Robots have become a big thing in the past few years. Some of them are even becoming useful in many ways. But who cares about useful when you got 5 robots that you don’t want to see in your worst nightmares. (via Digg)
Borat Scores No. 1 Opening, Gets Sued By Mahir
Good news for Borat fans – the Borat movie (“Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan”), took the number 1 position in US and Canada box offices last weekend. You can read about it in this BBC article.
Normally I wouldn’t mention it, but Borat just got sued by someone who just featured as #24 of PC World’s 25 worst websites list, namely Mahir Cagri of IKissYou.org. I guess Mahir took Borat’s “sew the jew” initiative seriously. (via Slashdot)
Windows Vista
So much is being said these days about Windows Vista, Microsoft’s new version of its operating system, which will be released at the end of this month, that I decided I have nothing to add. Hopefully, I won’t upgrade to Vista any time soon and my next desktop will be a Linux machine. I wouldn’t have written all this unless this promotional video for Windows Vista hadn’t showed up. I have 3 words to sum it up, and I quote: “Coming October 2003”. (via Digg)
Speed Spray?
When I saw this “gadget” (I really don’t know how to categorize this product) my thoughts went from “this is so stupid” to “can this actually work?”. Anyway, you can decide for yourselves if the WiFi Speed Spray is something you would use. (via Digg)
Cool MIT Machine Sketch Interpretation
MIT created ASSIST (which stands for: A Shrewd Sketch Interpretation and Simulation Tool). It’s kind of hard to describe what it does, but fortunately for all of us, there’s a cool video demonstration. (Thanks to Itai for the link)
The 20 Funniest Computer Geek Humor Bits of All Time
If you’re a computer geek, this collection will probably make you laugh. (via Digg)
Banana Guard – I Always Wanted To Protect My Banana. No… Seriously
We haven’t had a stupid gadget for ages, but the makers of BananaGuard decided to lay upon us their latest invention… and it’s only $6.35 US. (via Gizmodo)
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Can anyone tell why the title of their website is “ClearSpeed – Why Acceleration?” ? I can’t. Maybe the BananaGuard can’t stand high speeds.
Extreme… Diet Coke and Mentos
The original Diet Coke and Mentos video showed what happens when you put some Mentos in a bottle of diet coke (the bottle sprays diet coke as if it was shaken badly). Google started spreading the Extreme Diet Coke and Mentos video as a “tribute” to the domino effect an online video can have.
More importantly, other than being fun to watch, this video is the first ad sponsored Google video and marks a new era in the online videos market. Watch out for video and audio ads. They’re coming soon.
The Mars Volta – Amputechture
I found The Mars Volta while looking for new music on the Internet. Unfortunately, this band is extremely hard to share with other people, as their Rock music is very alternative. It’s so alternative that I have to listen to their albums a few dozen times until I can get the structure of the songs and enjoy them. Why do I even give them a chance, you ask? Because even in the first time you listen to the album you can tell that it’s the work of extremely talented people, and you get hooked by the parts of it that are easier on the ears.
Here’s a quote from the review of their new album, called Amputechture, by The Rolling Stone magazine. It pretty much sums it up:
The long version: Cedric Bixler-Zavala and Omar Rodriguez-Lopez dissolved At the Drive-In, the most promising punk-rock band of the late Nineties, then formed a sprawling progressive-rock ensemble that recorded two albums composed of frenetic multipart suites at a time when doing so amounted to commercial suicide. The short version: The Mars Volta got away with murder.
Creative Video Commercials Collection
Here’s a collection of very creative video commercials. Plus, here’s another one of Sony Bravia’s commercials and its making. Enjoy. (via Digg)