Nighthack

With a name like Nighthack I was thinking this was some kind of clandestine terror organisation prone to long nights of gaming and network hax0r1ng. However I'd be wrong and way wrong indeed. Nighthack is a glow in the dark hackysack. Plus there is a strobe effect one that pulses. I'd like to see one in action but I don't think they'd compare to the age old technique of dipping a football in petrol and setting it on fire.

The perfect omnivore

For years mankind has dreamed of destroying the sun..... No wait for years mankind has been an omnivore and has survived when millions of other species have failed because their diets are too specific. Find out here why you should learn to be a true omnivore and what makes people give up bread, wine, chocolate, meat and all kinds of other crazy stuff. Hey this isn't the greatest article in the world and the guy that wrote it seems a little full of himself but its mildly interesting reading for a Friday afternoon.

$11M Wire

I'm so buying me some of this $11M 'Miracle Polymer' wire. Its made out of nanotubes which means its gotta be good, right? Plus the article mentions that in the future they are planning to build a nanotube elevator directly to the stars (well space at least) and you'll be able to travel to the moon in 10 minutes using nanotubes. Plus as an added bonus your computer will be 80 times faster and will do your laundry while you drink beer on the couch.

Beer makes me smrt... i mean smart

Fresh from another battering by health advocates who claim that beer causes you to drive badly and enjoy listening to old Michael Jackson songs comes news that in fact beer makes you smarter. Supposedly consuming a moderate amount of alcohol can help the formation of new nerve cells in the brain! What's got me worried is the word "moderate" and the fact that the experiment was done on mice. I mean really how can you tell if a mouse is getting smarter. The following is a reenactment of what occurred in the lab.

Scientist 1 "Look he found the cheese in 3 seconds this time"
Scientist 2 "Maybe he was just hungrier"
Scientist 1 "Nah it was that beer we gave him earlier"
Scientist 2 "He seems much brighter, I guess"
Scientist 1 "See, told you must've been the beer"
Scientist 2 "I guess, although he does have a much greater desire for kebabs now"

New Art

Everybody likes art and this fine painting by freedom is clearly a bargain at only $14M. Aah sword in my dreams I know I'll be taking out a loan equivalent to third world debt to get you.

Thanks Kathleen!

Update!! The painting is back with another listing of $14M, I really don't think its going to sell this time any better than last time. He needs to drop it to around $12M to have a bit more chance I think.

Extras to follow the office

Everbody loved Britain's best comedy series in ages (although little britain comes close), the office. Well turns out Ricky Gervais the main guy behind the office has been working on a new series called extras. You can see a teaser trailer for extras here along with other information about the show which is almost certain to be a hit. The show is supposedly about an actor who finds it difficult to get parts and includes a bunch of cameos and stuff from all kinds of people. But don't just believe me.... go to the site and check it out.

Guess-the-google search

A mildly interesting game to keep you occupied during the long hours between morning tea and brunch is the Guess-the-google game. Basically it displays a bunch of images that were found using a search word in google and you have to guess what the word is. Its kind of fun but they needed a greater variety of search words. If you play a couple of times you get to know all the answers pretty quick.

Via J-Walk blog

Toilet Restaurant?

I dunno about eating of these toilet plates, or the fact that some of the food looks like it came from a toilet but the Toilet Restaurant certainly is an interesting idea. There are some more pics here but none of the sites are really super informative about how you get past your initial nausea of eating from a toilet while sitting on a toilet with food that looks like a toilet. Mmmm tasty.

Room Puzzles

I've seen quite a few "Can you escape from this room" puzzles over the last couple of weeks so I thought I'd blog a few of them here so if you're bored you can try to escape. I got out of the crimson room pretty easily but haven't really had too much of a chance to try the viridian room or the blue chamber. I think those three were all by the same guy but here is another puzzle by someone else following the escape the room mentality. Happy clicking and despite the email claims that only people with IQs can escape these rooms predominently they are point and click and not really very smart at all.

Absinthe History

I always wanted to know more about trusty old Absinthe the beverage of choice amongst crazy 18th century Parisienne poets but had been lazy in my attempts to discover more. There seems to be some controversy surrounding the exact origins of the drink with some claiming the ancient greeks and romans were big fans while others claiming it an entirely a french invention. Still there seems to be little doubt that Madame de Coulanges was responsible for the popularity of the drink after it supposedly cured her of an upset stomach. Plus the hallucinations were an added bonus. Still the internet is a wonderful resource and contains lots of wonderful information about Absinthe so read on and learn something fools.

Aaaalrighty then Simpsons Mp3s

For those fools in love with the Simpsons as much as me comes the Simpson's Mp3 page with a whole bunch of music that you should download mighty quickly because you are too lazy to do the conversions yourself from a bunch of old video tapes. Pretty soon I'll be mixing up my own Simpsons cd (to go with the couple they actually released) of my favourite simpsons tunes. The best bit still has to be the bit where Sideshow Bob sings the complete score of the HMS Pinafore. Pure gold.

Sushi Robots

If they combined the sushi robot with the walking death machines previously featured on this very blog you could feed your indomitable monkey army while they ran through suburbia terrorising all your enemies. Man that'd be pretty cool, but seriously the sushi I make at home is kind of dodgy, it doesn't roll quite properly and although it still tastes good it doesn't have that supreme japanese maximum mega performace good appearance. So I'm gonna invest in one of these bad boys and forever more I will have perfect sushi!

Thanks BoingBoing

Thong for Straya

Coming up on ANZAC day I thought I'd include a product that could be defined as Strayan (Australian for those with british accents) and what could be more Strayan than a thong (flip flop for the rest of the world) that comes with a built in beer opener on the bottom. Imagine my surprise however that the company that is marketing the opener thong (click on the fanning) was actually founded by some Argentinians. Now although the Fanning is named after a true Strayan I'm terribly disappointed in Straya because we could not release the thong on our own.

Car Exhaust now good

See all those millions of tonnes of car fumes that are made every day had to have some practical use every now and then. Now some guys in Adelaide are proposing using the cars exhaust to run some kind of air conditioning. I mean thats a pretty sweet deal and all, the car runs on less fuel, you get mighty cold and pass out from the carbon monoxide and crash into a tanker filled with fuel. Now thats a pretty good deal all round really.

Trusty Hotmail

Most people have used hotmail at some point throughout their web careers and many people have reported a bunch of problems. Personally I don't really have anything against hotmail, its a free service after all. It may be slow and may not meet everyones needs but its mostly reliable. Anyway that's just me, this guy has had a rather interesting encouter with the support staff at hotmail after many problems trying to use hotmail through outlook. If I was him I probably would've said Goodbye Hotmail a long time beforehand. His story kinds of reminds me of the times I've tried to contact Dell support personnell, who also seem to struggle to comprehend English or even the most basic problem.

WRX ATV Vehicle

So you've got a ridiculous amount of cash and a knowledge of mechanical and automotive engineering. Well you could decide to build yourself a Subaru WRX ATV vehicle. Although only in construction phase this plain ridiculous concept could revolutionise the ways you could kill yourself on a farm. Besides a tractor falling on you, you could smash at 180kmh into a cow. That'd be a pretty cool explosion.

Pope former member of hitler youth.

Yes well initially I was shocked by the fact that everbodies new favourite pope was a member of the hitler youth, but that isn't the full story. In Germany at the time all people who turned 14 were required by law to join the hitler youth so it was unlikley that new popey just signed up out of his need to join the cause. Still it makes for an interesting story, if you want information on the new pope the wikipedia entry has plenty of useful facts and tidbits.

Computer of Pure Light

I always wanted a computer made out of pure light. I mean think of how fast you could run tetris while checking your emails. Supposedly light computers will soon be the way of the future as they are capable of speeding past a normal feeble silicone computer while chucking wheelies and downloading porn mega fast. The only problem is the fact that they have to be kept at close to absolute zero to prevent the light escaping and running around terrorising your neighbour's cat. See below for a fine artists rendition of how the computer might look.

Darth Vader Voice Mask

So you can't get enough Star Wars and wish that you could sound like Darth Vader. I know every other blog in the history of the world is commenting on this today but it was just too cool to pass up. You too can walk around like you've smoked 10 packs a day for the last 30 years and needed 5 lung replacements. Well the Darth Vader Voice Mask is the way to go. Features include "comes with instructions" and "includes 3 AA batteries". What more could you want!!!

Evergrowing Genetic Super Army

Some of the scientists in the lab have taken time off from the monkeys and have been focussing on the smaller and potentially much more deadly super fly. In this particular experiment they have created some form of headless (but still living) fruitflies and then stimulated their movement through firing lasers at their head. This can supposedly stimulate the neurons and maybe even induce the fly into flight. Pretty freaky if you ask me.

Via BoingBoing

How to light a fire

Here we see some fine young individuals demonstrating the correct technique for bonfire lighting. As a basic idea of what you need to do, get as much petrol as you can and some highly flammable stuff add a lighter and voila, breakfast is served. Plus it can deep fry a buffalo in 40 secs.

Monkey Butlers Unite

Recently my thousands of monkey butlers have been gaining a level of intelligence and willpower that has lead them to question why they should serve no other purpose than to make me long island ice tea's at 3 o'clock in the morning. They then formed a union and demanded that their payment be increased to two bags of peanuts a day plus an extra bag on public holidays. This kind of insubordination will send me broke, so I was thinking of sending my monkeys to the butler academy. There my monkey butler can learn the true way to serve and how to be quiet and not throw faeces through the exciting bits in movies. If you are looking for replicas of my monkeys you can find them here, remember now that these statues are made from the remains of previous monkey butlers that have served throughout the years.

Japan Jan-Feb 2005

Despite many promises for thousands of pictures of Japan I have been somewhat lax in actually bothering to put them on the web. Plus I have also been exploring options of which online photo site to use. I have become annoyed with the limits on webshots and also the crappy slow user interface, so my old photos will remain here but no more shall be posted. New photos will now be found on flickr and the following is a link to my Japan photos on flickr. You can also find my flickr homepage here with many more photos to be added over the coming months.

HK studies high rise mausoleum

While in Hong Kong a few months ago I saw a huge number of cemeteries that were packed and took up heaps of super valuable land. See the bottom of the picture below for a really bad example. Well it turns out that like everything else in HK cemeteries are now going to be multi-story! Looks like a pretty sweet deal to be cremated and then placed upon the 200th floor of some giant building.

Space aliens stole my week

Despite claims that this blog may have been taken over by space aliens because we hit the magical 2000 hits mark it just not true. Sure maybe they kidnapped me and there was probably some anal probes involved but I recall nothing. At least thats what I told the CIA after they interrogated me for ending up naked in a field in southern texas. Well I've returned now and you can expect normal blog service to resume right now!!! So after my extraterrestrial experience I sat down to find out how normal I really was, and now you can too. The thing claimed I was 70% normal, but my guess is that it really doesn't mean anything. Personally I think if you were 100% normal on a bunch of weird criteria you'd actually be a freak.

Via J-Walk Blog

Fake Art or is it?

This is a pretty cool scam really, a bogus artist goes into major art galleries around the world and plants his own art in secluded galleries and locations. I imagine if you framed it properly and made it look pretty realistic it would take a hell of a long time for a curator to notice. Imagine how many galleries might have an interesting piece stashed away that they never even put up. Now this gives me some ideas of my own, I'm heading down to the national gallery and removing that damned plain white painting and replacing it with some real art.

Leonard Nimoy should eat more salsa!

I agree that Leonard Nimoy should eat more salsa, I mean seriously how is he surviving on only 8000 pounds of salsa a day. The leonard nimoy should eat more salsa site has conducted a thorough scientific survey showing how eating more salsa will definitely benefit leonard nimoy and all of man kind. God the world is filled with some just plain ridiculous crap.

Mechwarrior Lives

I dunno if this crazy robot is inspired by mechwarrior or if the crazy Japanese who designed it were just drunk on their own sense of power but this extremely slow walking death robot doesn't seem to have as much going for it as the six legged one a couple of weeks ago. It would also be a hell of a lot more susceptable to the string wrapped around the leg take down method and also be prone to falling over in high wind due to the ridiculous body shape. Still its a pretty cool idea.

ps. i'll find my frog

Are you looking for a frog?? Maybe his name is Hopkin Green Frog, well if so here is some high quality (and not so high quality) photochop of Terry's lost frog poster. Its pretty amusing and just another of those internet phenomena thingees.

Thanks Mykl

A pub that looks like drunk!

I couldn't find a site in English that talks about this crazy pub, but here are some pretty cool drunken pub pictures. It looks like its located somewhere in Europe but who can say for sure. All I know is that if I was drinking in here and stumbled outside it would look pretty freaky.



Thanks Ingrid!

Quirky Japan

On my recent trip to Japan this site of quirky japanese stuff would've definitely come in handy. I mean everybody wants to get off the beaten track and meet all those strange people you've heard about and see all the really strange museums and things. It tells you how to go see early morning sumo practice along with a whole bunch of other stuff. I wish I'd seen some sumo when in Japan but its not as easy as you might think.

Road Test: SmarTruck III

Those who regularly read this fine blog may in fact already have heard about the smart truck iii which I shamelessly plugged almost a year ago. Well finally the truck can be seen!! Yahoo has an article about some asian defence trade show where the Smarttruck is the star but I wanted more!!! So here is a Road Test which tries out the truck. Mmmm imagine driving over a field of small leprachauns in this sucker.

Pope Caption Contest

Inspired by this picture...(Thanks Michael!)


Comes the pope caption contest. The goons on email have already contributed the following entries so feel free to leave more in the comments. Some of them are pure gold. The winner of the contest wins some bodgy prize (yet to be determined) donated by Michael since he was the one who came up with the idea.

Oh God! My urinary tract!! (Mykl)
My eyes! Zee goggles do nothing!! (Mykl)
YEEEEEEAAAAAAARRRRRRRGHGGGHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (in the style of Howard Dean) (Patrick)
Noooo! Pope reveals new pope will legalise contraception. (Lasonovich)
Pope JPII after reading The Da Vinci Code (Dan)
I feel good!! I knew that I would now, HEEEY!! (Mykl)
My god patrick smells! (Mark)
I'll never join yoooooou!!!!! (Patrick)
That isn't my nasal cavity! It aint a feedin tube neither....... (Patrick)
What do you mean I missed the early bird special at the Vatican cafeteria... NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO? (Mark)
Slower...slower...yeah thats good...yeah faster now...faster...yes...yes!! OH SWEET JESUS PRAISE THE LORD (Mykl)
I want a lolly pop...... (Patrick)
Pope releases 30 years of built up flatulence (Lasonovich)
I did it myyyyyyyyyy WAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYY!!!! (Mykl)
Pope accidentally sits on his Pope hat (Mykl)
Papal revelation: Muhammed was right. (Patrick)
Poland loses the World Cup final to Azerbaijan. (Dan)
Vatican City Olympic Greco-Roman Wresting team performs demonstration bout (Patrick)
Pope first to try world's most sour gumball (Mykl)