Fun Stuff

Robots continue to make great strides toward conquering the human race

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Alright, this video is pretty awesome, and also pretty frightening at the same time. Basically, three types of robots work together (a concept apparently known as a “swarminoid”) to find a book and retrieve it.

Tell me you can’t envision these things taking over the world?? There is something particularly creepy about the eyebots and the way they move.

On the other hand, I love how much information they communicate just by some color changing lights. You can tell when they find the book, you can see the information traveling from robot to robot, just by a change of color.

You can see a little more information here.

Wanted for Skullduggery

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One morning I woke up and my victory mustache was gone. Its work was done, and it rode off into the sunset, like the Lone Ranger.

My brother’s ‘stache, on the other hand, decided to hang around. It has since morphed into something a little different:

So, if you see Snidely Whiplash skulking around tying women to train tracks, it’s probably just my brother. Please return him to me. In the meantime, don’t try to transport any money by train, and beware old-timey piano music. That is all.

Dear Photograph

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I came across a really cool website today, Dear Photograph. Basically, people take old photographs and overlay them onto the scene as it currently exists. (Note that all of the pictures are from tumblr and the links will therefore expire!)

It is interesting how some thing stay the same:

and some things change:

The captions of the people who submit the photos are surprisingly touching:

Dear Photograph, Dad never took a picture of me, ever. Then I noticed his reflection in the glass. Happy Father’s Day, Dad. Anonymous

Just because of the nature of what they are doing, a lot of pictures and captions involved relationships between kids and parents, and nothing gets me verklempt faster.

Here are some more that I really enjoyed:

There are plenty more over at the website, go check them out!

The Japanese make some weird commercials

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It’s a stereotype that American actors make bizarre foreign commercials that they themselves don’t really understand to make a quick buck. Why these commercials is so bizarre is quite beyond me. It’s obviously something cultural (in fact, if you recall, that was the entire setup for the movie Lost in Translation). But that’s fine because the celebrity makes some dough, and, thanks to the magic of the Internet, we get to laugh at them.

So go check out the 11 most ridiculous Japanese ads featuring American celebrities, and come back here to discuss.

It’s very hard to pick a favorite. I love the “trademark Michael J. Fox moment”, and the Hulk Hogan one is almost creepy. (He did give that song his all though, you have to give him that.) However, the “most incomprehensible” award is a tie between the Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger ones. What in the world is going on there? What are they even selling? (Well, Arnold is selling some kind of drink, but that’s about all I know.)

I bet they all hoped these would never see the light of day!

The fate of the world rests on this poll

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Because what good is the Internet if not for settling ridiculous debates? (Not between Sara and I, for what it’s worth)