Had a semi-productive day. Still putting names on the list for the Alpha Test. If you’re interested, mail me at mark@5tribe.com and let me know. I for one welcome our new robot overlords…The South Korean government has robot fever, and they’re about to unleash a whole army — literally — of the mechanized creatures on their public. According to The Korea Times, the country will see the rollout of police and...

My Album Download UpdateOkay, I realized there is a problem today with downloading the album with Hamachi.  You have to have the password to join the network my hamachi client is on. I’m not going to give it out on the blog, because it happens to be the same password I use for some other sensitive information.  Until I figure out a way to fix this, I’m going to put the files on the server available for...

I really don’t have it out for Hodson and Khashoggi, but I found something you ERTH and FLYDLUX people might get a kick out of. This out of the Urban Dictionary: 1. EarthShell To spend large amounts of corporate or taxpayer money while leaving no impact on the environment or any lasting evidence of the effort. After spending hundreds of millions developing a new manufacturing process only to have it fail before production begins, one...

Seems like Earthshell isn’t the only thing that E.K.’s getting out of recently. A residential property in Hope Ranch has been sold for $50 million, setting a record for a home sale in the Santa Barbara area and topping the $45 million that Oprah Winfrey paid in 2001 for her Montecito estate. The Hope Ranch estate was purchased by Geoff Rusack and Alison Wrigley Rusack. The ocean front home is on 38-acres and once belonged to Peter...

[Rizzn’s Note: If you remember, Simon Hodson and Essam Khashoggi were big investors in the whole FlyDLUX debacle.] In news that’s only semi-related to FlyDLUX in that respect, I found this on the wires today: July 7 — Essam Khashoggi, the co-founder and chairman of EarthShell Corp., is stepping down from the company´s board of directors. Khashoggi said June 7 that he would not seek re-election to the board as part of his...