December 2007
Jason H. knows kung fu.
Tim O.’s spellchecker is going out of its way to embarass him.
…but Hugues doesn’t drive a 108 Civic!
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Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry (METI) just announced the winners of its 2007 Robot of the Year award. The grand prize goes to the work-horse, industrial robot from Fanuc Ltd. called M-430iA. The multi-axis, greaseless (read: sanitary) robot is part of a food and pharmaceutical handling system. Unlike your unemployed uncle with his GED, this bot can...
Stephanie Sinclair won the UNICEF photo of the year for her haunting picture of a 40-year-man and his 11-year-old bride in Afghanistan.
He’s forty, she’s eleven. And they are a couple – the Afghan man Mohammed F.* and the child Ghulam H.*. “We needed the money”, Ghulam’s parents said. Faiz claims he is going to send her to school. But the women of Damarda village in Afghanistan’s Ghor province...
Teeth - Trailer TEETH tells the story of High school student Dawn (Jess Weixler) works hard atsuppressing her budding sexuality by being the local chastity group’s mostactive participant. Her task is made even more difficult by her bad boystepbrother Brad’s (John Hensley) increasingly provocative behavior at home. Astranger to her own body, innocent Dawn discovers she has a toothed...
Það er nú eitt það erfiðasta í heimi að finna gjafir fyrir kærustur og kærasta, ég hef alltaf verið mjög hjálpsamur og því ætla ég að létta innkaupin fyrir dömurnar og stinga upp á þessum sexy nærbuxum fyrir karlinn, það verður heitt um jólin þegar hann fer í þessar.
(14 votes - 5 comments - 138 views) An amazing lecture on biblical manuscript tampering by Dr. Bart Ehrman. Dr. Ehrman is a professor and the chairman of Religious Studies of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and also the author of the book “Misquoting Jesus.” Dr. Bart Ehrman was an evangelical Christian as a teenager, and was very interested in what he thought was...
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Almenningur virðist vera á tánum þegar kemur að verðlagi leikfangaverslana. Just4Kids sendu frá sér tilkynningu sem birtist í blöðunum í morgun þess efnis að búðin ætlaði sér í verðstríð á markaði með því að lækka vörur sínar um 30 til 80 prósent.
(14 votes - 1 comment - 153 views) Seems that the scrubbed launch from 12/07 was not about fuel problems after all.
A giant spider recently attacked the space shuttle Atlantis on the launch pad. Or so it appears in this clip from NASA TV. Link (Thanks, Kirsten Anderson!)
Pioneering avant-garde composer Karlheinz Stockhausen died on Wednesday. Stockhausen’s experimental electro-acoustic music influenced everyone from John Cage to the Beatles, David Bowie to Sonic Youth. He was 79. Link to Stockhausen.org, Link to Associated Press obituary
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We’ve already seen some of Sarcos’ robotics gear put to some slightly frightening use in the form of a military exoskeleton, and it now looks like one of the company’s full-fledged robots is getting a chance to strut its stuff as well, with a little help from the folks at Japan’s Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute. As New Scientist reports,...
The first in an irregular series of pics from my travels: this “Faith Healing Performed Here” sign from the queue area at Mr Toad’s Wild Ride at Disneyland California. See also: “If your dad farts in the boat, jump out!” signs from Disneyland Paris. Link