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Hours of enjoyment with this trippy little collection of 3D shockwave toys.

Play with the decatron

From the non-applicable site. Their other stuff looks nice, but I haven’t had a chance to play with it.

Tired of that day job? Ready for something different? Do you want to retrain for a high flying career of the future?

Then try Psitech the only university to offer advanced course in clairvoyance and precognition. That’s right, take a course in Technical Remote Viewing from the only school that has it on offer. The tutors are all ex-CIA and well trained by governemt psychic operatives. You get your money’s worth here.

City Creator is just about the coolest thing I’ve seen on the web since sodaplay. Build your own little isometric eboy/netbaby style city, complete with little people. Like simcity only without the sim… so just city I suppose… but it’s much more exciting than that… it has transparent trasport tubes, you can’t get more exciting than that.

Fortnum and Mason had better watch out! Its online gift service will be in the shadows. Now it is possible to send your friends who live in Ethiopia a tribute in the form of a sheep (choose from three sizes) and a chocolate cake or any other kind of sheep/food combo within reason.
My question is, how do they get the sheep to stay quiet and all nicely gift wrapped?

Robot Teaches Itself Flying Skills in Three Hours. On the way tries cheating, uses it’s balsa wood wings to stand and then climb nearby boxes… but those wacky swedish techies just tell it off and it eventually learns how to flap it’s wings. It still doesn’t get off the ground becasuse it’s engine is too heavy.

Reminds me of the little flying microbots that were made in Japan a few years ago. The japanese scientists had found that the batteries needed to supply the power to these things were too heavy, so they just made an enourmous electric field and let the little insect like robots to fly around inside the field.

“Researchers” at Cambridge university play dance music to mice on speed. Shock! Horror! Some of them died after getting down to some Prodigy. They weren’t let into the little chill out rooms, and all the water taps in the toilets were hot. To set this all in perspective some other mice were forced to listen to Bach, on speed too. Well… they died too.

Who knows what sort of music mice get into and what they would listen to by choice whilst doing class A’s.

Surgeon General’s warning: Being a geek may harm your unborn child.

This is what science is all about. Grafting testicles onto mice. Wow, this means I could have my man-marbles carried around by my own personal rodent. But I do think it would look just a little bit funny having a lab rat with a scrotum hanging off it crawling around inside my trousers… but if that’s the way of the future then so be it.

Great, but longish Wired article about new advances in bionic vision. Still cant see through walls or let you see naked women, but does make you look very borg-like. I love the description of the skull jacks.

It doesn’t get more rock and roll than this. Check out Maurice Bennett, Toast Artist and collector of Crown Lynn pottery.

I’m heading back to familiar shores with a pound of butter in my pocket.