ok … umm the frog…. yeah … o_0

Posted at 1:34 pm on May 30th, 2005 by Arasoi

Vince,
I pulled the link because that feature was written on Friday and was already in the queue for today. Just like the dead frog feature which was lined up for tomorrow. That WEP cracking link was up Saturday. These things wouldn’t happen if you would bother to read the site, our readers do.

Posted at 1:46 pm on May 30th, 2005 by eliot phillips

…

Ohh SNAP!

:P

The frog thing is neat though. I can only hope the control computer fits in with the other exibits if this is displayed (which it looks like it’s supposed to be). A beige box in the art gallery would sure be ugly. Of course, it could be that everything’s controlled by people at home and that there ISN’T a control computer near the display… but that wouldn’t be any fun.

Posted at 3:01 pm on May 30th, 2005 by Joshua Holbrook

well that frog is kinda lame considering its just controlled by microservos. theres no real muscle control going on there. if they closed up the skin it might look as though you were just controlling the frog with the computer, but since you can see the servos its just a nasty lookin robot… later

Posted at 3:12 pm on May 30th, 2005 by ian

well that frog is kinda lame considering its just controlled by microservos. theres no real muscle control going on there. if they closed up the skin it might look as though you were just controlling the frog with the computer, but since you can see the servos its just a nasty lookin robot… later

Posted at 3:12 pm on May 30th, 2005 by ian

those half life 2 pictures are crazy, it’s crazy how well people at home can create such images.

Posted at 5:03 pm on May 30th, 2005 by chris

I see no point in adding the actual frog corpse to that “server”, other than so they can call it “art” and put it in a gallery rather than a less popular public place and call it an interactive robotics experiment.
Not big or clever, just attention seeking.

Posted at 5:12 pm on May 30th, 2005 by Ratty

your link to my chloroform page blew my site’s previous WEEKLY traffic record out of the water in 3 hours. thanks!

oddly enough, i had stumbled upon this site all by myself about a week earlier.

Posted at 7:06 pm on May 30th, 2005 by andrew

it would be sweet if the frog swam around in the tank like one of those electric ones in ur bathtub

it would be sweeter if it did it using the frogs own muscles and electric current..

rite now its just gross

Posted at 10:36 pm on May 30th, 2005 by Marc

i saw the chloroform on http://zarlwilliam.blogspot.com/ (awesome site) has anyone tried it yet, and does it work, without death and or other dangers?

Posted at 3:54 am on May 31st, 2005 by Tweaq

That is some crazy frog mod… Ive been working on modding an old laptop into my TV to make a media center, in honor of the frog mod, my MCTVs desktop is that little froggie!

Posted at 5:02 am on May 31st, 2005 by eru

Dude complaining about furs? Where, I wanna laugh at him!

Posted at 8:09 am on May 31st, 2005 by ST

Just to flash my street cred, I’m a chemist.

The chloroform trick works, but there is a much better way to do it that requires a slightly different apparatus. It goes more efficiently if you have external cooling of the vessel containing the bleach (use ice/water mixture) and set up a water cooled distillation head with a cooled collection vessel (use ice/acetone). Then slowly add the acetone so the reaction doesn’t get super hot or reach a fast boil.

Don’t heat a closed system!

Posted at 2:55 pm on May 31st, 2005 by molecule hacker

i have to ask.. what the hell do you think you’re going to do with chloroform?

Posted at 4:59 pm on May 31st, 2005 by Bong Bong Gad

chloroform is only good for killing yourself for all I know. did you get the recipe from tyler durden?

Posted at 6:08 pm on May 31st, 2005 by radioeyes

that frog… disturbing…
but, as said before
what real use for colorforms do we have?

Posted at 4:45 am on Jun 1st, 2005 by Frogz

Usefulness of chloroform:

1) Extracting interesting compounds (esp. alkaloids) from certain plants
2) Chemical welding of some plastics
3) improvised anesthetic for field-expedient emergency surgery
4) getting cancer more easily
5) this one is too dirty and cruel, so I’ll leave it up to your imagination

Posted at 1:16 pm on Jun 1st, 2005 by molecule hacker