that, right?  Conspiracy Theorists: Zip.0, Man on Moon: 5

New Life for an Old Domain

As some of you know, I also write (wrote) for a blog at lr2.com.  It was a reasonably popular links blog when I cared to post a few times a day.  In the last two years I have all but ignored the site, and traffic has fallen steadily as a result.

Since I am already stretched to write enough content for here, and GeekDad, I have decided to re-purpose lr2.com as a short url site.  I realize there are a lot of sites out there that do this, but I think there is room for one more.  It should run nearly maintenance free, and eventually provide enough network traffic and ad views to help pay for my web hosting.

So if you need some URLs shortened, give it a shot, and feel free to use them in your emails, IMs, and blog posts.

Bookmarks for August 27th

These are my links for August 27th from 08:11 to 18:32:

• Magic Sink: Mysterious Axolute Sink Works Without a Drainpipe -
• Design: The Fossil Washbasin Will Hypnotize You Into Being Late For Work -
• Gadgets: Erosion Sink Brings Geology to the Bathroom -
• RoboJenny -
• WE THE ROBOTS – A very cool comic.
• BotJunkie -
• Trossen Robotics Blog -
• robots.net – Robot news and Robotics Info -
• ROBOTS DREAMS -