January 2008
19 posts
WatchJawbone videos (explicit) a la Gizmodo
Video Games are Being Taxed? →
I was able to forgive New Mexico when they changed my area code. But this is a little ridiculous: the Sierra Club of New Mexico is proposing a 1% tax on video games in order to “fund programs aimed at giving school kids an outdoors education” (learn more on The Huffington Post). What’s really scary is what kind of precedent this might set. Videogamevoters.org has lots of other...
Guitar Zero is a band that has repurposed the... →
Guitar Zero is a band that has repurposed the Guitar Hero game controllers to make real music with them. Even better: they’ve posted the instructions so you can make your own. (thx, nick) (link)
A MacBook Air Parody that Goes One Better than... →
Gadget Lab’s Rob Beschizza has made himself a little piss-take of the MacBook Air. Curved corners—that’s an Ives-esque attention to detail you’ve got there— and a killer punchline. This one goes out to all the secret Luddites who read the Giz. [YouTube via Wired]
Target Tells a Blogger to Go Away →
Target to the blogosphere: you’re irrelevant.
Target Tells a Blogger to Go Away →
Target to the blogosphere: you’re irrelevant.
Information Ring →
The Information Ring concept by Hideaki Matsui holds your personal information and captures others’. By shaking hands with someone, you exchange your data with them - data that can be reviewed at a later date on a special card (why not your laptop?).
Hideaki Matsui
[via Yanko Design]
Invest In Great New Bands. Start A Record Label... →
Did you ever wish you could discover and help promote a great new band? Or just help support some of the great new music that’s created but just doesn’t have the connections or desire to sign with one of those big failing record labels? Now thanks to SliceThePie.com you can.
Can you hear a track and judge how successful it’s going to be?
Would you like to help finance artists and share in...
Watch well done work by Remyyy
Bleeding Edge: UFDs
Know Your UFDs
Ever noticed that USB Flash Drives have a ton of names? The list includes: USB Flash Drive Thumb Drive Jump Drive Cruzer TravelDrive Disgoamong others. What is the official name of these buggers? The de facto standard is the TLA UFD (ie the three letter acronym for ‘USB Flash Drive’). That’s right, jump drive can return to being a sci-fi method of traveling faster than the...
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Ass Blasters
Let’s not forget Tremors 2 with little graboid nymphs named ‘shreikers’ and Tremors 3 with the ‘ass blasters’. Wikipedia tells us that the ass blasters were modeled after the Bombardier beetle, which stores hydroquinone and hydrogen peroxide in its body. These chemicals exothermically react with one another, producing near boiling liquid that the beetle can spray in...
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Speaking of Asexual
take a look at the Hydra, which reproduces in a similar manner to graboids. This 10mm creature sits in freshwater ponds and eats small invertebrates like the Cyclops. eats But the most fascinating thing about hydras is they’re biologically immortal. That’s right, they’re one of the only animals that don’t age.
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“It is possible for banana slugs, while mating, to become stuck together. If a...”
– Wikipedia
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Graboid Reproduction
Tremors 2 indicates graboids are hermaphrodites, meaning the graboid has both sets of genitalia. This seems improbable since most hermaphrodites do not practice self-fertilization. A more likely scenario is parthenogenesis, where the progeny are born without fertilization by males. As a result, the entire population is female. This means that the albino graboid El Blanco should really be...
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Graboid Cousins
“…a faux scientific document written by the SciFi channel hypotheses [graboids] have a semi-rigid internal structure, similar to the internal cuttlebones of certain cephalopods, such as cuttlefish.” -Wikipedia It looks as though graboids are related to… Octopi? (It also looks as though New Zealand is a ripe candidate for graboid attacks.) That doesn’t make much...
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They're How Old?
Tremors 2 dates graboids as Precambrian life forms (up to 4500 million yrs old). Wait a minute… none of these creatures are big enough to feed a graboid. None of them have even evolved to land yet! Sci-fi channel to the rescue, informing the public that graboids more likely came from the Devonian period (~400 million yrs ago). New picture please. There, at least graboids have some...
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