The Somewhat Ambitious

If you recall, a few weeks back I basically blew my load on the Breakfast Show over the Back to the Future car, which was for sale at the time. In what may be an equally awesome piece of nerddom come to life, the intrepid Daniel Deutsch has MADE LUKE SKYWALKER’S LANDSPEEDER. It has a [...]

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Chinese artist Liu Bolin has a new exhibit, focussing on a fairly niche (and brilliant) type of art: camoflage art. Bolin literally paints himself into his environment, mimicking humans propensity to let themselves bleed into their social mileu to survive, shedding any kind of innate ‘humanness’ in the process (take THAT, minor in Art theory). [...]

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I don’t think I’ve ever wanted a gadget quite this badly. The Draganfly UAV, which looks like a cutter from Half Life 2, is actually a heli-cam. This is apparently the X6 model, and the carbon body allows it to zip around for 30 minutes, in the face of up to 18 miles an hour [...]

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Fun fact: Michael Keaton nestled his snug, latex-covered ass in one of five Batmobiles created for the 1989 Batman movie.
Funner fact: One of these Batmobiles is up for snap auction at Ebay RIGHT NOW.
Fun Conclusion: You have a chance of nestling your (possibly) snug ass in the same Batmobile ass groove as Michael Keaton/Batman.
Fun note: [...]

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In a surprising piece of news, scientists have used Google Earth satellite images to show that that herds of cattle tend to face in the north-south direction of Earth’s magnetic lines. Apparently the animals have a strange innate sense for direction, functioning almost as natural compasses. Everyone is acting surprised, but I can’t even count [...]

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This morning on the Breakfast Show, I discussed:
- The moustache pint glass, and how using one to conceal a real moustache is a true mind fuck.
- How the invisibility cloak will revolutionise mischievious seamstresses, as further proof that when Lindsay sets me homework, I do it.
- The new earth-bound Borg Sphere, which is less a [...]

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Remember to listen to the Triple J Breakfast Show tomorrow morning! I’ll be blathering about all manner of bizarre shit, including (but not restricted to) bigfoot, invisibility cloaks, the new Star Trek film, Space Invaders, and how to travel through time using naught but a hairpin and a wish.* If you want to listen to [...]

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I was recently perusing the Wowwiki article on Quilboar, a hostile race which populates a pocket of Kalimdor in World of Warcraft. let it never be said the developers don’t let real-world parallels creep in…
“The quilboar are a scattered people. After centuries of aggression against the tauren, the centaur, and any other species that stood [...]

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A little while ago, J.K.Rowling announced she’d hand-written several editions of Beedle the Bard, the same book of fairy-tales Albus Dumbledore gave to Hermoine. Photos were released of the hand-written volume, esconsced in Moroccan leather, with pages hewn from the balls of Zeus himself (as far as I know). This bad-boy was fetching gargantuan prices [...]

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THE WRATH OF THE LICH KING TRAILER IS OUT.
I won’t sully this moment with needless banter, just head to this link and watch it. Jonny, of Archaeus, recommended watching the trailer without pants. And I wholeheartedly concur.*
/Paul
*Concur comes from the latin Concurus, which literally translates as “to watch with no pants”.

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