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The engineering council produce a quarterly magazine 'engineering first', in this months magazine (August!) there is an interesting article on the Falkirk Wheel. The article within the 'engineering first' magazine discusses many of the concept ideas (...) (23 years ago, 2-Sep-01, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Anyone seen this yet?
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MSNBC has a cute article on the new release of Mindstorms: (URL) (23 years ago, 31-Aug-01, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Re: Lego article on slashDot
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(...) LEGO® needs that 'Eye of the Tiger' again...-Harvey (23 years ago, 31-Aug-01, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Re: Lego article on slashDot
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(...) Members signed in via the web interface decide that, in part, by their highlighting it. If you think it does, do that. I think the original article reference got highlighted fairly high... (23 years ago, 30-Aug-01, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Re: Lego article on slashDot
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Funny enough, this article was mentioned in Lugnet already. I tried to figure the best place to send it, and hadn't seen the MediaWatch section. Silly me. (...) (23 years ago, 30-Aug-01, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Re: Lego article on slashDot
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this topic needs a place on the main page of lugnet, or "attention points" or whatever it is that decides that. (23 years ago, 30-Aug-01, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Re: Lego article on slashDot
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(...) Forget the Slashdot commentary... go right to the Fast Company article. This is a very insightful and interesting piece. I think anyone really interested in the LEGO company, where it's been and where it's going, should read this article. It (...) (23 years ago, 30-Aug-01, to lugnet.mediawatch) !
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| | Lego article on slashDot
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Lego article on slashDot titled 'Why Can't LEGO Click?' at ... (URL) which in turn references an article at fastcompany .. (URL) some nice historical notes on TLC Ray (23 years ago, 29-Aug-01, to lugnet.mediawatch) !!
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| | Re: LEGO in Washington Post
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(...) Observer. (23 years ago, 28-Aug-01, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.loc.us.nc)
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| | Re: LEGO in Washington Post
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Despite LEGO® releasing the new classic and legend sets, I can't help but feel that they are continuing to slip away from their winning formula used from the beginning. The Bionicle stuff is total limitation on one's creativity (at least in my (...) (23 years ago, 20-Aug-01, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Re: LEGO in Washington Post
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(...) Well, it's nice that Michael and Christian were mentioned, but I'm wondering if they didn't come off as salivating adult geeks by being pegged alone...especially after so many of us were interviewed, and yet no mention was made of LUGNET, (...) (23 years ago, 20-Aug-01, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.technic.bionicle)
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| | LEGO in Washington Post
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It was mentioned a couple weeks ago that some AFOLs were interviewed for a Washington Post article - here it is: (URL) also found that WAMALTC was sort of mentioned in the "datebook" section on the 16th - for the Greenberg Toy and Train show this (...) (23 years ago, 20-Aug-01, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Lego in _Computer Gaming World_
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For what it's worth... In the current issue of _Computer Gaming World_ (September, 2001) there is a (somewhat blurry) picture of a battlemech made of Legos submitted by a reader in the "Letters" column. Now if only they'd review "Lego Island 2" :-) (23 years ago, 16-Aug-01, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Report from RoboCup 2001
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RoboCup 2001 Seattle, WA August 2-10 2001 Same story, multiple URLs: (URL) site: (URL) (23 years ago, 14-Aug-01, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.robotics.events)
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| | Lego mentioned on "Inside the Actors' Studio" by Mike Myers
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When asked why his character "Dieter" always danced at the end of each show, Mike Myers said (paraphrased) "Well, we have sponsors, and the sponsors like it when we dance. Legos. The Lego people sponsor us." (23 years ago, 14-Aug-01, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Re: Bionicle (and Jack Stone) sponsor commercial-lite broadcat of Samurai Jack
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(...) For more fun, pick up the September ish of ToyFare...there is a Samurai Jack CD-ROM filled with flash animations, goodies and toys and a long theatrical trailer. It's way cool. Matt (23 years ago, 11-Aug-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Bionicle (and Jack Stone) sponsor commercial-lite broadcat of Samurai Jack
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Imagine how my delight was amplified when, while I came across a great new show on Cartoon Network called Samurai Jack, ads for Bionicle ran _after_ the show. Lego had sponsored the whole show! (The villain, Aku, is an evil shape-shifting wizard. (...) (23 years ago, 11-Aug-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Teens build LEGO machines
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Here's a short piece about the 'Conexiones' youth technology program at Arizona State University -Suz ---...--- Technology connection Immigrants' children benefit from ASU program Barbara Yost The Arizona Republic Aug. 10, 2001 "Eduardo Reyes was (...) (23 years ago, 10-Aug-01, to lugnet.edu, lugnet.dacta, lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Re: NCE - Debate - and this is the last of it, I'm sure.
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(...) Thanks for taking the lead on this... Strangely enough, the two "sides" presented aren't all that different. The pro Meccano guy is just saying that something practical that gives experience is good without giving any strong reason why it (...) (23 years ago, 9-Aug-01, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.technic)
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