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Hanson Robotics Zeno Robokind
I was going to post about this totally creepy-cool Albert Einstein robot. While looking for the company / lab responsible I came up with Hanson Robotics. Check out the little guy below – 299 USD. Some amazing toys around the corner – welcome to the future.
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Moving violation Sumatra style
How’s that for casual motoring? Two dogs, no helmet, on a cellphone. Welcome to Sumatra, Indonesia. I saw another bike loaded with 3 dogs and 2 guys on the way to what I found out later was a weekly wild boar hunt. If you find yourself in Padang on a Wednesday, make your way over [...]
Spy Horse
via reddit.. yes.. it’s photoshopped.
Made my brain jiggle a bit.
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Tiddy Bear
via AdSavvy
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Dreamhost downtime 48 hours
Up until now I’ve been a happy customer. Two days of downtime has left me disappointed. Here is what Dreamhost support had to say.
Hmm, it seems that the move back to phaeton had an issue. I’ve corrected
it for this domain (all the others appear to be fine), and after DNS
propagation again [...]
I endorse McCain for President, of Halloween
This is NOT photoshopped. The man actually made this zombie face in the final moments of the most important televised appearance of his political life. He is a Maverick! What if he’d performed the thriller routine? John McCain, you won’t get my vote but you’re invited to any future BBQ I have. Just leave Keating [...]
Rubber recycling gone wrong, China used condoms for hairbands
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BEIJING – Used condoms are being recycled into hair bands in southern China, ironically threatening to spread the very STDs they were originally meant to prevent, state media reported on Tuesday.
In the latest example of potentially harmful Chinese-made products, rubber hair bands have been found in local markets and beauty salons in Dongguan and Guangzhou [...]
Troutbot mystery solved: Project Upstream
I’ve been getting odd and cryptic messages through AIM from usernames PersonalTrout, ImplicitTrout and other trout-like nicks. I replied as you would when a stranger messages, “who is this, how can I help you, etc.” The only replies were equally odd. Today I got a reply from a fishy friend. Apparently there is a bot [...]
Indian motorcycle human transport
Seriously strong neck on that guy! via E-UUU
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Malaysians are horny buggers
photo by catklein
I’m just looking through Alexa rankings for Malaysia and was surprised by a few things. First, congrats to MalaysiaKini – the top news site in Malaysia (according to Alexa) beating out all other mainstream media outlets in the country. Speaking of beating, Redtube (NSFW – hardcore adult videos) happens to be the 29th [...]
Cassette tapes still going strong.. in prisons
Photo by Victor J Blue
One retailer is focusing on the prison population and cassette tapes to overcome the internet piracy woes of the music industry. Why are cassettes popular in prison? CDs can be made into shanks.
via boingboing and NYT
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Torture = Shame
This looks like something out of Saw III. Unfortunately it’s (allegedly) my tax dollars at work.
Granted, this man is probably not up for nice guy of the year award, but still.. Future soldiers will fight on rather than surrender and be subjected to possible U.S. torture. Actions like this just ensure more deaths on all [...]