This quite literally mesmerised me. I don’t know why.
Category: Curiosities
Samurai slices flying BB gun pellet…
This is impressive.
I’ve featured this guy slicing a baseball before.
Here’s a Japanese TV show segment featuring his mad skillz. I like the bit where he cuts a soccer ball in half.
No matter how you slice it, playing with swords is cool…
Savour this: Pizza Math is deep…
Unequivocal proof that pizza is both delicious and a learning aid.
Via BoingBoing.
There’s a very similar shirt available on ThinkGeek…
Coming soon to bad sports coverage near you: Ball Cam
We’re not there yet – and this is quite a nifty little concept – but I can see this new technology going bad. Innovative camera work at sporting events is one of my pet peeves. I want to see the action from a good angle, not from on the ground behind the in goal, or on some floating camera hovering at odd points in the stadium. And videos coming from within the ball are obviously the next logical progression now that we have a panoramic ball camera containing 36 lenses.
Panorama: Guy takes artsy photos of fry pans
Happiness is a well used fry pan. Amongst other things. These look like planets.
They’re from a little artsy project titled “devour” by a guy named Christopher Jonassen. He included this Sartre quote on the page:
“To eat is to appropriate by destruction”. – Jean-Paul Sartre (French existentialist and writer, 1905-1980)”
The eyes have it…
How many of these cartoon eyes can you identify?
You can get a poster of this design by Yoni Alter. And there’s an interactive cheat guide here…
Post-it Mario Bros
Got an office morale problem? Solve it with a little team bonding exercise involving post-it notes and a dash of 8-bit inspired enthusiasm.
Staff from a Seattle Digital Solutions company called Filter put this window homage to the original Super Mario Bros together in their spare time. It’s the entirety of level 1-1.
Apparently it’s the escalation of some sort of inter-office post-it tit-for-tat.
Tumblrweed: Teenage Mutant Ninja Noses
Heroes on your half face. Teenage Mutant Ninja Noses. This is brilliant. I’d never noticed that the human nose looks like a turtle head before. My. Mind. Blown.
Thanks to my dad for emailing me this, and Pete for sending me the tip via Facebook.
Angry Birds in Real Life (for angry bird watchers)
Do you have any idea how much the bird watching industry is worth world wide annually? No. Well. It’s billions. More than $36 billion in the U.S alone. Angry Bird watching is a little known subset involving smart phones, iDevices, and the internet. Merge the two and you’d be on some sort of cash cow. Or cash crow. Here’s an example of what the Angry Birds might look like in real life.
Phoenix sinking: Real life super hero arrested, unmasked…
Phoenix Jones has been featured here before. He’s a Real Life Super Hero in Seattle. This bio is fun reading.
He was arrested last night for assault (he claims he was breaking up a fight with pepper spray). Sadly, despite speculation, he is not Mark Driscoll. He is, however, an MMA fighter named Benjamin Fodor.
Here’s one of his four fights, on YouTube (contains mixed martial arts).
I can’t figure out how he gets his hair in the costume…
Expand your LEGO horizons with Rebrickable
I have no idea what set numbers our family’s lego collection contains. But as I start investing in a Lego collection for my own children (it’s not too early, right?) I’ll be keeping tabs on Rebrickable – which calculates what sets you can form using the sets you own. It’s like getting a whole new spaceship. You can also get schematics for user generated constructions.
You can make stuff like this Lego Gundam (a Japanese transformer type robot). You’ll need 501 pieces, spread across 155 varieties of part. But it looks doable.
Boys and their toys… a composite picture of American toy guns since 1800
Here’s what you get if you, or in this case, if a guy named Christopher Baker, collect all the patent pictures labelled “toy gun” since 1800, and you put them in one picture. There’s a video of the picture being generated at the link.
Here are some of the patent images.
Build your own Bobblehead
The coolest thing about Hamish and Andy’s New York TV adventure was the traxedo. The second coolest thing was that they had their own bobble heads. Looking around the interwebs this seemed pretty expensive (over $100). But 1minime.com will (depending on postage costs) get you in under that mark.
Public Safety Announcement: Video game villains should be “edge” safe this season
Video game bad guys are definitionally stupid – they do the same thing all the time. For their longevity – this behaviour needs to stop.
From Dorkly.com