Robots and music

I honestly don't recall what it was on Youtube that started this line of viewing, but I came across some interesting robot fight videos after seeing some interesting work with Lego's new Mind Storm toy (learning apparatus?).  Here is a sample of what I saw:

That's one tough little guy.
Anyone remember Battle Bots?  Because it was pretty much awesomebajawsome.  (Note: Awesomebajawsome is not actually a word.)

I found a few others, including some clips of Robot Jox.  Yeah, there's a movie I'm sure most of you haven't seen or even heard of before.  Don't lie, you didn't even know it was a movie.  Classic film really, I see it going down....well, yeah.

In case you are interested, here are a few clips of the Lego Mind Storm videos that started me off on my YT bonanza:

Clip1 and
Clip2

That second clip is a crazy one.  Someone built a little (relatively) lego car manufacturing plant. Kind of a slow video, but fascinating I thought.

--Robots in music as well--

Well, at least as far as the creation of it goes.  I decided that today I would watch some Daft Punk videos.  So I typed in Daft Punk and saw some of their music videos.  I also came across some weird phenomenon whereby some people have written on themselves...a lot, and choreographed movements and/or a dance in order to present their body lyrics in time with Daft Punk music.  So far I've seen a few whole body clips (to the same song it would seem) and a few hand/finger clips.  You Daft Punk fans are an interesting bunch.  Here's a few clips, and N.B., the body one is probably NSFW.  

Body lyrics to Harder, Better, Faster Stronger.
Confusing fingers interpretation of Technologic.

Who needs network television and it's writers when we such entertaining stuff on YouTube?  Later on interwebbers.

PS - I found a clip of a show at the Cat's Cradle that I saw in person!!!!  GRAND BUFFET SON!  It's not weird if your cool about it.

Links for the crafty folks among us

Hey there blogophiles, greetings! Today, in between checking updates on what the newest showings are at CES, I perused YouTube some. I go through stints where I watch a bunch of stuff on YouTube. Today's finds come from a video I stumbled on by searching for "How to". What I found was a video on how to knit, which I clicked on and watched because I know people who like to knit and wondered if they might enjoy a link to the vid. It's pretty basic stuff that gets covered, so no dice as far as being interesting for my knitting pals, however, it was produced by the following website:

Threadbanger.com

They have a lot of neat things on there. I recommend you visit even if you aren't into personally produced marvels of craft ingenuity. I hope to check it out more as time permits. Maybe I'll finally learn how to sew, eh? Also mentioned in the video were the following sites:

Etsy.com
burdastyle.com
52projects.com
crafster.org
indiecraftshows.com

Burda is a sewing pattern and how-to site. Etsy is an awesome site; people make really cool craft stuff and sell it online. Check that one out for sure. 52 Projects is ...well I`m not exactly sure what it´s all about just yet but it looks like a neat place. Craftster is a hodge podge of how-tos, how I did this, etc. Lastly, Indiecraftshows.com is a listing. Of independent craftshows.

Also I just joined up with Del.icio.us but I haven´t added any links to it yet. Next time perhaps :)

Two links before I catch a few winks

Here are two spots within the internet that I came upon today and thought, "Hey, I'll post those for whoever (anyone?) reads my blog."  Also, it's easy to find these links when they're all collected in one spot like this.  I haven't tried any of the online bookmarking sites yet;I'll have to look into that in the future.  Until such time I give you:

--The Carbon Footprint Calculator--

Make sure you have your utility bills handy, or not if you happen to know on average what you pay for them over the course of a year. I wasn't able to try this out yet; I don't pay the bills here so I don't really know what numbers to plug in.  

--Bush Railroad--

I'd explain this one, but it's really better if you don't know ahead of time.  For those of us who are not big fans of W.  Also, this is a video and NSFW if you catch my drift.  If not, here's what I mean.