Here are a couple of cool little robots I found. The first rides a unicycle:
The second one, named Salvador Dabot, draws portraits for you:
Come on now, who doesn’t need a little unicycle-riding robot rolling around the living room?
Monthly Archives: September 2008
Balanced rock art
September 24, 2008 – 9:44 am
Here’s some video of Bill Dan doing some amazing balanced rock art. Apparently a good number of people have seen him do this in person and he doesn’t use any tricks - he is just incredibly good at balancing stuff.
2008-09-14 - David Watson - Lessons From the Example Prayer
September 23, 2008 – 7:10 pm
2008-09-14 - David Watson - Lessons From the Example Prayer: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (10)Lessons From the Example Prayer
By David Watson
September 14, 2008
- Matthew 6:9-13
- Our Father
- Matthew 5:45 - God controls it all
- “Your will be done”
- Matthew 16:18-19 - Kingdom and church are interchangeable.
- At the time of this prayer, the church has not yet come. That happened in Acts 2, so it is incorrect to now pray for the kingdom to come.
- Psalms 103:19-20 - The angels obey in heaven. Jesus prays that men will obey the same way on earth.
- John 4:42; John 1:45 - the power of invitations to hear the gospel.
- “Give us this day our daily bread.”
- Wealth is not the priority.
- II Timothy 6:6-11 - the dangers of wealth
- “Deliver us from evil”
- James 4:7 - resist the devil
- Romans 7:7 - we must first know what sin is
- I Corinthians 10:13-14 - once you know what’s right, do it!
Intention scanning at airports
September 23, 2008 – 12:20 pm
Fox News has a very interesting article up about a new scanner system the Department of Homeland Security is testing. The scanner analyzes non-verbal cues from your body that show you might be up to no good. This sounds way over the top to me. Do you think this is a good idea? This reminds me of the famous quote from Benjamin Franklin: “Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.”
2008-09-07 - Jesse Jenkins - Immoral Worldliness: Dancing
September 22, 2008 – 8:32 pm
Immoral Worldliness: Dancing
By Jesse Jenkins
September 7, 2008
- Dancing has always excited lust between men and women.
- Dances in the Bible:
- Religious enthusiam - II Samuel 6:14; Jeremiah 31:4; II Samuel 18:6; Exodus 15:20
- This kind of dancing is not condemned.
- Idol worship - Exodus 32:19
- This kind of dancing is condemned.
- To appease fleshly appetites - Matthew 14:6-7
- This kind of dancing is condemned.
- Religious enthusiam - II Samuel 6:14; Jeremiah 31:4; II Samuel 18:6; Exodus 15:20
- Passages that prove this kind of dancing is sinful:
- Galatians 5:19-21 - lasciviousness is talking about the kind of dancing under consideration here.
- Matthew 6:13 - dancing is not fleeing temptation
- I Corinthians 10:32
- I Peter 4:3
- Ephesians 4:19
- Romans 13:13
- II timothy 2:22
- I Thessalonians 5:22
- Philippians 2:15; Matthew 5:16
- I Peter 3:15 - how can you give a defense from the dance floor?
- What others say
- “Most juvenile crime has its inception in the dance hall either private or public.” - J. Edgar Hoover
- What Paul said again: Galatians 5:19-21
2008-08-31 - Jesse Jenkins - Moral Worldliness
September 22, 2008 – 8:23 pm
Moral Worldliness
By Jesse Jenkins
August 31, 2008
Why WaMu is in trouble
September 22, 2008 – 11:56 am
In case you are not up to speed on all the financial problems caused by bad mortgages, this article gives a good explanation of some of the stuff Washington Mutual was doing that caused the problems. The fraudsters they gave loans to certainly are at fault as well, but there’s just no excuse to repeatedly give loans to people like this. Crazy. You always hate to see any company go under, but at some level, WaMu had to know this was a bad idea.
NASA’s new lunar toys
September 19, 2008 – 9:43 am
Here’s a cool little slideshow showing some of the new equipment NASA is working on for returning to the moon.
The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom
September 18, 2008 – 2:10 pm
I heard about this game from a podcast and it looks pretty interesting. The idea is that you are trying to steal pies hidden in a 2D world, but you have to bend time to do so. You record yourself running and jumping around, then play back the recording and work together with your former self (or selves) to complete the level. It’s a little mind bending! Oh, and the whole thing looks like a black and white movie from the 20s. The website is here.
Israeli poop scoop laws
September 18, 2008 – 9:02 am
Now this is just bizarre. A city in Israel is running a trial program where they take DNA samples of people’s dogs and then match that against poop found on the street and in trash cans. They reward people who pick up after their dogs and punish those who don’t. They are serious about this over there! The bummer about the whole thing is the guy that gets to analyze all the “samples”. Blech.