Posted by Dick
on November 10, 2005
I got CUPS working just in time.
Ceri found a load of 3D printers . I knew this was amazing for prototyping in polymer, but some people are printing metal in 3D.
You can already rent time on a hardprinter, design stuff in CAD and upload it.
The kit isn’t obscenely expensive – any biggish company should be able to afford one. Think of the potential:
- IKEA could put Allen keys on their website for you to print off.
- the post office could go and piss up a rope
- as of yesterday, budding Reanimators can also print organs (for that ‘just buried’ freshness).
- unspeakable things can crawl out of such a portal and pour themselves into your lungs
- oh sorry, didn’t I mention Dennis Hong and his work on ‘whole-skin locomotion’ robots ?
That’s a bit of a mouthful, so let’s just call it a fucking ROBOTIC SHOGGOTH.
Have a look at the video. At first glance it may resemble a dild cucumber skidding across the floor, but don’t be fooled. The last few seconds clearly show it squirting itself through a hole and trying to chew his fist off. Eldritch as fuck.
Brings new meaning to ‘Internet Worm’.
All your workgroup printers spitting out A4 saying ’PwnZored!!!!’ is one thing, but when they start spawning entities hellbent on your destruction, it’s time for a service pack.
Posted by Dick
on August 30, 2005
I’m sat here listening to Frank Black s first (and best) album for the first time in almost a decade, and browsing New Scientist.
They’ve got one of those hideous Flash banner ad trainwrecks that makes you want to browse it in lynx. Seriously, I can’t even see half the site from Ubuntu with Firefox. One thing I did just see was a gooooooogle ad for The Surface of The Sun. The link text says ‘the suns surface is made of metal and conducts electricity!’.
I followed the links, and the images are from the SOHO observation satellite, and are probably pukka. I mean, red giants synthesize iron don’t they, and ’metal’ is a pretty wide category.
My bullshit detector is on the blink at the minute, and I don’t know whether newscientist get to vet the ads gooooooooogle put on their site. For all I know its’ another ‘Time Cube’ site. (Considering I have a degree in this stuff, that’s a bit worrying. Like I said, I’m a bit short of sleep this month.)
What? The point? Oh yeah, sorry. We were at a barbecue with my 2 year old over the weekend and she and her mate were playing a game which involved catching falling stars and eating them. I asked her what they tasted like, and she said ‘metal’. Just like Jesus .
Oooh! I love this one!
Paaaarry the wind – high, loooow….