How to sell, how to go bankrupt, how to shoot stuff
Memorable events in browsing history, week #13
Military
robots and the future of war
TED-talk with lots of robo-porn, short on in-depth information but
interesting nonetheless. Features the infamous "
Big
Dog" from Boston Dynamic's, a US-army commisioned robotic mule.
Follow the link to watch it move and most of all, receive an ass-kick -
the first time I "felt" sorry for a machine. Yes, its movement patterns
are that lifelike.
The
Rise and Fall of Thinking Machines Corporation (1995)
OK so this was first published nearly 15 years ago. BUT the behaviour
of the persons involved and "the way of the FAIL" seem as timely as
ever. They were trying to market supercomputers designed for research
in Artificial Intelligence, but bad business decisions and cheap
commodity hardware got the better of them.
Listen to your users
Marketing 101 concerning web sites, can be applied to anything.
How
to open Sentex keypad-access doors
Jesus Christ people, change your passwords. (***00000099#* if you want
to try it out right away)
Google’s
User Data Empire
The page refuses to load now (oohhh...), I remember a collection of reasons
to hate Google. Again.
Manga
Studio Debut 4
A 50-buck-app for creating comics that's used by Dave Gibbons of
Watchmen fame? Hmm.
40k
Red Orktober Killcroozer
OMFG, the most beautiful spaceship ever. "The greenskins have not
mastered the art of
space travel because they do not care where they are going, only that
they get to kill something when they get there." Ahem.
