Here's What's Awesome: Robot Gardeners, Citizen Copyediting

It is a time of uncertainty. Virginia is away. Avishay is at South by Southwest in Texas. But we are here, and we are charged with keeping the Word of Mouth flame burning bright. And that we will do, because we have a set of awesome links.

But what we really need is a droid who understands the binary language of moisture vaporators
The winter weather is packing up and heading out, and that means it's time to start planning this year's garden. Tomatoes? Cucumbers? Carrots? Rhubarb? How about robot gardeners? MIT postdoc student Nikolaus Correll is testing a team of mechanized garden helpers who monitor the health of tomato plants; if the plants need nutrients or water, the robots feed and water them. Correll's team hopes to eventually make the technology usable on a large-scale, for farms or greenhouses, which would allow us to go down to the Tosche Station and pick up some power converters. [Crave]

Srry abot al teh typos
Were you the type who loved to catch teacher's spelling errors on the chalkboard? If so, GooseGrade is right up your alley: this plugin for the Wordpress blog system allows "citizen copyediting," meaning that someone can not just find a typo on your blog, they can submit a correction. And that's good, since we al mak mistaks. [ReadWriteWeb]

All together now, everybody!
Chris from North Carolina sent us an awesome link to a YouTube remix called Thru You, which he described in this succinct way: "This blows my mind." The author takes video clips of individual musicians playing their own instruments and links them together, as if they were all in one band playing one song.

[Thru You]

Now it's your turn: share an awesome link in the comments. Or at least copyedit these links.

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