They not only look neat, but tasty too – MmmMmm Sacrilicious!
You may have seen square watermelons and heart shaped cucumbers before [the correct name for this is Vegiforms], but neither is quite as appealing as the Buddha pear. They are made with a cool plastic mould that is attached while they are still little.
Just stay away from animal forms and PETA shouldn’t be a problem.
What makes this invention that much cooler is the fact that the entrepreneurs responsible [“for re-inventing the wheel”] are New Zealanders! The ‘Yike Bike‘ is said to revolutionise urban transport and was Designed and constructed in Christchurch:
The Yike Bike is a 10kg electric bicycle that folds up, tops out at 12.5 mph and can run for 10km after a 30 minute charge.
Inventor Grant Ryan said he hoped its European debut would spark interest ahead of a major trade fair later this week.
The Yike Bike has today been wooing Europeans on German streets as its developers try to sell their new mini-farthing cycle to the European market.
Watch this cheesy promo:
Cool, but isn’t it going to have the same problem that the Segway had – It’s too slow to be on the road and too fast to be on the pavement so it will be illegal either way to be considered a practical vehicle in the first place? Like the Segway it will be just another toy for the rich.
Not a revolutionary product, but its concept makes sense.
Comment off the 3News website:
Riding a normal bike is one thing but looking like a complete TWAT is another, If you rode one of these through one of the estates in say …Leeds – you’d be lucky to come away without having to remove the bike pump from rectum. No thanks …keep your stupid bike. – Dave
Would you ride one?
Do you remember Expialidocious? The poppin ‘Mary Poppins’ techno remix by Pogo? Well he’s cut-up another track using the classic family film “HOOK“, which by my opinion is a much better film then the previous:
This piece is composed of sounds from the Spielberg classic film ‘Hook’, a sine wave bass, and a few cymbals for extra spice. Enjoy!
I know some people hate, and I mean HATE PETER PAN! …Ahem …I mean hate this type of sampling. But even they have to admit that Mr Pogo has a talent.
A Glowing Dust Halo – I find this really cool:
When helicopters pass through dust storms (kicked up from the ground as the heli lands), contact of the particles with the rotating titanium/nickel blades produces either sparks or static electricity.
The phenomenon has been observed during combat operations in Afghanistan; Reporter and former Green Beret Michael Yon has documented the effect, and has named it after two U.K. soldiers who died there.
A tribute to Corporal Benjamin Kopp and Corporal Joseph Etchells.
You know what grinds me the wrong way about those good old fashioned rich people today? The way they [by they I mean self-indulgent cocks] got there riches, which is usually by inheritance of some sort.
I believe that if you haven’t pulled up your selves, felt elbow grease and sweat for your bread and butter then you have no real sense of value other than the notion that money is needed to buy shit.
“If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. But if you give him a fishing rod, you feed him for a lifetime”
Case in point – Meet Callie Rogers:
A WOMAN who won over £1.9 million ($3.67 million) as a teenager says she never should have been allowed to spend her fortune at such a young age.
More than enough to start building a great life for yourself. Right?
Callie Rogers, 22, won the lottery when she was 16 years old and proceeded to go on a “never-ending spending spree.”
The second-youngest British person to win lotto spent the money on booze, two boob jobs and almost $500,000 of cocaine.
So by Callie’s standards we see that no matter how much money you have, your societal value is determined solely by the size of your boobs. Nice.
“I honestly wish I’d never won the lottery money – and knowing what I know now I should have just given it all back to them.”
HA! Read Callie’s really really long sob-story at: NewsOfTheWorld (she’s 22 now so I don’t feel that sorry for her… should I?)
Wikipedia
40 years ago today, the first message was sent over ARPANET, the military computer network that would later become the Internet– and I’m pretty sure that those early net pioneers are currently shaking their heads in disbelief at what we’ve made of it since. – IHC
It’s about time, I was beginning to miss my weekly dose of vampire politics:
London artist Stuart Semple uses soap and helium to create floating foam clouds in the shape of smiley faces:
![Happy Clouds by Stuart Semple [have a nice day!]](https://darkintheboy.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/happy-clouds-by-stuart-semple.jpg "Happy Clouds by Stuart Semple [have a nice day!]")
The machine he uses makes a lighter-than-air foam using glycerin, food dye, and helium, and extrudes cakes of it through a die to create floating foam happy faces, which he releases into the air 2,000 at a time.
The world needs more random cool stuff like this.
Great but I wish it was longer. And I argue that Eeyore doesn’t have narcolepsy. He suffers from depression:
While Disney’s purchase of Marvel Entertainment surprised the WORLD this morning, how many people really saw it coming?
This is bad JUJU, and possibly a sign of the coming Apocalypse…
It might be the most unexpected, and biggest, news story of the year: Disney have bought Marvel Comics for $4 billion in stock and cash. Good news for shareholders, perhaps, but what does this mean for everyone else?
News broke early this morning that the Walt Disney Co. have acquired Marvel Entertainment in a move that, according to the official press release on the subject, “highlights Disney’s strategic focus on quality branded content, technological innovation and international expansion to build long-term shareholder value.”
The deal will give the House of Mouse the rights to all of Marvel’s characters, but current licensing deals with movie studios like Fox (X-Men) and Sony (Spider-Man) will stay in place, according to this morning’s investor conference call to discuss the sale. [io9]
“But all jokes aside, with Marvel’s new position in recent years as a creator of massive hero-themed PG-13 Hollywood blockbusters, and Disney’s desire to look for a slightly more mature audience, this seems like a perfect match.” – IHC
Hmm, an upside, a potential for a really interesting sequel to Kingdom Hearts.
I can totally relate:
Even though I’m a Necromancer…
More Graphs at this specialist Graph site: GraphJam
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