Is there a sparkle in your eye?

If not, you can go buy one.

Robot girls
I had nothing to write about today (I've been busy with work), but I just read my Google news alert about robots and found this great little story about a girls' robotic team. My favorite part of the article:

Each team also had to choose a research topic to present to the judges. The Super Nova Girls chose to simulate life on Mars using a frog named Comet and plants.

You might have guessed I like robots, but I also think frogs are really neat. And I love when people give their pets cute names! So this story has everything I would ever want from the news. (You might think I'm kidding, but I mean that in all seriousness. I have had enough stories about war and death and sadness to last me a lifetime. I will take girly robot news any day.)

Majority Report

I'm listening to Janeane Garofalo's radio show again. I will keep listening as long as it keeps making me laugh out loud at least once an hour. (That's a better ratio than I usually get from TV.) Tonight, Tim Robbins is on! He's one of my all-time favorite celebrities.

How did I miss this?

While doing something work-related, I just stumbled across this website about an '80s TV show that involved kids answering video game trivia questions and playing video games on TV: Starcade!



The show feels unbelievably retro, but yet also strangely futuristic. It looks like if you join the site (which seems to be free) you can watch the pilot episode online. Maybe I'll check it out later.

Tron-rific

Hey, check out these tips for making your own Tron costume. (I found that on Boing Boing.) Here's an article I wrote for Popcrazy a long time ago about how to make Tron cupcakes.

Links, links, and more links


EFF has a new blog.



And here's an unofficial Google weblog.



And here's a site where robots tell jokes. None of the ones I listened to were very funny (and some weren't funny AT ALL), but hey, at least they're trying.



Here is a Japanese game thing. Drag the stuff around the outside onto the sphere. The order you choose affects how well it grows. I got obsessed with this one night, and it sucked away a bunch of my time, so be warned!

The Majority Report
Tonight I listened to Janeane Garofalo's new radio show. It's on every weeknight from 8-11, and you can listen online here. I suppose I could listen to it on a real radio since I'm in NYC, but my only radio is in the other room. So web it is.



I think the little robot on the right kind of looks like a boombox from the '80s. If she were real, I bet she'd like Janeane Garofalo, too.