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Looking for intellectual inspiration?

www.BostonScienceAndEngineeringLectures.com is a time-sorted list of lectures going on in and around the Boston area. Reading through the list of lectures reminds me how much I miss being on a college campus every day. This site might be good to check out if you happen to be near a campus, particularly MIT, and have some time to indulge in a lecture.

Teaser: Sept 28, 11a-1p. Steve Wozniak will discuss and sign copies of his autobiography, IWoz. MIT: 50, Morss Hall. Details

[Got this link from Josh Simons.]

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What Would My Mother Say?

My mother needs some good old-fashioned linkage to her newly-launched website.

She hosts a radio call-in show on Stanford University's KZSU (90.1 FM) called What Would Your Mother Say?. It airs live on Thursdays, 5-6PM, PST.

If you know any college-aged kids who are looking for motherly advice, but don't really want to ask their own mother for it, tell them to ask my mom! She and her panel of mothers are ready and waiting.

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More Cookie Fun

Ever wish you could harness the heat collecting in your car and do something useful with it? You can! You can bake cookies on your dashboard! "When you open the door to that car, it's like, oh, my God. It's a wonderful smell."

This comes from a very cool blog called Street Use:

This site features the ways in which people modify and re-create technology. Herein a collection of personal modifications, folk innovations, street customization, ad hoc alterations, wear-patterns, home-made versions and indigenous ingenuity. In short -- stuff as it is actually used, and not how its creators planned on it being used. As William Gibson said, "The street finds its own uses for things." I welcome suggestions of links, and contributions from others to include in this compendium. -- KK

Another cool blog, in the same creative, yet domestic, vein, is called CRAFT. It is an off-shoot from the new CRAFT Magazine, published by O'Reilly, the makers of MAKE magazine.

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Robot Hall of Fame 2006 Inductees

The Robot Hall of Fame just inducted their newest class of Robots. The RHF commemorates the contributions of fictional and real robots, and the induction ceremony is a great mix of sci-fi buffs and robotics researchers.

I attended the 2004 induction ceremony and got to shake hands with both C3-PO (Anthony Daniels) and ASIMO. Lots of fun! This year I'm most excited about Gort, because that is the name of my home computer. But AIBO is definitely another worthy inductee.

This article gives a full description of the robots and the ceremony: Robot Hall Of Fame Inducts Gort, Sony's AIBO.

You can nominate your favorite robot for induction here!

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Sun Labs Dog cleans up Sun.com's Website

The dog of Sun Labs researcher Nicole Yankelovich is responsible for cleaning up Sun.com's website. Pretty funny!

Stale Web Content Sniffed Out by Pet Dog

I think this alone justifies the existence of a corporate research lab!
(joke, joke)

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