Justin James' Critical Thinking blog examines IT issues from the standpoint of someone who doesn't drink the Kool Aid. There is also discussion of various programming/development matters, particularly multithreading and parallelism. http://www.formortals.com/Home/tabid/36/BlogId/5/Default.aspx en-US formortals@thesophist.com Admin@formortals.com Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:57:09 GMT Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:57:09 GMT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blog RSS Generator Version 3.4.0.39853 <p><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/LAtdsDTt__s" width="425" height="355" scale="ShowAll" loop="loop" menu="menu" wmode="transparent" quality="1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></p> <p><font size="2">These guys put together the "Robopault", a catapault using a giant robotic arm to sling bowling balls quite a distance with fairly high accuracy:</font></p> <p><a href="http://www.manapotions.com/robopult.html"><font size="2">http://www.manapotions.com/robopult.html</font></a></p> <p><font size="2">I know, it's a bit old (I found this in January, and kept forgetting to post it), but anyone who hasn't seen this should see it. It's the steampunk "build it yourself ethos" applied to construction equipment.</font></p> <p><font size=& http://www.formortals.com/Home/tabid/36/EntryID/19/Default.aspx formortals@thesophist.com http://www.formortals.com/Home/tabid/36/EntryID/19/Default.aspx#Comments http://www.formortals.com/Default.aspx?tabid=36&EntryID=19 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:03:00 GMT 0 http://www.formortals.com/DesktopModules/Blog/Trackback.aspx?id=19