An ingenious deep-fat fryer in Japan, where the boiling oil floats on top of the water of a functioning fish tank. The fish are fed by gobs of batter dropping through to the water, which in turn keeps the oil clean.
I think I’m obligated to wonder how long fish could survive if such a set [...]
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A photo-tutorial on an, um, unorthodox technique for making pancakes:
Let’s play “Follow the money!”
This is London - 10/03/2007
The psychiatrist who identified attention deficit disorder - the condition blamed for the bad behaviour of hundreds of thousands of children - has admitted that many may not really be ill.
Dr Robert Spitzer said that up to 30 per cent of youngsters classified as suffering from disruptive [...]
Don’t feed the trolls
The reason for the quietness around these parts lately has been the build up to, and aftermath of, Fable 2’s appearance at GDC. (Well, that and the usual chronic laziness on my part, of course.)
There are write-ups about the presentation here, here and here. A big video of the thing on Gamespy, a video interview [...]
Google Image Ripper is a front-end for Google’s image search, that bypasses the standard thumbnail view and instead displays all of the results at full size, with no extraneous crud on the screen.
LARP-ing has a lot to answer for…
BBC News - 06/03/2007
A man accused of a stealing underwear from a shop in a knifepoint raid believed he was a female elf at the time, Belfast Crown Court has heard.
Robert Boyd, 45, from Broadlands in Carrickfergus, is accused of holding up staff at the Orchid shop in Belfast [...]
Charlie Brooker has written a fantastic mobile phone review for the Guardian which neatly sums up the entire phone industry at the same time, entitled “My new mobile is lumbered with a bewildering array of unnecessary features aimed at idiots”
(But, beware! As good as the article is, reading more than a few of the readers [...]
A co-worker found this inspiring little image a while ago, and I’m reposting it here as a timely reminder that lateral thinking will get you a long way. Or possibly just to the end of old Lucasarts adventure games. I forget which.
Ah, Academia. Where else could you get paid for creating an avian-realdoll army?
The male sage-grouse, a chicken-like game bird, isn’t too picky about mates.
Researchers have observed the bird trying to woo unusual objects — even cow patties in the field.
So perhaps it’s no surprise that these males are duped by UC Davis researcher Gail Patricelli’s [...]
One of the following two videos is for real, while the other is a spoof. See if you can tell which is which: