good Robot snake climbs real tree [youtube 8VLjDjXzTiU] CMU’s Biorobotics Lab have build a modular robotic snake. It can climb trees and spy on you. Air penguins, Robotuna, and now this? The robot uprising may have already started. via Singularity Hub Update: Oh brilliant, they're letting robots take over the hospitals. That will
good The form is strong in this one. Here's Darth Vader performing the 42 move Yang style sword form of Tai Chi Chuan. As you might expect, he's actually pretty good.
science Scientists kill supercute Tasmanian devils with face cancer. These cute little beasties are biting each other and getting face cancer in the process. Cedric appeared to have natural immunity, so scientists at U. Tasmania deliberately infected him. Sadly, he wasn't immune so they put him down. But they're hoping he hasn't died
good tommorow's meme tooday OPPS - Very Demotivational - The Demotivational Posters Blog credit to bigmoney
good A skill skull made of brains. A couple of years ago Noah Scalin decided to make a years worth of skull artworks. That's 365 days of skulls. If you've got the time, it's worth looking through the whole project because it is an artwork in its own right. Needless to
good The country where I quite want to be. Once again Finland comes first in the annual slightly silly game of which country is the best. This time around Newsweek have produced a neat little interactive infographic to summarise all the rankings. Countries are ranked on five dimensions (education, health, quality of life, economics and politics) These numbers are
good Joggin' Dijon The great thing about joggin' in a place you don't know is that you don't know where you are going so you don't worry so much about how far you've run and you have lots of new scenery to distract you.
good PostSecret PostSecret is my new favourite blog. Not that my puny clicks will add much to the354,708,351 they already have. Which makes me realise that this is yet another meme that i arrived late for. Or maybe, I came early and have conveniently forgotten the fact. Anyway, I'
good Steady on, old chap. Paste some of your writing into the box on this site and they'll tell you which author your style or vocabluary most resembles. It's very frustrating that they don't give any details of how they decide it or what stats they are performing. And
good Three out. Of three. [caption id="attachment_982" align="aligncenter" width="640" caption="~Nadja ~Max & ~Tessa\'s room"] [/caption] Who needs an octopus to demonstrate publication bias? The door of my spare room has pretty good track record so far. Although, it is more
images FAILE goes Monumental in Lisboa I don't know the story behind this ruined remixed monument by FAILE in Lisbon but it is utterly fantastic. more here: DFLEKTOR blog » Blog Archive » FAILE Lisboa.
video Sharktopus Syfy's new made for TV film.. the title tells you almost everything you need to know. The only question that remains... Is sharktopus psychic? via urlesque
good It's not funny but grudgingly engaging. I've never laughed at the "antics" of Noel Edmunds, Jeremy Beadle and all the other Candid Camera cunning stunts. Antics are all very well when it's Tom and Jerry or other cartoons but i've always felt very uncomfortable with any smug twat
images Sad but happy! So it turns out there was a more complicated version of the happiness flowchart Path to happiness gets complicated and confusing I will pass, thank you. I am pretty good at being happy. I think every year of my life has been happier than the last and long may this
psycho Horizontal version of the leaning tower illusion The leaning tower illusion won the VSS Illusion of the year contest in 2007. Below is horizontal version of the same thing. These two photo's are completely identical.. Bloody hell, can’t believe that these are the same… « Richard Wiseman's Blog. Here's the explanation
good Alan Watts on the meaning of life Alan 'The way of zen' Watts on life as animated by Matt "South" Stone and Trey "Park" Parker [youtube WGoTmNU_5A0] via Richard Wiseman and Stephen Long's Blog.
good Oystercatcher babies learn like other babies. Oystercatchers are an example of evolution NOT solving a complex behavioral problem by pre-programming neural circuits at a fine level of detail. This conforms to what we know about how brains develop (Deacon 1997). It is very difficult or impossible to pre-program complex cortical functions such as language, general intelligence,
bad Break-up or breakdown? You decide! Here is the transcript on my text-messages yesterday. These were all from me to Tessa and only one of them got a reply (between 22:11 and 0:38) unfortunately I've lost it. During the day I called and wasn't answered numerous times so I left
good Flowchart to lifelong happiness I quite agree. "No", "Yes", "I know" Flowchart to lifelong happiness.
good Dinosaur Comics and no misstake Dinosaur Comics is my favorite web comic. Imagine Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes at twenty-six rather than six, and as a tyrannosaurus rex rather than a Calvinosaurus . Dinosaur Comics -awesome fun times!.
