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Olin in the press

I read the NYT online, get Google alerts on Olin College, and have received a lot of email pointing me at this NYT article about Olin College, and the requisite Slashdot story about the story. Yes, we get lots of press. Yes, most of it is the same. Read on …

The randomness of movies

As a Netflix.com subscriber, I recently put the Netflix New Releases RSS feed into my reader. Wow. I never knew how many movies were made, and then subsequently released on DVD. My guess is about a crapton. And before you go thinking that these are all Transformers: The Movie quality …

Racist MP3 player

I don’t have one, but this company does. Holy crap. Thanks to FSJ for showing us this. And for relevance, check out the top 10 unintentionally worst company URLs, and this post with a few more. Great Sunday reading. Update: Seems TrekStore has had a change of heart. Via Gizmodo, …

Hipster Olympics

Remember when I asked, “where would we be without the Internet” (or something like that)? The same can be applied to cheap DV cameras and an acerbic sense of humor. Check out the Hipster Olympics at YouTube. Great stuff. Goes down well with some articles on new (and old) yuppies.

MIT/Olin in to next phase of DARPA Grand Challenge

DARPA made the announcement at around 11:30am today, and it looks like the MIT/Olin team is in to the semi finals! (Press release [PDF]) That means we get to go out to the former George AFB in Victorville, CA, on October 26-31, 2007, for the final qualification event. The actual …