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-Keith Pelczarski
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February Madness, the Name Game, and Wild Things
Longtime readers know that I'm a big fan of college basketball, and UConn is my team. I dyed my hair blue for the Final Four last year and both the men's and women's teams won their respective national championships. Our teams aren't as dominating this year, but both could make some noise in March.
All that's next month. March is known for madness, but now February is looking to get into the act, thanks to The First Annual TMN Tournament of Books sponsored by Powell's Books. Being an illiterate father with no time for books, I can't make any picks for who will win, but I like to see the tournament bracket being more widely adopted. If only the BCS wizards would collect those clue cards.
Moving on, occasional Go Nutty reader and father-in-law Capt. Mikie sends a link to The Baby Name Wizard's Name Voyager. It's a java-based tool that shows the popularity of names from 1900 to the present, using some very slick interactive graphs.
Finally, Wired News recently wrote about Theo Jansen's Wild Things. Theo is working to create a "new nature" according to his StrandBeest site. Check out the photographs and movies and consider that there are no motors involved. All of the motion is created by the repurposing of environmental energy like wind, or a pull from a person. It's like robotics and genetics, yet really not much like either. I hope that I'll have the chance to hear Jansen speak at GEL.
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