Robert Gates confirmed today that the US is in “preliminary” talks with the Taliban, reports the Hill, cautioning that they’ve only been going on for a “few weeks.” Appearing on State of the Union and Fox News Sunday, the outgoing defense secretary said the State Department was handling talks—though…
Continue reading …Planking is so last month—all the cool kids are now ” cone-ing. ” The procedure: Buy a soft-serve ice cream cone and take it from the vendor as awkwardly as possible. You might take the ice cream itself in your hand, stick your face in it, or eat it while the…
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Continue reading …Receipt Racer makes printing fun, wastes more paper than you ever thought possible (video)
June 19, 2011 No Comment
Sure, you could use your printer to spit out spreadsheets, but how about hooking up a DualShock 3 to play it like a video game? That’s exactly what Joshua Noble and the undef duo did during a workshop related to OFFF last week, and the result is stunning (if not hilarious). The trio coded a game in openFrameworks , titled Receipt Racer , which uses a thermal receipt printer modded with a “light beamer” to display game info and represent a car, a DS3 to control it, and a laptop to connect the devices and run the software. A random track with obstacles gets rapidly printed while a player attempts to navigate it without crashing — sort of like Lane Splitter — or until the paper roll runs out after 164 feet. There’s a tree-loving web browser version and the full details of how it works in the source link below. We scored just over 1,400 1,752 points; let us know how you do in the comments. [Thanks, Jesse] Continue reading Receipt Racer makes printing fun, wastes more paper than you ever thought possible (video) Receipt Racer makes printing fun, wastes more paper than you ever thought possible (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 19 Jun 2011 15:19:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Finally, retroactive justification for all those boring meetings. It seems all that debate-clubbing, band-playing, yearbook-editing and after school do-gooding literally paid off. GOOD uncovered a study that said a student who participates in extracurricular activities in high school will earn 11.8% more in later life. The report, published by Vasilios D. Kosteas, an economics professor
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Continue reading …Barack Obama was in favor of gay marriage before Senator Obama was against it, and now President Obama is again considering the issue, having said publicly that his views are “evolving.” Obama will headline a pair of events for the gay community in coming weeks, and as he ramps up…
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The FBI says a bomb threat prompted flights to be temporarily halted at Washington’s Reagan National Airport. Officials say the threat was made at the Dayton Airport and that person is in custody. It dealt with a plane bound for Washington.
Continue reading …The FBI says a bomb threat prompted flights to be temporarily halted at Washington’s Reagan National Airport. Officials say the threat was made at the Dayton Airport and that person is in custody. It dealt with a plane bound for Washington.
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The FBI says a bomb threat prompted flights to be temporarily halted at Washington’s Reagan National Airport. Officials say the threat was made at the Dayton Airport and that person is in custody. It dealt with a plane bound for Washington.
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