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Comments Off A video about Yukipon, a big “cat†who gets a job when his owner refuses to feed him. Only in Japan.
Click Play or go to Link [YouTube]. As seen on Japan Probe.
Here’s a list of the Top 10 overlooked video games, includes The 7th Saga, River City Ransom, Psychonauts. Click here for more info. Found at Digg.
On the left is Graham Chapman [wiki], so-called “the dead one” from the Monty Pythons [wiki].
On the right is José Luis Gil [wiki], an actor usually dubbing his voice in the Spanish version of films such as Life of Brian.
Images found at Parecidos Razonables
Check out Chinese artist Xia Xiaowan’s 3D artwork made from "slices" of painted glass!
Links: Shanghai biennale | Galerie Meile | artnet – via Ponchorama and Pasa la vida
TechEBlog has the roundup of the 6 gadgets for Star Wars Geek. I particularly like this one:
If the custom designed smoked glass, etched with Darth Vader’s image doesn’t wow you, then the price will. Looks aside, this is a fully-functional 6 oz. popcorn machine that would be perfect for your living room. Its available now for a whopping $1,099 from Snappy Popcorn.
Here’s a new clip from JibJab called "What We Call The News." Link – via Bourbon
and Lawndarts
The Antiriddle claims to be "The Hardest Riddle on the Net". I can’t even get past the first riddle!
Zombie teeth? Nope, meth user’s teeth.
Found at Teacher’s Lounge, who has a larger (and therefore scarier) pic: Link
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The students at UCSC spent about 5 hours and 6,400 Post-It Notes to create this awesome rendition of the retro video game Donkey Kong! Link – via Boing Boing
They looked for objects in nature that might have such a property. While Domokos was on his honeymoon in Greece, he tested 2,000 pebbles to see if he could find one that would right itself, but none did. “Why he is still married, that is another thing,” Várkonyi says. “You need a special woman for this.”
The shapes they have found that come nearest to the goal resemble a turtle’s shape, which is a very useful adaptation for a turtle. The two scientists are now measuring turtles, which is slow work. They have offered a cash prize to anyone who can demonstrate a flat-sided polyhedron that is truly self-righting -$10,000 divided by the number of sides in the polyhedron. They believe the prize may turn out to be quite small, as many sides will be needed for such a shape. Link -via Reddit
Not as slick as an iPod but I bet you will find someone you could impress with this awfully cute looking 1GB Mp3 Player. Via Engadget.
Evidence of water has been detected for the first time in a planet outside our solar system, an astronomer said on Tuesday, a tantalizing find for scientists eager to know whether life exists beyond Earth.
Travis Barman, an astronomer at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, said water vapor has been found in the atmosphere of a large, Jupiter-like gaseous planet located 150 light years from Earth in the constellation Pegasus. The planet is known as HD 209458b. Link
Here’s our weekly No Exit collaboration with Andy Singer – remember to check out: No Exit.
Here’s a neat (or useless) idea: a printed paper email! Link – via swissmiss
Apparently, a couple of days ago on April 8, 2007, there was the 7th Annual Bring Your Own Big Wheel event, where over 100 people converged onto San Francisco’s Lombard Street [wiki] (The Crookedest Street in the World) to race!
Links: JonBrumit (warning: annoying music on webpage) | jwz | Laughing Squid
Comments Off Leave it to the Japanese to create .. a cyborg chick that looks and feel like the real thing, except you don’t have to feed or clean up after them!
The palm-sized, fluffy robots, named Yume Hiyoko, or "dream chicks", went on sale last week in time for the Easter holidays. They join toy maker Sega’s line of mechanical pets that includes dogs, cats and ponies.
The chick has touch sensors that trigger it to chirp or flap its wings when its back is stroked. It cannot, however, move.
"I think it is good as a pet because you don’t have to feed it and clean its droppings," said Masahiro Okada, a chicken farm worker who was looking at the toys.
Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] | Article – via Arbroath
Since Jimmy Wales created Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia anyone can edit, six years ago, a bunch of "wikis" have sprung up.
Mental_floss has the scoop of the various wikis that are out there. For example:
Wikiality, “the truthiness encyclopedia” was launched by Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert in 2006 shortly after he was banned from Wikipedia for encouraging vandalism.
NOTCOT has a neat feature of an exclusive by Eleven Forty: a £14,500 foosball table featuring good vs. evil! Link
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The Sumatran striped rabbit is so rare that it has been spotted only three times in the last 35 years!
Astronomers seem to have answered the long-standing mystery of the two ghostly spiral arms in the galaxy M106:
By analyzing data from XMM-Newton, Spitzer, and Chandra, the team in Maryland have confirmed earlier suspicions that the ghostly arms represent regions of gas that are being violently heated by shock waves.
It has been previously suggested that the anomalous arms are jets of particles being ejected by a supermassive black hole in M106’s nucleus. But radio observations at the Very Large Array in New Mexico later identified another pair of jets originating in the core. "It is highly unlikely that an active galactic nucleus could have more than one pair of jets," says Yang.
