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3 Aug 2005
Save Your CursorYeah, I know the buttons are in Japanese. I worked it out, you can.
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28 Jul 2005
Office GunsIt started in a meeting. We were playing bullshit bingo, and on the third round I thought to myself: "Oh my God! Can't someone just shoot that bastard?" I was getting tired of bullshit bingo and was fingering with some office supplies. As a sworn Lego-fan, I always try to connect things together. I was connecting two Maulies, then suddenly one of them flew across the room and hit the boring speaker right on the nose. He got a nose-bleed and had to stop the presentation early.
Later that week, people came in to thank me. Some even brought chocolate. But most of them wanted to know where I had bought that fabulous gun. I showed them how it was made. They were thrilled and from that day on, we haven't had a single boring presentation.
Quotidian Hell provides this link for the purposes of information only and does not endorse the practise of attacking your co-workers with missiles constructed from office supplies. Although the IT guy better fucking watch himself.
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7 Jul 2005
Go here, stare at the little black cross, watch the violet dots disappear. Only the moving green dot is part of the gif - everything else that happens is your braaaiiinnn.
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14 Jun 2005
Apparently this has been around for a while, but anyway: The Fly Guy
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13 Jun 2005
I can't believe I didn't link to the squirrel yet.
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26 May 2005
Eat HuFuThe Healthy Human Flesh Alternative!
The taste and texture of HufuTM are the result of painstaking research and extensive testing in our kitchens. We are supremely confident that our food products would satisfy the tastes of even the most demanding cannibal.
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24 May 2005
Another example of science pursuing the bleeding obvious: Physicists uncover Eurovision biases
"This is arguably the only major international forum in which a given country can express its opinion about another, free of economic or governmental bias," the researchers say. They argue that a systematic pattern in voting can be revealing and have analysed vote networks between 1992 and 2003. Each country represents a point in the network, and links between them are forged when one country awards points to another.
Statistically, these networks turn out to be far from random: some countries form cliques that tend to vote in the same way and for each other. This is most evident for Greece and Cyprus, but the Nordic countries also tend to operate a block vote. Personally I find the occasional aberrations more amusing. Ukraine's attempt to make this year's contest a celebration of the Orange Revolution cost them the nine or eleven votes they'd usually expect to get from Russia - what I liked was how the Russians managed to give Ukraine one vote, just to rub it in.
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12 May 2005
Just got the two: Hiding Alarm ClockWhen the alarm clock goes off and the snooze button is pressed, Clocky will roll off the bedside table and wheel away, bumping mindlessly into objects on the floor until it eventually finds a spot to rest. Minutes later, when the alarm sounds again, the sleeper must get up out of bed and search for Clocky. This ensures that the person is fully awake before turning it off. Small wheels that are concealed by Clocky's shag enable it to move and reposition itself, and an internal processor helps it find a new hiding spot every day. The Art of Science
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4 May 2005
An April First story we missed. There has been a small outbreak of “zombism” in a small town near the border of Laos in North-Eastern Cambodia.
The culprit was discovered to be mosquitoes native to that region carrying a new strain of Malaria which thus far has a 100 percent mortality rate and kills victims in fewer than 2 days.
After death, this parasite is able to restart the heart of its victim for up to two hours after the initial demise of the person where the individual behaves in extremely violent ways from what is believed to be a combination of brain damage and a chemical released into blood during “resurrection.”
Cambodian officials say that the outbreak has been contained and the public has no need to worry. Also - 666 the number of the beast
Hell and fire was spawned to be released Erm, apparently not. A newly discovered fragment of the oldest surviving copy of the New Testament indicates that, as far as the Antichrist goes, theologians, scholars, heavy metal groups, and television evangelists have got the wrong number. Instead of 666, it's actually the far less ominous 616...
Professor David Parker, Professor of New Testament Textual Criticism and Paleography at the University of Birmingham, thinks that 616, although less memorable than 666, is the original. He said: "This is an example of gematria, where numbers are based on the numerical values of letters in people's names. Early Christians would use numbers to hide the identity of people who they were attacking: 616 refers to the Emperor Caligula." Pffft. Eggheads, whadda they know? See you at the Time Travellers' Convention.
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26 Apr 2005
Guess-the-GoogleAnother Google retrofit - here we guess the keyword search that generated the selection of images.
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13 Apr 2005
Have we directed your attention to Tokyo Plastic and their innovative use of flash before? If not, how remiss of us. If so, feh. Check out the Taiko Drummers - who seem to be more easily accessed here.
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4 Apr 2005
Stick WorkLarge sculpture installations woven from twigs and branches. Nice and eerie.
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