Archive for April, 2008
…But can it dance?
The below video (which is agonizingly slow, even when they speed it up to 5x), shows a robot that can reassemble itself after being kicked apart into three separate pieces.
The narrators explain how the robot (which appears to be made of the same cubes that Wall-E creates out of Earth’s trash) first identifies its separated [...]
This is how you sell your drugs
I think we can agree that location-based technology constitutes at least a material percentage of what is commonly referred to as “the rage.” Newer cameras keep track of where you took your pictures. Phones can now pinpoint (within 1700m) your global location. GPS systems for cars can now tell you where the [...]
China’s latest export? Irony.
Remember all those ‘Free Tibet’ flags being waved around the Olympic torch in protest? (Not a terrific plan, by the way. Torch : flag :: paper : rock.) Well, they’re made in China. That’s right. According to the BBC News article, the workers “thought they were just making colourful flags [...]
Possible band names for Ayn Rand’s indie rock group
Adam Smith and the Pure Capitalists
The Fountainheads
Death Cab for John Galt
The Objectivists
Flaming Libertarians
The Killers, in the form of a legally assisted suicide
Oh fuck.
Oh my Goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood, we’re fucked.
We Could Do This, Right?
So the guys at Kissing Suzy Kolber like to do mock drafts during the NFL off-season (specifically the pre-draft portion). They’ve covered a pretty wide range of topics, including fruits to eat on a desert island, movie deaths scenes you’d like to have as your own, and board games to play if you’re life [...]
Really, Southwest? Really?
Clearly, I am not the first person to blog about the shortcomings of Southwest Airlines. It’s just that I had a particular experience on Sunday night flying home to Chicago from Baltimore, the details of which I would rather not go into, so I will bullet-point summarize:
overhead compartment above my seat filled with flight attendant’s [...]
We Own the Night
I just watched We Own the Night, a 2007 movie with Jaoquin Phoenix, Mark Wahlberg, Robert Duvall, and Eva Mendes. I liked it, which means you should stay far, far, far away from this movie. I’m the guy who loved, and recommended, A History of Violence, a movie which made those who saw it on [...]
“No one puts Baby in the corner.” “I do. Because I’m her father. And she’s 16.”
Dirty Dancing\’s More Realistic Ending
As Mr. MacFarlane has shown, I am not the only one who has considered this to be a more realistic ending to Dirty Dancing. She’s 16 years old and from Long Island in 1961. Her father is Detective Lenny Briscoe, but without the wise cracks. He’s a 41 year old dance instructor [...]
Your “gun” is sticking into my hip
See what Ace Ventura did there? He used quotation marks (well, he just spoke the phrase, but you could tell there were quotation marks in the original screenplay) to imply that the word gun actually meant something else. That’s what quotation marks “do.” (I would link to a clip of Chris Farley’s Bennett Brauer here [...]