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Shot in a single take, this music video of My Robot Friend’s “Robot Highschool” is about a song that “allegorically questions what happens when our perspective and views of reality are manipulated by those in authority without any moral concern for the outcome.” Whoa, think about it.

…it was easy to be great. Every entertainer has a night when everything is clicking. These nights are accidental and statistical: like lucky cards in poker, you can count on them occurring over time. What was hard was to be good, consistently good, night after night, no matter what the circumstances. Performing in so many [...]

Cheeseburger in a can. No, seriously.

Google seems to have been causing some bit of excitement at the Davos Conference in Switzerland: its planned major Asian data center is sending off Asian heads of state’s knickers in a twist.
The Prime Minister of Malaysia has announced that Google (GOOG) is interested in building a data center in Malaysia. The announcement comes just [...]

Inventor and sax player Peter Davey calls his invention the “sonic boiler” — a little device that looks like a bent lamp that can instantly boil water using sound waves. And nobody seems to know how exactly it works.
Davey, who lives in a tumbledown two-storey historic homestead called Locksley in Dallington, has been using the [...]

Look into these eyes, sexy thing.

“I love you, yeah it was the best, which night was the best 4 you, I’m sensitive but not sore, you were good…”

– One of the text messages sent by 27-year-old teacher Rebecca Dawn Bogard to the lucky 15-year-old bastard she had sex with. Reminding us of our own barren, wasted youth.

Bill Gates dances with an iPod.

Bush pumps gas.

The Queen on the loo.
It doesn’t matter to the viewer if the portrayal is not the ‘real’ – as long as it looks like him or her – it creates a temporary confusion. This is the confusion the work searches to create. We think we are [...]

People should do this everyday, everywhere, forever.

Forget about Transformers (but don’t forget Megan Fox!). If Seth Goldstein and his team at Carnegie Mellon University would have their way, the future would be “peopled” by robots that easily change shape.
Called “claytronics,” these robots will be composed of swarms of microscopic robots that can morph into virtually any form by clinging together. Sure, [...]

Rage against the machine? The machine rages against you. This robot could have been stomping on people and destroying human cities, but here it is just being cute and all. See that CCTV thing straddling that pole? Yeah, we noticed that, too. Gundam just got a boner.

It’s been going around for a while, we’ve been discussing it quite a while. We could have found a nippy title – we had plenty of suggestions that would look good on the poster. But we made a lot of effort last time around to take the film to a new place, and we want [...]

This is probably nothing, but researchers — who, we are assured, are not actually card-bearing members of the highly prestigious “We Love Small Tits” World Organization — found that women who develop nice, big breasts during adolescence have about three times higher risk for developing type 2 diabetes.
Results showed that, compared with women who recalled [...]

”Every time I go into the doctor’s office or the dentist’s office or a hospital anywhere, I’ve always got my eye out for it. Naturally, I’m proud of the fact that I was able to come up with something, or direct a program that evolved into this symbol that’s so widely recognized, so helpful. But [...]

More very helpful baby care instructions after the jump.
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Yolen Jeunky, 45, collects dried mud cookies to sell in Cite Soleil in Port-au-Prince,Thursday, Nov. 29, 2007. Rising prices and food shortages threaten the nation’s fragile stability, and the mud cookies, made of dirt, salt and vegetable shortening, are one of very few options the poorest people have to stave off hunger.
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WowWee’s Roboquad throws its weight around in an attempt to impose supremacy. Note that the Roboquad here is in “autonomous mode,” with its aggression level set to high. The robot looks dominant, alright, but wait till somebody pits it against a hippopotamus. Or this guy.