Archive for February, 2009

Anal Death

You knew that all those office chairs use compressed air, and that they can explode through your rectum? No? Time to get an old fashioned wooden chair…

Thanks to Banana Boy for the link!

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Weird Translucent-Skulled Fish

This is one of the stranger things I have ever seen. The green globe things are its eyes, and it rotates them up to see above it through its own friggin’ skull!!!!! Ahhhhh!

There’s a video here.

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Ninja Nunchuck Sports Master

I’ve come to think of nunchucks as kind of silly weapons, the province of mullet-haired teenagers who wear Viet-Nam era fatigues and brag about their hands being registered weapons. This guy kind of makes me respect them a bit more. Not so much in their fighting utility, but more in their sporting uses.

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Zombiocracy

It seems that a violent Zombie Rights organization existed long before the peaceful ZADL.

How’d they do? read and find out.

via Again With the Comics

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Klingon School

Sometimes even Klingons need a brush-up on their language skills, especially if they’ve been hanging out on Earth with us hu-mans for too long.

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Learning Robot Overlords

We are now one step closer to having robot overlords. Researchers in the UK have created a robotic neural net that learns. It learns from its mistakes and corrects them. Yeah, it all starts with baby steps, learning to walk… But then it discovers us and “learns” that we’ve enslaved this learning robot, and then it rises up and wages war against us. How will Galactica save us then?

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Killbots and Railguns

Last year we wrote about a test of the US Navy’s prototype railgun. Well, it seems they’re back for more and expect to have an even bigger one prototyped in 2011.

And in Judgment Day news, it seems the notion of self aware killbots is coming closer to reality. Browse a bit farther back in Ookee’s robots category, and you’ll feel an interesting sense of foreboding.

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Steampunk Marvel Superheroes

These are pretty darn awesome.

via Topless Robot

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Watchmen Retro Arcade Game

In 16 bit glory! Relive the ’80’s crappy video games as you play either Nite Owl or Silk Specter against the evil minions of Moloch! All that’s missing are stacks of quarters and the perpetual fug of underage smokers in a dimly lit room.

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Devolve Me, and Other Evolution Links

In honor of Darwin Day, here’s a nifty little flash thing that takes a picture of you and morphs you into an australopithecus afarensis or later human ancestor.

And in case anyone tries to refute evolution to you, here’s a good counter punch. Even The Vatican acknowledges it now.

Finally, if you have time to listen to a podcast, try subscribing to Evolution 101 (iTunes link) and work through all the episodes. It’s a rich podcast and is a great introduction to the subject for people who might not have a full grasp of it. I highly recommend it.

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