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Musings

Twitter’s 4.005th Birthday and a Cool Video

March 23, 2010

Twitter celebrated its 4th birthday this past Sunday (March 21). Look at the first Tweet here. Summer of 2008 I was able to interview Biz Stone, one of the co-founders of Twitter. I’m sure today he wouldn’t have time to sit down with some college kids in the Twitter HQ, so I was lucky I [...]

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Going to the Moon or Grounded on Earth?

February 5, 2010

Check out this video on saving NASA’s Constellation program and Ares rocket (the program that was going to replace the Space Shuttle and take us back to the moon, and then Mars). In his proposed budget Obama wants to raise NASA funding by about 2%, but cut the Constellation program (and basically manned space flight), [...]

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How BattleBots could help Haiti (And How You Can Too)

January 15, 2010

In talking to people about my project, and in talking to Nola, the director of BattleBotsIQ, a fair number of responses we get when we describe kids building BattleBots is something along the lines of “it’s violent.” Now I could go off on a whole other post comparing BattleBots injuries to football, boxing, or even cheerleading (all sanctioned sports), [...]

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Rethinking Computer Interactions

October 13, 2009

One thing that Nola, the head of the BattleBots high school program, tells all the kids is engineering is about solving problems. Here’s one that may not necessarily be a problem, mostly because we’ve all become so used to it, but it can definitely use improvement, and that’s how we interact with computers. The mouse [...]

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