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Ever wondered what would happen if you stuck elements from major space operas into one universe?
Finding this movie on YouTube I see that someone has. And has the skills to create it. Good animation and reasonably scripted scenes.
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Reading an article on Computerworld titled US gov’t seeks builder for military robot, where the first paragraph states:
“Creative scientists have until next week to submit proposals for creating a shape-shifting military robot that can shrink and then reconfigure itself to normal height and shape.”
Looks very much like a promo for the new Transformers movie. But after reading the following:
“The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is accepting proposals for building the so-called Chemical Robot (ChemBot) from researchers until July 2.”
It became obvious that the US government department just wants an advanced screening of the movie before it opens on 4 July in the USA. 
The final SDP presentation was Friday a week ago. And Richard was there taking more photos. Here is another photo of the photographer.
Yesterday was program demonstrations, ie does the program you designed actually work, we got 100%. So the group decided to allocate marks then and there. You can see a photo of the whiteboard used to allocate marks. (Unfortunately I only had a camera phone on me, so the picture is a little fuzzy.)
Oh, the joys of group work and group mark allocation. Office Politics 101.
As it happens there is a man selling Sydney Rock Oysters laced with Viagra. His idea was to produce a super aphrodisiac. Perhaps a smart marketing move, unfortunately the same can’t be said about his Internet usage.
He has been trying to promote the idea through a website. And when an email from Google arrived saying saying it was the “fastest growing internet story since 9/11” he went straight to the media.
A story in the Sydney Morning Herald details how the wool was putted over his eyes.
My favourite quote from the story is:
“Obviously, I’m not dumb, if I’d knew there was anything wrong with it at that point I’d have gone ’shit I’m not going to put that on national television on Sunday night’.”
No, he is obviously just gullible and didn’t think to check the email authenticity.