[monochrom] Roboexotica 2008 on Boing Boing Video

Boing Boing video features Roboexotica 2008. Robots that serve cocktails. That's the premise behind the Roboexotica festival in Vienna, Austria, which unites two things cherished by nerds around the globe -- alcohol and DIY robotics. Eddie Codel and monochrom's Joh

[monochrom] q/talk, Di, 24.2.: Demokratie 2.0 - oder wenn Wahlcomputer für uns w ählen

die q/uintessenz lädt herzlich zum 23. q/talk: Demokratie 2.0 - oder wenn Wahlcomputer für uns wählen eVoting - eine Vision oder ein Albtraum -> http://www.quintessenz.at/d/00015556 Datum/Zeit: Di 24. Februar 2009, 20.00 (Einlass ab 19.00) Ort: Raum D / quartier21, QDK / Electric Avenue

Re: [monochrom] patterns

andreas stoiber wrote: The universe began as an infinitely large area of space filled with a liquid-like substance some have called "The Aether". Reality started out being completely static, still, and unchanging in nature, and had no begining or end in both linear time and space. Then, out o

[monochrom] Sleep Deprivation Could Cause Mental Illness

Take anyone with a psychiatric disorder and the chances are they don't sleep well. The result of their illness, you might think. Now this long-standing assumption is being turned on its head, with the radical suggestion that poor sleep might actually cause some psychiatric illnesses or lead p

[monochrom] Waiting for "The Final Plague"

We should be and we can be doing a much better job to predict and prevent pandemics. But the really bold idea is that we could reach a point—and this is a distant point in the future—where we becomcome so good at this that we really reach a point where we have the "final plague," and where

[monochrom] Obama's Elf

... he doesn"t want to be Obama's Elf anymore: http://www.monochrom.at/english/2009/02/obamas-elf.htm -- Posted By johl to monochrom at 2/20/2009 02:42:00 PM