Fetch

(YouTube link) Jerry doesn’t have to wait for anyone to throw the ball. He has a computerized ball-launcher he can reload himself! -via Digg

Owl Threat Response

(YouTube link) One owl has a repertoire of responses to different threats. He can make himself big, make himself small, or just ignore the enemy. Although he was in no real danger, I felt sorry for the little guy. -via Everlasting Blort

The Very Quotable Prince Philip: Not Exactly Prince Charming

The following is an article from Uncle John’s Supremely Satisfying Bathroom Reader Ever heard of Prince Philip? He’s the Duke of Edinburgh and husband of Queen Elizabeth II of England. About the only time he makes headline is when he, as one newspaper puts it, "uses his royal status ...

Korg DS-10: Emulate the Classic MS-10 Synth on the Nintendo DS

The Korg DS-10 is a cartridge for the Nintendo DS that turns the portable game device into a synthesized MS-10 synthesizer, including two synth engines, a drum machine, and a 16-step sequencer. You can punch in controls with three different interfaces, including an on-screen keyboard. And while you ...

Watch Nine Minutes Of Starcraft 2's Terrans [Clips]

Yes. More Starcraft 2 media. You can fit it in. Open up. Go on. Here comes the Terran Battlecwuiser! Open wide and say "aaaahhhhhhh".... As far as Starcraft 2 clips go, the Zerg are OK, I guess, but they're so alien. And insect-like. Eeeewwww. It's much nicer watching nine minutes of gameplay ...

Possessed: a documentary about hoarders

POSSESSED from Martin Hampton on Vimeo. Fascinating and beautifully-shot documentary that profiles four different hoarders. 'POSSESSED' enters the complicated worlds of four hoarders; people whose lives are dominated by their relationship to possessions. The film questions whether hoarding is a ...

Burning Safari

A close encounter of the dangerous kind, between an ape man and a tourist robot.

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Wrestling Champ Has No Limbs

As a young boy, Dustin Carter contracted a rare blood disease that ultimately claimed his limbs - all four of them. He grew into a straight "F" student, until one day, he discovered wrestling: Until eighth grade, when he found, of all things, wrestling. "I felt like at least he’d ...

A One-Way, One-Person Mission to Mars

Universe Today looks at the possibility of humans traveling to Mars. One of the major roadblocks to such a mission is arranging for a return flight. A one-way mission would eliminate a lot of research and expense, but is it ethical? Even though explorers in the past traveled, for example, to the south ...

Cat Ownership = Healthier Heart

Correlation doesn’t necessarily equal causality, but a new medical study reveals that cat owners have a lower incidence of heart attacks and strokes than do non-owners: Non-cat owners appear to have a 40 percent higher risk of dying from myocardial infarction than those who do have a cat, according ...

Climate Sciencist James Lovelock: We’re All Doomed

James Lovelock [wiki] is a climate scientist (he was the first to detect widespread presence of CFCs in the atmosphere) and a maverick (he proposed the Gaia Hypothesis, which proposes that earth, and everything living and non-living on it are part of a complex interacting system that can be though of ...

Mustache Dance

Mustache Dance from Casey Pugh on Vimeo. Celebrating the end of Whiskerino 2007 ( www.whiskerino.org/2007/ ) My beard: www.whiskerino.org/2007/caseypugh/ Cast: Casey Pugh

4 Month Pump

4 Month Pump from Chad Pugh on Vimeo. For all of Whiskerino, Bryan only took 19 photos! Cast: Chad Pugh, Bryan Pugh

Metal Gear Solid 4 Finally Has A Release Date [Playstation 3]

Word from Destination PlayStation, a retailers-only conference for all things PlayStation related, is that Metal Gear Solid 4 is coming to the PlayStation 3 on June 12, 2008. According to sources there now, the release of Kojima Productions action-stealth game will arrive on a Thursday, oddly enough. ...

Crackdown Team Debuts APB, The Counter-Strike of MMOs [Gdc08]

Dave Jones of Realtime Worlds wowed GDC audiences this week with his presentation "My First MMO", debuting the successor to the award winning Crackdown known as APB. APB, Jones explained, is a massively multiplayer online game without the grind, one that draws inspiration from Counter-Strike more than ...

Nine Inch Nails DLC Penetrates Rock Band [Rock Band]

Well it's not Still Alive time yet, but next week's Rock Band DLC is pretty damn sweet, especially for anyone who really enjoys alternating between singing and screaming. It's Nine Inch Nails week! The following tracks will be available for purchase next week: Nine Inch Nails - "March of the Pigs" (master) Nine ...

Star Wars Toys That Were Not to Be

Jason "ToyOtter" Geyer was a toy designer who got a chance to pitch Lucasfilm right before Star Wars: Episode I came out. Most of their ideas didn't make it to market, but the concepts they've scanned in and put online are hilarious. I can't believe Lucasfilm hasn't done a Jabba the Hutt beanbag.To ...

Alone in the Dark tech demo shows gameplay, actual enemies

Filed under: Action, Adventure Finally, the rumors that the latest chapter in the Alone in the Dark series would be completely devoid of all life have been squelched by a tech demo for the game, released today. Not only does the video show off the intriguing "Real World Rules" engine (not to be ...

No Gods or Kings: Objectivism in BioShock [Bioshock]

By: Brian Crecente The sunken city of Rapture, a world of art deco aesthetics, neon sales pitches and looming architecture, is home to more than just murderous splicers and lumbering Big Daddys, it's also a surprising breeding ground for introspection. BioShock may have been conceived as a study ...