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	<title>todbot blog &#187; ramblings</title>
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	<description>Random experiments, circuits, code, rapid prototyping, sometimes things to buy, and the odd tune by Tod E. Kurt.</description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m a video star on Slate, sort of</title>
		<link>http://todbot.com/blog/2011/06/06/im-a-video-star-on-slate-sort-of/</link>
		<comments>http://todbot.com/blog/2011/06/06/im-a-video-star-on-slate-sort-of/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 01:39:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>todbot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[

SlateV had a feature on 3D printing and Makerbots entitled "How to Print a Bicycle".  Bre of course was the spokesman.  About halfway through it though, my friend Jon saw my face.  Whoop, I'm famous!  Okay, so maybe not famous exactly.  But they did feature one of my creations.

While [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Too Much RFID</title>
		<link>http://todbot.com/blog/2009/11/19/too-much-rfid/</link>
		<comments>http://todbot.com/blog/2009/11/19/too-much-rfid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:11:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>todbot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[

Okay so I’m a big RFID nerd, did a lot of consulting work using [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Memoriam: Jed the cat, ~1992 &#8211; 8 Aug 2007</title>
		<link>http://todbot.com/blog/2007/08/08/in-memoriam-jed-the-cat-1992-8-aug-2007/</link>
		<comments>http://todbot.com/blog/2007/08/08/in-memoriam-jed-the-cat-1992-8-aug-2007/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Aug 2007 15:15:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>todbot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
 
Jed, aka "JedJedJed", "Jedders", "Jedbutt", "Little Wacko" died today after living approximately 15 years.  He died quietly in his home with me at his side.


He had lymphoma that ate up his back leg joint and alimentary canal.  It was so frustrating, for both me and him, to see his body failing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Ubicomp of Tomorrow, After These Messages</title>
		<link>http://todbot.com/blog/2007/02/28/the-ubicomp-of-tomorrow-after-these-messages/</link>
		<comments>http://todbot.com/blog/2007/02/28/the-ubicomp-of-tomorrow-after-these-messages/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Feb 2007 19:47:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>todbot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my periodic perusal of Warren Ellis's blog, I see he's linked to Nicolas Nova's post about "The Ubiquitous Computing of Today".  Nicolas discusses a great LIFT07 paper, "Yesterdayâ€™s tomorrows: notes on ubiquitous computingâ€™s dominant vision" by Genevieve Bell and Paul Dourish (Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 2006).  He and the paper highlight [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sketching in Hardware: USB on Rails</title>
		<link>http://todbot.com/blog/2006/06/26/sketching-in-hardware-usb-on-rails/</link>
		<comments>http://todbot.com/blog/2006/06/26/sketching-in-hardware-usb-on-rails/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jun 2006 04:58:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>todbot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I gave a talk at the Sketching in Hardware 1 conference.  It was a great conference, full of amazing people and hosted at an astounding location.  I'll write more on the conference later.

My talk was "USB on Rails".  The USB HID standard enables the sending and receiving of arbitrary data-structures ("objects") [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SpiroExplorer, a Spirograph toy</title>
		<link>http://todbot.com/blog/2006/06/03/spiroexplorer-a-spirograph-toy/</link>
		<comments>http://todbot.com/blog/2006/06/03/spiroexplorer-a-spirograph-toy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jun 2006 06:31:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>todbot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I've written a tool that can turn any parametric equation into a series of Roomba movement commands. Mostly, anyway.  The parametric equations I'm predominately focusing on are the hypotrochoid series of equations used in a Spirograph.

To explore the space of hypotrochoid curves I created SpiroExplorer, a simple Processing applet that lets you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Epicyclic Processing Triptych</title>
		<link>http://todbot.com/blog/2006/06/01/epicyclic-processing-triptych/</link>
		<comments>http://todbot.com/blog/2006/06/01/epicyclic-processing-triptych/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jun 2006 21:57:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>todbot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I've been playing around with Processing in order to visualize complex Roomba movements but instead have been having making little graphics programs that amuse me.

Thus the below.  Click on each on to start it going.







I guess this is generative art, but mostly it feels like wanking to me. Lots of fun, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ALERT: The robot uprising has begun</title>
		<link>http://todbot.com/blog/2006/02/17/alert-the-robot-uprising-has-begun/</link>
		<comments>http://todbot.com/blog/2006/02/17/alert-the-robot-uprising-has-begun/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2006 19:05:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>todbot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has started.


(image caption: factory robot wrestles Glock-9 from off-duty officer, shoots him)

They're not going to take any of our crap anymore.

Scattered reports around the country show a coordinated effort by the machines to displace humanity as rulers of this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If I could make music videos&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://todbot.com/blog/2005/09/03/if-i-could-make-music-videos/</link>
		<comments>http://todbot.com/blog/2005/09/03/if-i-could-make-music-videos/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Sep 2005 19:30:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>todbot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[they would all look something like this. (18 MB MOV)

The lighting, the digital compositing, the motion graphics effects... all just perfect.  And the hot milfs are nice [...]]]></description>
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<enclosure url="http://www.greentowel.com/images/qt/kennedy/GreenTowel_yourmama.mov" length="18810652" type="video/quicktime" />
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		<title>Cache This</title>
		<link>http://todbot.com/blog/2005/08/16/cache-this/</link>
		<comments>http://todbot.com/blog/2005/08/16/cache-this/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2005 19:47:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>todbot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[dumb stream-of-consciousness replacing of 'cat' with 'cache' for movies 


 That Darn Cache -- You can never have too much
 Cache on a Hot Tin Roof -- A story of casemodding gone horribly, horribly wrong
 The Cache From Outer Space	-- Computer technology gets uplifted via Roswell-related research
 The Cache In The Hash -- Turns [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Try Again&#8217; button for map routing</title>
		<link>http://todbot.com/blog/2005/07/18/try-again-button-for-map-routing/</link>
		<comments>http://todbot.com/blog/2005/07/18/try-again-button-for-map-routing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2005 19:34:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>todbot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wish mapping websites like maps.google.com &#38; maps.yahoo.com had a 'next' or 'try again' feature after giving you a set of directions.

So many times I can see that there is an alternate route that may be faster, more entertaining, etc. and if I could only say "next", meaning "perform another route planning, but this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tag Links: the Next Stage of Tagging</title>
		<link>http://todbot.com/blog/2005/03/13/tag-tags-the-next-stage-of-tagging/</link>
		<comments>http://todbot.com/blog/2005/03/13/tag-tags-the-next-stage-of-tagging/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2005 02:36:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>todbot</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://todbot.com/blog/archives/2005/03/08/tag-tags-the-next-stage-of-tagging/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[(in progress, but published for now so i can think about it)


What if tags had inter-relationships? Labeled inter-relationships?

There's been lots of noise about "folksonomies" (i.e. bottom-up, emergent, user-generated taxonomies of data) but they all seem to be focused on simple labeling of a particular dataset.  The "namespace" of the tags is entirely flat. [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Sponsored Search and Tag Folksonomies</title>
		<link>http://todbot.com/blog/2005/02/10/paid-search-and-folksonomies/</link>
		<comments>http://todbot.com/blog/2005/02/10/paid-search-and-folksonomies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2005 22:01:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>todbot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Overture/Yahoo should present and market sponsored search as a kind of tag folksonomy.

There's been a lot of press about the tagging folksonomies engendered by flickr and del.icio.us, and with good reason.  It's difficult (maybe impossible) to create useful top-down taxonomies which everyone agrees with and that tracks changes in human knowledge, as both [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Connectivity Tribes: In the future, we&#8217;ll live in Hexagons</title>
		<link>http://todbot.com/blog/2005/01/18/in-the-future-well-live-in-hexagons/</link>
		<comments>http://todbot.com/blog/2005/01/18/in-the-future-well-live-in-hexagons/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2005 21:26:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>todbot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I first learned electronics, I thought like most that "wired" was the way to go.  Need another DC-to-10 GHz spectrum? Run another coax.  Viz. the 80's/early-90's with Wired magazine, ethernet, cyberpunk and it's stereotypical "jacking in".  No one thought wireless was going to be that useful because everyone was stuck [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DSL woes, but fixed!</title>
		<link>http://todbot.com/blog/2005/01/17/dsl-woes-but-fixed/</link>
		<comments>http://todbot.com/blog/2005/01/17/dsl-woes-but-fixed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2005 19:58:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>todbot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rains attack. Tod defends.  Communication lines are compromised.  Safe mode is engaged and Tod belatedly pounces on the demarc with cutters and splices. 



I have Speakeasy as my DSL provider, with a static IP so I can host stuff.  They are pretty awesome: their customer service seem to actually have a [...]]]></description>
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