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Article here: (URL) TLC may be talking to Marcus Noga about his use of "LegOS" for the open-source operating system for the Mindstorms RCX (see last page). I can see their point. Personally, I think "NogOS" has a bit of a ring to it 8?) What does (...) (23 years ago, 9-Sep-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.general, lugnet.mediawatch) !
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| | Danes in Toyland Article from March 2000 in Feed Magazine by Jessica Hundley
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I did a search and found no references to this great article by Jessica Hundley entitled, "Danes in Toyland." See the whole article here: (URL) paragraph, to convince you to read the article: ' As a child, I had seen a grainy Land Camera photo of a (...) (23 years ago, 6-Sep-01, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, lugnet.legoland.california)
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| | Mindstorms - in IEEE Spectrum!
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Hi all, All you engineers out there who are members of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers: I just received my latest issue of Spectrum, and it has a lengthy story on Mindstorms. Has some photographs of creations, such as Soren (...) (23 years ago, 5-Sep-01, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Re: Lego article on slashDot
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(...) IIRC... In the previous thread that discussed this (when it was just a Fast Company article instead of a slashdotted phenom) it was stated by someone that it wasn't designed in a day, it was approved in a day because someone (Brad?) walking (...) (23 years ago, 4-Sep-01, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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A quote from the article: Product cycle times are falling: In time for Father's Day this year, Lego Direct, the catalog and Internet-sales division, produced the Sopwith Camel biplane kit. The plane was designed in a single day, and the kit was (...) (23 years ago, 4-Sep-01, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Lego and the Falkirk Wheel Project.
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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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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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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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(...) 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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