With so many different languages and cultures around the world, sometimes things get lost in translation. This was very evident to me the other night while perusing YouTube. There is no end of videos, most of them pretty hilarious, that take full advantage of misunderstandings and mistranslations between languages. Here are a few of my [...]

A long time ago, I watched the great Mel Brooks movie “The Producers“. I recall my favorite character being Lorenzo St. DuBois as portrayed by the late, great Dick Shawn. I recently ran across a video clip of Lorenzo’s audition for Springtime for Hitler. This scene always makes me laugh. Shawn’s rendition of the [...]

BP has created a wonderful little model environment for their surveyorbots to roam around in. And you can control them over the web! The surveyorbot has a webcam, so you can see where your little bot is going. There is a little lag between when you send a command and when the surveyorbot responds, but [...]