Self-Promotion

New poetry up: The Perilous Bed. Sir Gawain has "just a little bit of peril" when caught between a fair maiden and a flying sword with a chastity obsession.

Big Dog

Big Dog is a legged pack robot being developed by Boston Dynamics and sponsored by (who else?) DARPA. I've known about the project for some time, but have never actually seen their video demos.

Holy cow. I don't know what sort of software they're using to control those legs, but that's amazing. When it stumbles, slips or slides, it recovers and it looks damn organic while it's doing it.