Tag Archives: Robots

LEGO robot solves Rubik’s Cube in 5 seconds

If that headline didn’t make your head explode, you can get the full scoop on this mind-blowing event over at Singularity Hub.

Friday Links: Some Webchallenge advice & assorted goodness

The Chicago Webchallenge is this weekend and the Minnesota nerds are making their way down to the Windy City to join their Illini-brethren to make websites for needy nonprofits. Good luck to everyone involved!

• If this is your first time participating in the a webchallenge, here’s some advice from past participants. Also, take a look at a few videos so you know what you’ve gotten yourself into. If you want even more, you can read the entire Webchallenge category. Have fun!
• Meet the class of 2015: your future coworkers and customers.
• Scrabble Players ‘know’ more words, but not necessarily what they mean.
• How browsers work.
• Where’s WALL-E like Waldo, except with a ton of awesome robots.
• The questionable birth of Times New Roman
• How Marty and Doc became friends in Back to the Future. I always wondered why they were hanging out together.
• The Nike Swoosh turns 40.

Great Moments in Nerdery: Carleton students turn observatory into R2-D2

via Julio Ojeda-Zapata who has links to more pictures for your perusal.

Friday Links: Advice for marketers, agencies, and designers

• Agencies need to think like software companies
• It’s October now, time to start thinking Halloween. So I present you Dogs in StarWars costumes
• Dear Marketers: YOU don’t decide what goes viral. Any marketer who asks for a viral anything should, well, they should be flicked in the ear. Hard. (and I only say that because I’ve wasted months of my life in meetings with people who wanted us to create something that would “go viral.”
• Sometimes the commercials are hard to spot. Brand references as jokes on Jay Leno
• MIMA Summit goes gadget happy.
• Pancake making robot!
• How to effectively respond to design criticism (they don’t suggest flicking people in the ear).
• In the interest of fair and balanced linking: 1984 spoof casts Apple as the villain

Profiles in Nerdery: Brendan Beckham, sensitivity training drop-out

• Astrological Sign: Raging Bull.
• Time at the Nerdery: 1 year, 5 months.
• Area of expertise: Schmoozing with our prospects and clients, account management, and drinking.
• When people ask you what you do, how do you respond: I punch them in the face.
• Favorite kinds of projects to work on: Large projects with aggressive timelines and a whole lotta scope creep.
• What one thing about The Nerdery surprises people the most when you tell them about it: We see no harm in a little innocent waterboarding from time to time
• Seven dream Jeopardy Categories: 1) Bare Knuckle Boxing; 2) Stand Up Comedy; 3) Who Sharted?; 4) New Ways to Injure Alex Trebek; 5) Pelosi at the Gallows; 6) People I Hate; 7) The Little Orange Cap
• Favorite Fictional Nerd: That little robot chick on Small Wonder, Vicky.
• According to the Wikipedia entry on Nerd, some nerds show a pronounced interest in subjects which others tend to find dull or complex and difficult to comprehend, or overly mature for their age, especially topics related to science, disambiguation, mathematics and technology. Do you know what disambiguation is: No, and besides, that word sucks.