Cats Are So Weird

Oh! Oh! Oh!

If I ever make it to the San Diego Comic Con, I'm fairly certain I'll need to seek medical attention for an erection lasting longer than four hours.

Peek Inside Tesla's Robotic Factory

Nerdgasm!

Suggested Reading for Bastards at the Beach

"The story, in short," Ellison concluded, "spanned all of time and all of space, with a moral and ethical problem." According to Ellison, the assembled executives, including Roddenberry, listened intently, before Barry Trabulus mentioned that he had been reading Erich von Daniken's Chariots of the Gods, and wondered whether the Mayan civilization might be included. Ellison pointed out that there were no Mayans at the dawn of time, to which Trabulus rejoined that no one would know the difference. "I'm going to know the difference," Ellison exploded. "So Trabulus got very uptight and said he liked Mayans a lot and why didn't I do it if I wanted to write this picture." Ellison said. "So I said, 'I'm a writer. I don't know what the fuck you are!' And I got up and walked out. And that was the end of my association with the Star Trek movie."




Currently enjoying this volume. The chapter on Watchmen is lovely.

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmaybe

New Guillermo del Toro flick coming soon.  Robots and monsters?  Yes, please.

Still Shopping For My Xmas Present?

Look no further ...

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Parts Is Parts

I know you guys are all trying to figure out what to get me for Kwanzaa ... my wish list includes this Tom Servo replica! Full Kit available on eBay.

Nerdgasm!

Star Wars, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost? Yes, please.

This. Is. Awesome.

From A.V. Club:

About a month ago, a YouTube clip of a glorious CGI clusterfuck from the Indian movie Enthiran started circulating the Internet, racking up several million views from people enthralled by this strange movie featuring a paunchy, Elvis-looking actor multiplying into a shape-shifting mass of robots and causing massive, hilarious destruction.

But Enthiran is more than just an accidental viral hit: That paunchy guy is Rajinikanth, the biggest Indian movie star (he’s actually billed as “SUPERSTAR Rajni” in his movies) and the second highest-paid actor in Asia after Jackie Chan. His co-star in Enthiran is a former Miss World, and probably the only Indian film star recognizable to American audiences, Aishwarya Rai. Enthiran is the most expensive (around $38 million U.S.) and highest-grossing (roughly $82 million U.S) film in Indian history. Those special effects were done by Stan Winston Studios (of Jurassic Park, Aliens, Terminator, and more) and Industrial Light And Magic. And the music was composed by Academy Award-winning composer A.R. Rahman. This isn’t just some random Indian movie that happened to stumble into the American consciousness; it’s the Indian blockbuster, essentially the Avatar of Tamil cinema (often referred to as “Kollywood,” the South Indian cousin of Bollywood). And yet most Western audiences are only familiar with it through a 10-minute YouTube clip they guffawed at with coworkers over lunch one day.

Full article (and more clips) here.

CADIE

If you haven't spend a good chunk of your day checking out Google's new AI Cadie, then it has sadly been wasted. I encourage you to participate in this historic moment in search engine technology. Cadie has already built some custom Google applications, like the intelligent email answering app, and a document fixer that goes miles beyond spell-check.

Rocks Like Robots

If DEVO can produce a new album that consistently sounds like this, I'm in. This, by the way, is a single from last year sometime ("Watch Us Work It"), featured in a series of commercials for Dell.

Fun For Seconds

It's Letters, today's time waster. Courtesy of Download Squad.

Try to spell something while about 30 other visitors steal your letters.

First Music Video With No Cameras

Radiohead, naturally.

Two technologies were used to capture 3D images: Geometric Informatics and Velodyne LIDAR. Geometric Informatics scanning systems produce structured light to capture 3D images up close, while a Velodyne Lidar system that uses multiple lasers is used to capture large environments such as landscapes. In this video, 64 lasers rotating and shooting in a 360 degree radius 900 times per minute produced all the exterior scenes.

Lively

Lively is a new virtual world from our masters at Google. According to the AP:

The Mountain View-based company unveiled a free service Tuesday in which three-dimensional software enables people to congregate in electronic rooms and other computer-manufactured versions of real life. The service, called "Lively," represents Google's answer to a 5-year-old site, Second Life, where people deploy animated alter egos known as avatars to navigate through virtual reality.

The difference between this and Second Life is that Lively is free (don't know if you can 'buy' stuff), and it can be integrated in to social networking sites like Facebook. Naturally, sexual content is already starting to pop up. Geek out!

Introducing The Hip, Now Sounds Of ROBOTBOY

From ROBOTBOY's official bio:

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Best Long Distance Acceptance Speech Ever?

So Andy, who is Russell Brand? As you are the British bastard, I turn to you.

There We Go!

More BigDog Footage Found!

Truly amazing.

Boston Dynamics BigDog Robot Is Creepy

Carries a payload of 340 pounds and can right itself when it slips on ice ... or is kicked ...