Kittens on a Roomba

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Idiotarod '09

I probably won't be able to do anything with it this year (this is the first one I've missed). So sad. But if YOU'RE racing...
...please watch...
Danger Zone PSA
All hail C.O.B.R.A.!

God Monkey Robot

This is the sort of song I would write if I could write songs and music.


And as a bonus... TMBG "I'm Impressed"... andother video with robots...


Hell, while I'm at it... Another stop-motion-robot music video...

Grownups

From XKCD...

What do about friends' tumblrs

I have my issues with tumblr but I do understand the appeal. It is ideal for a purely personal/re-blogging blog (which is really no different from this one). It has become what LiveJournal once was but cleaner. Either way, I won't get a tumblr account because I would end up just posting the same things here.

But I do enjoy following friends tumblrs. I want to list the ones I follow but it doesn't seem quite right to put them in the same list as the other blogs and such that I have listed. Since my list updates (erratically) when there are new posts. Since tumblrs sometimes update a lot more often and often with out new content beyond comments from other tumblr's, they'd all end up at the top of the list all the time. Also, since it will end being friends' tumblrs and they will re-tumbl other tumbl posts, there will be a fair amount of redundant information (just like if you read Boing Boing and then read this blog).

So I'm going to make a separate list right below the one I've already listed.

I am also going to start pruning more blogs that don't get update often. If you haven't posted in a month... well, it's gonna get cut.

The Only Sports Game I am Ever Likely To Buy

Bloodbowl

Untitled Sal Lupo Project

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Art

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Ant Megapolis

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People with my name I want to meet

From twitter user "chrisscott" 

the "Thanks-A-Lot" Girl Scout cookies and Harpoon IPA are a perfect pairing for a Fri. afternoon

1981: Newspapers on your computer.

"...of the two to three thousand computers in the bay area..."
Also and era when dial-up charges were $5 an hour.

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Hellraiser Pincushion

From CRAFTZINE.com.

Bacon Explosion!

PapaSix forward me this receipe from BBQAddicts.com.  It's called Bacon Explosion.  I will be making this in the summer.  

Let me start with the shopping list:
2 pounds thick cut bacon
2 pounds Italian sausage
1 jar of your favorite barbeque sauce
1 jar of your favorite barbeque rub

That's it.  Bacon, sausage, sauce, rub.  

And God said, "It was good."

At some point yesterday I stumpled onto Topless Robot.

First, great name.

Second, I am certainly enjoying their level of geekitude. Like todays, The 10 Most Easily Averted Mad Science Disasters.

For example:

6) Improving Piranha Efficiency, Piranha/Piranha II

Piranha are like miniature sharks that live in fresh water and understand the value of teamwork. Step into the water they inhabit and they'll strip you down to the bone in seconds. Luckily, they are relatively fragile, able only to exist in their native warm-water rivers. Leave it to the Army to pump them up a bit, making them hardier, able to live in a wider variety of environments (including salt water) and, yes, smarter - then act all surprised when they escape and take down a camp full of kids downstream from the testing facility (Piranha). Then, unsatisfied with the carnage from the first batch of experiments, they figured adding some wings and the ability to breathe air would be a hot idea (Piranha II). It turned out about as well as you might expect.

GoateeSaver

Oh god. Look, I have had a goatee in the past. Sometimes I still end up growing one. The reason I do it now? Usually I haven't bought new razors and the blades are only sharp enough to shave the relatively easy areas of the cheeks and neck. Short answer: I do it when I'm lazy. So to have a tool (oh the irony of that word) to make goatee shaving easier is, well, mind boggling.

And, to be clear, this is a real product.

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TYR Button at 365inches

My friend Ben Whitehouse rocks.  Just sayin'.

The above is his Thank You, Robot button he made for his site 365inches.com.  I mentioned it before.  I am sure I will mention it again in the next 11-plus months.

It's the bowtie that really sells it.  Stick bowtie on anything and it becomes adorable.

Drinking the Rainbow

Years ago, a friend of mine was taken on a bar crawl for her birthday. They 'forced' her to "Drink the Rainbow." At each bar she had to drink a beverage/cocktail matching a color in the rainbow: Red, Orange. Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet. (If you are hard core, you can toss in infraded and ultraviolet, infrared being black and ultraviolet being white or clear.) You know, Bloody Mary, Screwdriver, something yellow (a Greyhound?), Grasshopper, etc. If I remember correctly she only made it through green.

This wonderful needle point from Craft made me think of it.

(via Boing Boing)

Edit: Here are some yellow cocktails.

Being Human

Toss in a mage, and you have most of my time in Minneapolis.

Microsoft's Songsmith

I posted awhile back the weird ad for Microsoft's you-sing-to-i-and-it-writes-music-for-you software.

There are a bunch of songs on youtube now.

Here's a personal favorite:
"White Wedding." Sung by Billy Idol. Music by the SongSmith Jug Band.

I am also like this when videos buffer slowly

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"You are making love at a very good pace."

I don't even want to spoil it by talking about it.

The LoveTrainer from Sega Toys.

(via Gizmodo)

 

EDIT: Sadly, a hoax.

The Pig and The Box

"When a pig named Pig discovers a magic box able to make twenty-seven copies of anything you throw in it, his life is turned upside down with excitement! But as word spreads about his new toy, he finds it's not as easy as it seems to be in charge of infinite possibilities, and he maybe overreacts just a smidge. Of course, it doesn't help to have a crazy squirrel around, dancing ballet in his underwear. That never made anyone stay calm."

A great kid's book about the dangers of DRM.

The Pig and The Box. (Free PDF can be found lower on the page but butying or donating is also good)_

Father and child

Sittng next to me is a father and his son (less than a year). The son is sitting on a large sofa, just being happy and mellow. The father had sat on the floor, leaning on the sofa. He is just staring at his child in an almost dreamlike bliss-state. You can see the utter awe on his face. It is the perfect picture of parental love.

Otters

Because I needed it today... otters.

(thanks Nicole!)

Frak Pak!

Watch the Battlestar Galactica premiere a couple of weeks ago, we noticed the name of the KFC BSG tie-in sweepstakes.  They had decided on giving it a name drawing on the language of the the show.

The Frak Pak Sweepstakes.

Here's the thing: On BSG, "frak" is a replacement word for "fuck."  In every sense.  It is not just a random swear word.  People use it exactly as on would use "fuck."  In one scene last season (actually the first half of this season... which was almost a year ago... very confusing), a character said, "I want you to frak me hard" (or something close).  It is of course the problem with trying to do an honestly hard edged military drama on normal tv.  You need swearing but can't.  In my brain, I just translate it to "fuck."

Of course, that means we all heard it as "The KFC Fuck Pack Sweepstakes."  Which is both awesome and insane.

Someone at KFC finally figured it out.

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Mothership Connection

INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Put your iPod or other music player on shuffle.
2. For each question, press the NEXT button to get your answer.
3. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS!

IF SOMEONE SAYS "IS THIS OKAY" YOU SAY?
"I Don't Wanna," Patsy Cline

WHAT WOULD BEST DESCRIBE YOUR PERSONALITY?
"Cotton Tail," Ella Fitzgerald

WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL?
"Afro," Erykah Badu

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE?
"Ain't Yet," Battlestar

WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO?
"Why Don't We Do It In The Road?" The Beatles

WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?
"Luck Be A Lady," Frank Sinatra

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT OFTEN?
"Don't Go," Yaz

WHAT IS 2+2?
Sneakin' Out The Hospital," The Beastie Boys

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND?
"Nite Klub," The Specials

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?
"Sit Down. Stand Up." Radiohead

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?
"The Gates of Paradise," Gabriel Byrne

WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
"My Last Pair Of Chucks," Lonesome Jack

WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?
"That Was Your Mother," Paul Simon

WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING?
"I Will Come Back Again (Maybe I'll Come Back)," Marlene Dietrich

WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?
"No One Said It Would Be Easy," Sheryl Crow

WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST?
"Black-Dove (January)," Tori Amos

WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST SECRET?
"Monkey Man," The Specials

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?
"Little Fury," The Breeders

WHAT'S THE WORST THING THAT COULD HAPPEN?
"Jesus Doesn't Want Me For A Sunbeam," Nirvana

HOW WILL YOU DIE?
"Still," Macy Gray

WHAT IS THE ONE THING YOU REGRET?
"The Toy Trumpet," Raymond Scott

WHAT MAKES YOU LAUGH?
"Hail Hail Spit n' Drool," The Hives

WHAT MAKES YOU CRY?
"Wild Honey Pie," The Beatles

WILL YOU EVER GET MARRIED?
"The Walk," The Cure

WHAT SCARES YOU THE MOST?
"I Wanna Be Sedated," The Ramones

DOES ANYONE LIKE YOU?
"Oceans," Pearl Jam

IF YOU COULD GO BACK IN TIME, WHAT WOULD YOU CHANGE?
"Been Caught Stealing," Jane's Addiction

WHAT HURTS RIGHT NOW?
"Thought I Knew You," Matthew Sweet

WHAT WILL YOU POST THIS AS?
"Mothership Connection," Parliament

I know January is a slow movie month but...

'Paul Blart' edges out 'Underworld 3' to win the weekend.

And this being the first weekend after Oscar noms.

But, Lorax, it is pretty awesome looking...

Yes. This video is disturbing for the extreme efficeincely at which this machine can cut down, strip and chop trees.

It is also insanely cool.


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