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So in case you’ve been wondering what’s been going on with the Enlightenment project lately, here’s a little news. Raster has written a virtual machine/scripting environment for Edje called Embryo, based on the Small scripting language and having a very small memory footprint (about 8K or so). I have just finished adding XAuth support to Entrance, and most of the libs and apps have had a fair share of updates/improvements. But the hottest thing right now is Engage, an OS X docker clone based on the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries. This is by far the coolest launcher app I’ve seen on any OS, and from what I’ve seen it’s potentially cooler than the OS X original. Don’t believe me? Here’s a video of engage in action. If you’re a GUI programmer and you’ve never used Evas & Edje, you don’t know what you’re missing!

Apparently the link to the dancing robot video came from Giblet’s web site, so I went there…and found a blog entry claiming Google’s new email service GMail is actually for real. The “coming soon” message has been replaced by an actual login box (last time I checked was April 1, and I was pretty convinced it was a hoax). More investigation … found the blogs of a couple of actual Google employees affirming, replete with real screenshots. Looks like Google has been hard at work here, and it appears to be refreshingly different from those other piles of junk. By the way, is it company policy for employees to post pictures of their girlfriends on the front page of a company web site?

Someone posted a link to this video in #gah today. Go Japanese geeks!

Oh, and if that isn’t enough robotic goodness for you, here’s a page with lots of mpegs of a soccer-playing robot called Robovie-M (courtesy of Slashdot).