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| Robot Beer Server From Japan's Vstone robotics company and the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (or ATR) comes the Robovie-PC, a new hobby robot with a neat little trick: imitating your arm movements. It's all a little Robot Jox, what with the robot's arms moving around the same as your own thanks to a special pair of gloves. The Robovie isn't just a 'bot with a gimmick, though, it's a serious $4,500 kit. The 15-inch-tall, five pound Robovie connects to your PC, has built-in camera sensors for eyes, features 20 degrees of freedom and — in the future — will be able to be decked out with modified gripper hands and limb extensions. |
| You don't say..... Beer Pong Can Give You Swine Flu- There are the obvious things that will give you swine flu—like getting sneezed on—and then there is playing beer pong. Officals at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in upstate Troy, NY have warned students that the sharing of cups during games of beer pong lead to the spread of disease, and especially of the spread of H1N1 this flu season. The same officials sent out a campus-wide email detailed a group of students who had all come down the virus after a weekend game.. ---------------------------- Russia is one of the world's largest per-capita consumers of alcohol. The average Russian drinks 18 liters of alcohol a year. That is more than twice the maximum amount considered healthy by the World Health Organization. In an effort to battle Russia's rampant alcoholism, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev announced restrictions barring the sale of beer in cans or bottles larger than one-third of a liter. The new rules apply to ''light alcohol'' beverages, but not to wine, vodka or other hard liquors. Russia is the world's fifth-largest beer market. Danish brewer Carlsberg has about 41 % of the market share. The government is now trying to increase the excise tax on beer by an average of 50 percent per year. The proposal has already affected Carlsberg, which brews Russia's No. 1 beer, Baltica. The company's shares recently dropped to a four-week low. |
| Ya gotta love these guys |
| Kevin Fishman "A beer in the hand is worth two in the case." Leroy Lockhorn "Beer is the only virtual reality I need." Brian Lynch "I set my beer down, but I can't remember where I put it. I think I must have (Ales)zheimer's." Michael Jackson, The Beer Hunter My house is about equidistant from the Young's brewery and the Fuller's brewery. This is no accident |
| Rodney Dangerfield (in Back To School) "Bring a pitcher of beer every seven minutes until somebody passes out and then bring one every 10 minutes ." Arnie Lands "I have never been into wine. I'm a beer man. What I like about beer is you basically just drink it and order more. You don't sniff at it, or hold it up to the light and slosh it around, or drone on and on about it, the way people do with wine. Your beer drinker tends to be a straightforward, decent, friendly, down-to-earth person, whereas your serious wine fancier tends to be an insufferable snot.. |
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