Day: December 3, 2003

This guy is completely nuts. He’s made an all-Lego Rubik Solver, which figures out the state of a Rubik’s cube with a web cam, and then systematically solves it.
Web link of note: JP Brown’s Lego site
(At http://jpbrown.i8.com/)

Wow. There are some seriously intense things you can make with Lego Mindstorms, including an infinitely complex computer – the book has an all-Lego implementation of the Turing Machine, complete with tape with flippable toggles!

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Actually this is one of two albums performed by the legendary patron saint of pimps.
His first one, published in 1985, was called “Born to Sing the Blues”

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experimental music; they perform in their van!

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Geek moment:

The web is on fire with accounts of the video of Super Mario 3 being beaten in 11 minutes, a game which traditionally takes several hours to complete. Keith Devens lists a number of mirrors of the video itself.

The video is very cool- the economy of movement is incredible, and not even the tiniest detail is overlooked- for example, the player “Morimoto” intentionally gets 3 mismatched cards, because if the cards had all been of one type, he would have gotten extra lives and a “congratulations!!” display, wasting precious seconds.

The way it was done was by running the game on an emulator at 1/30 speed, and saving and restoring repeatedly to “tune” the game to the absolute most streamlined game possible. The effort (and attention span) required to achieve this is incredible.

Oddly, there is a bit of a controversy over whether the game is “real” or not… even though the guy who did this, “Morimoto,” described this process on his EMU page at http://soramimi.egoism.jp/emu.htm. Here’s the Excite translation.

The web is on fire with accounts of the video of Super Mario 3 being beaten in 11 minutes, a game which traditionally takes several hours to complete.

David Cross is really damn funny. He was on Mr Show.

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No, it’s not a site about the Berkeley police department.

They spread the word about the rights we take for granted. They have a documentary / instructional video called “The Streets Are Watching”.
Web link of note: Berkeley Cop Watch
(At http://www.berkeleycopwatch.org/rights.htm)