oh wait... then halfway thru we get whooshy sounds, building building building... expecting to see a monolith and hear monkey chorus rising soon...

is it me, or is dubai trying waaaaaayyy to hard (oops, um much?) to be a fantastic tourist destination.... in the middle east!!!

cool! a different kind of google earth type view of the launch site.

i like how the tinkly noises stop once it leaves our atmosphere. in space... no one can hear you tinkle!

eep. looks like an accident waiting to happen. does the bottom of it have to be so high off the ground?

all it would take is one tiny leak and *swoooooooooshhh*

dwarves behaving badly.

with an evil chuckle.

and what's with the one-legged chicken that uses its wing as a crutch? peck peck peck. a metaphor for drarfs getting picked on?

in any case, overall... creepy.

brilliant.

apparently, there's no accounting for taste in Norway.

tho the norwegian wikipedia does seem to refer to the accordion (trekkspill) as "Satan's instrument," if that makes you happy, Moon. :)

haha, "slip-ups."

this happened before, a couple of years ago, in PA.

http://www.marriedtothesea.com/gallery-vict.php

Guter Goetter! I misspelled Ohrwurm.

Entschuldigung. :)

i remember this from tv as a kid. nickelodeon between shows?

quite a little Ohrworm, too.

neat. kinda Psapp meets Nightmare Before Christmas.

or a smudge of an ugly american tourist's chewing gum on an ancient cathedral wall...

a doorstop with interchangeable decoration (right now a duck... unscrew it and replace with something else if you like).

ok, those legs are creeping me out. i keep expecting humans to pull their heads and torsos out of the middle bit and say "surprise!!"

in other news, i wonder if any double leg amputees (humans!) would ever be interested in this kind of robot legs. they seem a little too wild and perky to wanna perch myself on (and may require the use of a helmet and wrist/elbow guards, a la rollerblading), but that's just me. a wheelchair is much more predictable and manageable, i'd think.