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Links for December 11th 2009 through December 15th 2009:

• ‘I’m Sorry, But We Blew Up Your Laptop’ – MacBook – Gizmodo – Lily was traveling to Tel Aviv. For some reason, the Israeli security officers thought she was suspicious. So they put three bullets through her MacBook.
• China Hosts Cross-Century Robot Fair | botropolis.com – Guangzhou in southern China is hosting a “Cross-Century Robot Fair” with exhibits of educational and entertaining robots.
• LOL Factory: Christmas Light Hero – Christmas lights played with a Guitar Hero interface.
• LOL Factory: Dangerous Wands – Danngerous Minds meets Harry Potter in this funny spoof trailer
• Topless Robot – There’s Something Wrong with His Kids! – Doc Brown's kid Verne is terrifyingly filthy and perverted
• YouTube Doubler Beta | Mashup Helper – Cool app to make your own mashup with youtube videos.
• Bendërbrau now a reality – Hack a Day – Futuramas inspired beer.

Links for February 6th 2009

• Bear Hugs: $2 – Neatorama – Zookeepers in Cairo are charging visitors to actually go inside the animal cages. Hugging bears, feeding crocodiles, pestering seals and provoking lions can all be achieved for under ten bucks!
• YouTube – R2S2 – The Steam Powered R2D2 Robot from Crabfu – Crabfu SteamWorks built a really awesome, steam powered R2D2 robot they call "R2S2".
• Trylon Viper – Inspired by the Colonial Viper from Battlestar Galactica the Trylon Viper can seat two.
• Sci-Fi Channel: Lagoon, Zombie, Aliens – Three posters for the Sci-Fi Channel, spoofing popular horror and science fiction tropes.
• Zuse Z3 at the Deutsches Museum « pagetable.com – The Z3 by Konrad Zuse was the world’s first working digital Turing-complete computer. It did floating point arithmetic, had two registers accessible to the programmer, was microcoded, and clocked at about 5 Hz.
• Pimp my browser: how to turn Firefox into a blogging machine – Ars Technica – Firefox's rich add-on ecosystem allows us to bend the browser to our will and deck it out with features to do almost anything. If you are a blogger, there are quite a few add-ons that can turn Firefox into a great tool for drafting posts, saving Web snippets, finding topical content, and more.
• Wonderland: Playstation soap – Hand made with olive oil, and shaped like a playstation controller.
• Robin Hood’s "Oo De Lally," Translated Into 13 Languages – Waxy.org – There's something enchanting about these localized versions of Roger Miller's "Oo De Lally" from Disney's Robin Hood from 1973.
• StarWars.com | Checklist: 10 Star Wars Superweapons – the past 30 years of Star Wars storytelling has become a graveyard littered with the carcasses of unthinkable superweapons. Well, maybe not too unthinkable, since the bad guys keep coming up with them. Here's a primer on some of the doomsday devices that have plagued our heroes since '77.
• Topless Robot – The 12 Best UFOs That Ever Invaded Movie Screens – In the mid-1940s and the 1950s, scores of people began to report seeing mysterious flying discs in the sky. It could have been mass hysteria caused by the trauma of going through one massive war and the fear of another, but Hollywood was happy to capitalize on the paranoia. Aliens ships descended on the cinema and have continued blowing up Washington, D.C. to this day. Here are the 12 best UFOs that have ever invaded movie screens.
• Top 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Pornography – The List Universe – Erotica has existed since man first was able to think. A once large industry has now burst out as a giant in entertainment due to the Internet. Most people with access to the net has seen pornography either intentionally or accidentally. This list takes a look at some of the more obscure facts surrounding pornography.
• The Top 10 Songs That Killed Hip-Hop – Hip-hop just may be the most popular music genre on the face of the planet and for good reason. It’s raw, real and unpredictable. But in recent years the music revolution that started in New York over twenty five years ago has been dying a slow death. For some reason, wannabe hip-hop artists with little talent have decided to pervert the genre by manufacturing bubblegum garbage for the masses. If hip-hop isn’t dead yet, it is definitely in critical condition.

Links for January 30th 2009 from 15:41 to 16:58:

• 10 Moments in Music Censorship History – with music videos for all to see
• Concept Art: A Trilobite Made of Welded Steel and Time – Its carapace has turned to steel in the hundreds of millions of years since it went extinct, but the watch in this Trilobite’s brain never stops tracking the seconds passed since the Cambrian ended.
• FLOODING MCDONALD’S – Superflex are a radical art collective from Copenhagen, with previous hits including a burnt out car and an intriguing ‘Free Beer' enterprise. With their latest exhibit they have flooded a McDonalds.
• The Top 11 Most Depressing Songs of All Time – There’s just something about a depressing song that can instantly shift your mood from light to dark. A lot of music listeners out there will even use gloomy and emotional songs to put themselves in a low-spirited state. If you're one of those people, these are the songs most likely to make you want to wallow in the darkness.
• Bacon Bra » Funny, Bizarre, Amazing Pictures & Videos – indeed, a bra made of bacon.
• YouTube – Prison Escape Fail – These Two People Escape From A Prison Tied TOgether By Handcuffs So They Decide To Do This
• LEGO’s Digital Box Kiosks Use Augmented Reality To Bring The Models To Life – LEGO will apparently be rolling out these new ‘Digital Box’ kiosks to select toyshops around the world that allow you to see a 3D representation of what the LEGO model looks like when fully assembled.
• sansa clip in the hole!: grenade mp3 player – Explosive modder Matt purchased some decommissioned test grenades and decided that it would make for a great MP3 player shell. So does it? Yesno.
• 10 things your great grandchildren won’t remember – we’ve put together a list of 10 things you may be familiar with now, but when your great grandchildren are growing up, they’ll be all like “lol what, people used to sit in front of computers when they worked?”
• Anakin’s Lightsaber Flashlight – Dropping half a grand on a replica lightsaber from a company like Master Replicas isn’t for everyone, but if you’ve got a Star Wars itch to scratch this cheap lightsaber flashlight could do the trick.
• Paramount Takes Trek Merchandise to Warp Nine | The Underwire from Wired.com – Paramount and CBS are going all-in with J.J. Abrams' Star Trek this summer, and the merchandising frenzy is set to arrive before the film's summer premiere.
• DNA Art: The Most Awesome Science Video About DNA Ever Made – It's hard to explain DNA replication, transcription, and protein building in an accessible but non-dumbed-down way. This quick, elegant video does it, though: You get the full story with helpful visualizations.

Links for January 28th 2009 from 12:28 to 13:34:

• Hello Kitty Keyboard | GeekAlerts – Great news for those of you who have a thing for computer accessories inspired by a certain japanese cat, like this webcam, the USB fan and this small speaker. You will now be able to expand your collection with this brand new Hello Kitty keyboard.
• Bandai’s New Speaker Looks Like Tokyo | GeekAlerts – This new and impressive diorama speaker from the Japanese toy manufacturer Bandai has been designed to look like the Ginza district in Tokyo, Japan did back in 1955.
• YouTube – Dancing Inside – Originally conceived to synch with "Stayin' Alive", the famous Bee Gees disco number used in Saturday Night Fever, this (crude!) stop-motion animation has been re-cut for You Tube with a swaggering ragga/house/dancehall floor-filler called 'Consequences' by Andy Higgs.
• Covered – Comic covers recovered.
• Restored Brooklyn Subway Art Offers Trip to 1970s – NYTimes.com – The New York City subway is full of more or less secret works of art, salvos of illicit shape and color that you can appreciate only if your Lexington Avenue train slows near an abandoned platform or you make a life-threatening spelunk into the tunnels and stumble across scraps of manic autobiographical wall writings painted by a semi-mythical graffiti artist known as Revs.
• Mangajet! | Doktorsblog – awesome jetplane with manga and anime paintings on it
• How to Get Things Done with Twitter | Zen Habits – Let’s face it: a growing number of people are using Twitter these days, spending a lot of time on Twitter, and still need to get things done on Twitter. If you want to spend a lot of time conversing with people on Twitter, that’s great … but many people still need to get their tasks done. Let’s take a look at how to do that.
• YouTube – Wrestling "Holy Shit" Moment 229 – Awesome Japanese wrestling fail
• TOP 50 BEST MOVIE DEATHS Movie Feature at TheShiznit.co.uk – Movie deaths are an integral part of the filmmaker's arsenal. Can you imagine how dull flicks would be without the occasional fatality, assassination or cheeky moider? They offer a chance for imagination and inventiveness and have given the creators of the Saw series an outlet that has probably stopped them going on a killing spree in real life. But the most important thing to know about movie deaths is that they are so much cooler than your Nan's.
• Nikon D3 Cut In Half « Tokyobling’s Blog – a Nikon D3 cut in half for all of our camera porn pleasures!
• LiveLeak.com – Para-Glider With A Steel Lined Stomach. – CRAZIEST PARAGLIDER EVER
• Flickr Fotodownload: Big Red Ball of Yarn – A big red ball of yarn … and someone's in it!
• YouTube – Time lapse of a baby playing with his toys – "Time laps of Charles-Edward, my 9 month old son, playing with his toys and creating chaos in the dinning room."
• Living Moss Carpet Adds a Touch of Green to Your Bathroom – This Moss Carpet by Nguyen La Chanh brings the outside indoors in an unconventionally natural way by placing it underfoot. The lush green lawn thrives in humid environments, which makes your bathroom a perfect place to grow.
• Camera Sock Art Doesn’t Stink | Walyou – This is great Camera Artwork that is created by actual socks and believe me…these socks do not stink and neither does the art. It is a great design by Netta Amir that shows socks do not have to be only made into sock puppets.

Links for January 25th 2009:

• Obama Chia Pet – Boing Boing Gadgets –
• Video: Wood Chopper From Hell – From trees to toothpicks in 15 seconds.
• Kevin Kelly — Technology, or the Evolution of Evolution – When we look at technology we see pipes and blinking lights. But in the cosmic view, technology is the acceleration of evolution.
• Offworld – Plain Sight is a 3D multiplayer arcade game with robots; robots who bounce around cityscapes on mini planetoids and wield swords which are used to destroy one another.
• Record Store Documentary "The Final Days of Full Circle Records".wmv – The Final Days Of Full Circle Records – A Documentary By Michael Greene. In October of 2006, a small mom and pop record store in Southern New Jersey named Full Circle Records announced that it was going out of business and that the liquidation sale would continue until mid December.
• Superman: The Man Of Steel… And Braaaaiiinnnsss – He may have died and returned to life in the early '90s, but this summer, DC Comics are going to give us what we've all been waiting for: Zombie Superman. No, really.
• YouTube – Dr Zeus, Light Sabers, 12KW Tesla Coils – Dr Zeus aka Terry Blake energizes his brilliant new light sabers with two 12 kilowatt Tesla coils that produce music through the sparks.
• ‘Flying Car’ Goes to Market : Discovery News – The aptly named Transition takes a stab at bridging the gap between automobiles and airplanes. Some people call it a flying car. The company designing and selling the vehicle prefers the term “roadable aircraft.”
• Celebrity Zombies – Photoshop contest – When celebrities die and then… undie.
• YouTube – Johannes Kreidler – Charts Music – Melodies derived from Stock Charts, arranged with Microsoft's Composition Software "Songsmith".