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April’s dorkbot meeting will be at 7pm on Wednesday, 19 April 2006 at Brillobox.

Speakers:

Tina “Bean” Blaine uses science and technology to explore new interface designs for gaming, collective music-making and interactive media. She has recorded with Brian Eno, and written music for purposes as diverse as NPR broadcasts and video games and is currently a faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University’s Entertainment Technology Center.

Dave Mansueto is a Pittsburgh hacktivist and founding member of Libsyn, a communications facilitator that produces podcasts for individuals, collectives and nonprofits world wide.

Full details and directions at http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotpgh/

Technorati Tags: dorkbot, pittsburgh, jam-o-drum, podcasting, brillobox

Scheduled speakers are:

• Peter Coppin, “Enabling public planetary exploration: using telepresence art as a laboratory for human experience”.
• Nathan Martin, projects include MapHub and Carbon Defense League.

All the details and directions you could want.

Technorati Tags: telepresence, hacking, dorkbot, pittsburgh

Dorkbot Pittsburgh is in the works, sign up for the dorkbotpgh-announce mailing list if you’re interested.

“Right. What’s a ‘dorkbot’?”

Dorkbot is simple: people doing strange things with electricity.

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Woohoo! Comment and referrer spam! I’ve arrived!

Laura Lemay wrote up some quick notes on how to deal with this.

referrer spam | comment spam

This is pretty brilliant — instead of keeping your FRS/GMRS radio in the drawer most of the time, keep it in your car and use it like a CB.

There’s also a forum that’s just been set up to discuss this sort of thing at http://www.urbancb.com/.

Technorati Tags: FRS, GMRS, GPS