I don’t really understand anything in this ad but it’s got a talking dog (teddybear) but more even it features Quentin Tarantino. A crazy Tarantino in kimono and a talking dog.
It seems that the dog is some kind of iPod speaker or something like that, probably with TV reception in the land of the rising sun, but I would love to have a translation. Did Tarantino write the script or dialogue? Japan specialists, help me out!
Of course when going to ‘wash your hands’ a little distraction is always welcome and in these testing time for print media the distraction might not always be convenient. Posh gits among us visit the loo with their smartphone. Intellectuals take their e-reader with them and if you’re poor like me, you take your Wi-fi enabled laptop with you. Seriously, why should you ever be bothered to disconnect.
Of course if you still live in a wired era and don’t have the luxury of having the daily newspaper delivered to your door… tough as the Doctor says.
Fear not!
Origami toilet paper. I.kid.you.not.
So let’s quickly analyse how to proceed in the little room now. You sit down, tear paper off and then fold it to shape. Then what?
I hope for you that you made a stingray or an elephant and not a swan or giraffe. ;)
At $6 it’s rather expensive to wipe your bottom.
10,000 Drink straws were needed to make this chair and still it looks like it is not comfortable at all. According to designer Scott Jarvie it is a research piece passing comment on our disposable culture. I might prefer to dispose of straws instead of sitting in this chair.
Contrarily to the chair, I actually do like the straw Clutch light.
Source: Scott Jarvie.
Nerds united are all up in hoops about Google Wave’s live chat feature. I actually thought that it was interesting, fun and nice nostalgic touch to the oh so modern Wave.
Chatting on Wave is like talking to an overcurious mind reader. On a conventional IM, you only see what other people say once they hit Enter. (True, the IM program will tell your partner whether or not you’re typing, but this is too little information to get embarrassed about.) On Wave, every misspelling, half-formed sentence, and ill-advised stab at sarcasm is transmitted instantly to the other person. This behavior is so corrosive to normal conversation that you’d think it was some kind of bug. In fact, it’s a feature—indeed, it’s one of the Wave team’s proudest accomplishments. When Google first unveiled Wave this spring, the program’s inventors hailed real-time typing as a way to mimic real-life conversations online. Because you can see what your chat partner is trying to say before she’s finished saying it, you can start replying immediately, making conversations much faster, Wave’s proponents argue. In practice, though, live typing either slows conversations to a crawl or renders them anodyne. Because you’ve got to second-guess every word you put down, you find yourself agonizing over the keyboard. (Farhad Manjoo for Slate)
More than anything else, the live chat feature did not restrict me but made me feel happy, happy because I had already lived the Wave. Back in our days live chatting was really popular. We called it ICQ.
I hate to admit having discussed a similar concept with gamers years ago but am proud to tell you that none of them actually build a computer chair like this one. But things couldn’t last and someone had to do it at some point. This point apparently. Meet our Nerd of The Week [NotW].
If ever you thought it would be a good (cool?) plan to fart during surgery, you might want to reconsider your plan. At least this Danish inhabitant sees the positive in things and decided to sue the hospital for burning his genitals… after he farted. This week’s DotW.
Title really says it all. Being a fan of something is cool (can be), getting a tattoo of that can also be cool but in this particular case we go all WTF!
Who else than MSDN could publish this amazing but true story: IE8 safest browser. WUT? Fair enough if, but let’s still continue to hate IE nevertheless.
29 Year old Jeremiah Romero ended up in jail after a not so brilliant move. The man from Albuquerque receives the Dumbass of the week (DotW) title as a consolation.
Jeremiah was caught after he, and a still on the run female accomplice, stole 2 surveillance cameras from a community center. When trying to loosen one of the cameras, the camera snapped a mugshot of Jeremiah when falling of its support. Romero confessed to steal the camera and a second one some days before. Cameras, said to be worth $2100 haven’t been found yet.
21-Year-old builder Oliver Bellerby apparently knows how it is to enjoy the good stuff. The Yorkshire citizen saw some amazing things in the left-over greased after he just baked a burger.
I went back to the kitchen after having dinner to get a drink and I just saw it straight away – the face of Jesus.
My mate saw it too when I showed him. It blew us both away so we took a picture.
I do not know what inspires one in the first place to look for things in the grease. Once the burger has been eaten, unless returned via the same hole it went in, chances to find something in the left-over grease are rather slim. We can only assume that Oliver and his mate were having good times.
Guy plays all four Rock Band instruments on his own at the same time.
The legendary Waldorf-Astoria Steakhouse apparently didn’t like the visit of a German tourist and served him a little more than he asked for.
I had it in my mouth, chewed it and nearly swallowed it,” said Sanz-Claus. He adds, “This is so disgusting, I’ve felt sick ever since.”
This diner says he rinsed his mouth with brandy then went to the bathroom to vomit. He says the hotel then called an ambulance. Sanz-Claus claims the doctor in the emergency room cut the object in half and confirmed it was a used tampon.
Sanz-Claus says he has not been able to sleep or eat since the episode.
I am surprised he was not charged extra.
Definitely Dept. of WTF material. We are proud present you the iSaw, a USB-powered chainsaw for nerds. $59.95 available for pre-order now. Go waste your money.
☆ The new Spike Jonze's 'I'm here, the movie' now available online
☆ I know there are fans of coffee art among the frankylicious readers, so I thought I might as well post a link to it here. Even though I would not want to wait or have a barista make a lovely piece of art I would ruin by stirring it up. No, I never would waste any of the guests' time layering flavoured mocchas. Anyway, here you go : Art in My Coffee.
☆ The Sun thinks differently. Did I just link to The Sun?Screw that. Everybody move on now! Nothing to see here.
☆ Not everyone enjoys Christmas but of course that doesn't mean you have to go totally Dickensian about it. Instead, play some Whack-a-mole. On your iPhone. Read a review at AppleGazette.
☆ 1000 Celebrities and pop culture icons in 8-bit art. On your iPhone. At $2.99 a cool deal for 8-bit nerds, otherwise wasted money. 'Get it!', we say.
☆ If you are not a victim of geotardation, ie. if you live in the US of A, you can watch the complete Caprica pilot on SyFy (who's the moron who came up with that spelling?
☆ Interesting discovery and video: an octopus uses a coconut shell to hide under but also takes the shell with him when walking over the mud of the ocean. Coconuts as tools. Most interesting of all, this was not discovered or filmed by the BBC Life team.
☆ Go on, admit it! You also want one of these: 700mW green laser pointer. Abuse the occasion as they are 20% off and only $2.499 anymore! I wished I were rich.
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