So you know that I plan on having many modes of transport when I’m rich. I have just learned of a new one - luxury submarines! I mean it’s so perfect, first of all it’s a submarine, right? Awesome? Yeah, and when the world is a nuclear wasteland, you’ll be able to easily avoid the [...]

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A little monday art.
You know what I hate? Anything that makes me deviate from a constant reclining position on my couch. The biggest culprit? Finding that damn remote. Fortunately Aussie scientists are working to relieve my pain by creating a system that let’s me control my TV (and other devices!) with my hand! That’s totally [...]

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Ok, remember back in ‘85 before Anthony Edwards was even Goose? That modern classic movie… Gotcha!? Well one underpin of that masterpiece was the Steve Jackson game Killer which was the rage for a little while having college kids running around attempting to kill each other with mock weapons. I always wanted to organize such [...]

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So you’ll remember the travesty that is the the London Olympics logo, right? Well Tokyo just unveiled its logo for the 2016 Olympics (via darrenbarefoot) as part of it’s bid. They say that it represents a traditional knot used to decorate gifts, which after they told me I can see. But really, when I saw [...]

Categories: breakfast links · japan

Social networking is totally in now, right? But why you ask? Well this dude has written a little piece on the psychology of it, it is about Facebook in particular but most of them are pretty generic social networking ideas. I mean he got me, collecting, low self esteem and nosiness are all why I [...]

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Welcome to the Wireless World! No, this isn’t no iPhone post, this is a Taser post! That’s right, Taser is welcoming you to the wireless world from 100 feet away with a 20 second, incapacitating jolt of electricity! Somehow they’ve crammed all sorts of interesting electronics into a standard 12 gauge shotgun shell that’ll deliver [...]

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So Howard sent me the 411 this weekend. Apparently JJ Abrams is producing a new movie which has very Cthulhuian overtones. Not much is known but there’s a trailer for it showing before Transformers (which I still haven’t seen…) [UPDATED the trailer to be the official apple one, thanks to Howard!]. But there’s also a [...]

Categories: breakfast links · movies · nyc

Reebok is making a line of sneakers inspired by Voltron! The 5 lions of voltron (i.e. the good one) not the one with all the vehicles. Sneakers! Can a live action movie be far behind? I mean after Transformers, I presume GI Joe and Thundercats will grace the silver screen and after Speed Racer hits, [...]

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So, for the first time since 1999, Nathan’s Hot Dog eating contest was won by an american! Joey Chestnut (for real? What an awesome name for the american winning back the belt!) at 66 hot dogs in 12 minutes vs a measly 63 for Takeru Kobayashi! Kobayashi, despite having a wisdom tooth pulled and diagnosed [...]

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No it isn’t some new tactic by Green Peace, arms manufacturer British Aerospace (BAE) has decided to go green with things like reduced-lead bullets and recyclable explosives. I’m sure that will be great consolation to all the people shot and blown up by said green weapons. Those fronts seem a little, well, contrived - I [...]

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