Archive for July, 2009

I warn you now, this post has a lot more artsy element than most that will ever appear on the site, but I really felt I had to share it anyway. Above is a picture painted by a 6 year old… I don’t know about you but when I was 6, my artwork looked very different.

Experts have said that the six-year-old’s atmospheric paintings, which began with harbour scenes and expanded to include rural vistas, animal portraits and landmarks, have perspective, shadow and reflections that demonstrate an ability well beyond his years.

Hit the jump for the full collection and a link to the news article…

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Yep the Japanese are at it again. This time they thought it would be sweet to build a robot out of an iPhone 3GS and then program the little bastard to do things… LIKE LEARN! (scroll to 0:43)
Am I seriously not getting through to people? I guess the good thing is that this robot couldn’t sneak up on you because its servo’s are louder than a heard of giraffes in a wood-chipper! The best part is that they use an iPhone to control the damn thing. Even if this single robot wasn’t smart enough to attack people, then a different robot could control every iPhone robot that exists! Prepare for the iPhone robot army of doom if this ever gets beyond prototype!

[via Dancing robot has an iPhone 3GS for a face @ boingboing]

Thanks to blueviva for the heads up on this one, who I really hope isn’t a robot just playing me…

A few years ago I starting hosting a javascript game on my members page here at WritheM and found that it was getting plenty of attention… I guess because its so addicting. Today I received a link to it from a co-worker challenging me that I couldn’t beat her score. I promptly beat her score and even sent her the above screenshot… That’ll learn them to send me links to my own website! *grin*
There are plenty of places this has appeared to be hosted on the internet… so give it a try if you havn’t already.

PS. If you get anything higher than 35 seconds, you’re a cheater. If you actually beat my score (without cheating), post your time in the comments.

Escapa!

I wonder what the reload time is like on this thing… If its short enough, it would be a sweet new paintball gun for me! Just load up 500 paintballs and shoot it at people on the otherside of the forest… “got ya!”. Spoiler Alert: the last house isn’t a house, its a wall. cheater.

This romantic comedy has to be one of the best in its genre’s that I have seen in a long while. Without giving it all away before the break, I felt it had the perfect mix of crude and wit. While still keeping true to the classic recipe for a romantic comedy, this movie also added a new element of unpredictability to it. I was left only guessing what Gerard Butler’s character was going to say next, as truly anything was made fair game! Full review after the break…

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okay wow… I just watched this video and it actually looks like the movie could be good. you’ll have to hit this link in order to get the real trailer, but the mashup video of Michael Jackson’s beat it and the tron trailer looks pretty sweet too, so I linked it above. (oh btw, the official trailer takes a while to load, so you may want to have it load up in another window while you watch the mash up video)

[via Tron Legacy trailer @ kottke]

*monotone voice* I have no idea what this is, or why I couldn’t look away. What I do know is that you should also watch it. You see I have been wrong all this time in thinking that Robots controlling us is wrong. More importantly though, our new masters will be kind. We should all obey. I denounce my hate for robots… yes, the robots will be just and fair with their judgement.

[via BIRDY NAM NAM - THE PARACHUTE ENDING from Steve Scott on Vimeo.]

Man its a busy news day. Maybe that has something with being that its my first day back on the interwebs. Oh how I’ve missed thee. In an effort to include all things awesome on the blog I figured what the hey, why not post another entry today (even though I’ve posted like 10 stories already). Here is one of the highlighted shots of Leif Olson’s, 15th hole, par 3, shot in one in the RBC Canadian Classic on Saturday. Total fluke if you ask me… this one time I got a hole in one on a par 5 while being chased by a dinosaur.

[via Leif Olson Hits Incredible Bank Shot Hole-In-One @ digg]

The crazy cooks over at Luxirare have outdone themselves this time. What happens when you mix my favourite dessert with a lollipop? Nothing short of genius! Check out the almost artistic pictures and a link to the full gallery after the break…

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So for anyone that lives under a rock and didn’t know, Comic-Con just wrapped up and the pictures have been developed. Figuratively that is… they were taken with a digital camera. Hit the jump for a few of my favourites and a link to the full gallery.

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