Tomorrow night, you can get your classic game on at Game Over Videogames' last event of Classic Game Fest '08.
And, there's an outdoor screening of The King of Kong, a great if somewhat sad story of the ridiculous rivalry induced by Donkey Kong addiction.

Here's the full info:

Sign ups are at 8:00pm, but we highly suggest getting here early to guarantee you a spot in the tournament.

We will have a total of 64 player positions available (plus 3 alternates), and believe me, they will fill up FAST!!

In the interest of time, each match will be 4 players at a time (split-screen), and only the winner will advance to the next round. So basically, we'll go from 64 to 16 in round 1, then 16 to 4 in round 2, then the final four will compete in one final round to determine the over all champion.

All final four contestants will win cool prizes provided by Game Over Videogames - Plus bragging rights to all of your friends!!

The tournament will start at sundown (approximately 8:45 PM) and last until around 10:30pm.

Then, from 10:30pm until midnight, we'll be watching the awesome documentary - "KING OF KONG" about the challenger to the Donkey Kong world record. This movie is excellent - you will LOVE IT!!

Here's a one-motor coat hanger walker I spotted on Flickr. It uses the same single-motor hacked servo and BEAM bicore circuit as the Jerome Demer's project I featured in my book, Absolute Beginner's Guide to Building Robots, but the leg configuration is different than Jerome's and my bots, and the center of gravity is shifted (on ours, the battery packs are on either side of the servo case, here they are behind the servo). I know that some builders from my book ended up getting better traction by adding some weight to the back of the servo case, so some COG shift can be a good thing. I'd like to see this one in action to see the walking gate/stability.

Spiders?

More:

• HOW TO - Build a one-motor walker
  
• Two-motor quadcore BEAM walker
• BeetleBot Revisited

Interview with our MAKE books editor Brian Jepson! I think he should just run for mayor of Providence already :)

Next time you're wandering around west Texas, don't shoot that feral pig that wonders into your path. Instead, adopt him and gain a cattle-herding, 400-pound friend.

But please don't feed him pizza with pepperoni on top: that's just creepy:

First to expand pig training to fill other traditionally dog-powered activities has my never-ending respect. Pig power instead of these dog-powered transports might even result in some usable methane, too!

Mark Applebaum is a musician (and professor at Stanford) who makes incredibly complex sound sculptures from found objects. (Via DeepFun)

The instruments consist of threaded rods, nails, wire strings stretched through a series of pulleys and turnbuckles, plastic combs, bronze braising rod blow-torched and twisted, doorstops, shoehorns, ratchets, steel wheels, springs, lead and PVC pipe, corrugated copper plumbing tube, Astroturf, parts from a Volvo gearbox, a metal Schwinn bicycle logo, and, indeed, mousetraps. It was great fun to collect this stuff and particularly satisfying to cause anxiety and suspicion among the hardware clerks who nervously eyed me as I conducted investigations of the acoustical properties of their wares. It was a feeling of accomplishment when, weeks into my research, the same salesmen would excitedly welcome me into the store, giddy with their own myopia-shedding epiphanies: "Mark, listen to how this thing sounds when you hit it with this!" My project became an informal and unexpected arts outreach program.