This Day in Blogging History: Improvised "Chechen" firearms; Whitehouse.gov's GWB-era robots.txt file; Robot belly-dancer

One year ago today

Improvised "Chechen" firearms: These are the Chechen homemade guns.

Five years ago today

Obama's whitehouse.gov nukes 2400-line Bush robots.txt file: Yesterday, the robots.txt file for whitehouse.gov had ca. 2400 lines worth of files and directories that search engines were not allowed to index.

Ten years ago today
Shake it like a (robotic) salt shaker: To generate the robot's undulations, Or borrowed a computer program built by Swedish researchers that simulates a network of nerves in the lamprey called a central pattern generator (CPG)