Product designers in the UK have come up with a few experimental design ideas for electronic living room fixtures that use blood powered fuel cells to trap and create energy from common household pests.

The main one is this clock which traps and digests flies.


A video of their designs highlights other concepts, including a table that does the same thing with mice. I think that one's basically vaporware though.

Further proof to never underestimate the creativity or madness of cosplayers. This girl was having an ATHF themed birthday party and decided to go as Meatwad, with a certain approach. My question to you girls out there: Do you think you could wear a dress made out of bacon?0__o


It's bacon and salami wedged between two layers. Thick cotton underneath, and clear vinyl on top. Yes, she threw it out afterwards obviously.

More photos and her explanation of what the hell she was thinking at her site: Jia Jem

Coming soon! From the people who brought you such Asian cinematic classics as Tokyo Gore Police and Machine Girl comes the next great film in the time honored Japanese film genre of: "Oh God, I did not just see that. Tell me I did not just see that!?!?!"...

RoboGeisha!
I can already tell from the trailer that I am going to watch the crap out of this. The cheesier and more cartoonish the gore effects, the better. Trailer is behind the cut so nobody at work might click it by mistake.

Warning: film trailer is very, very, very, very, very, VERY NSFW!!
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Pirate Bay Goes Legit

Breaking news for all torrent fiends. Pirate Bay, the world's biggest P2P site, has just been bought by a Swedish company for $7.8 million with plans to refocus it into a legitimate business.

The highlight of the article for some of you though, look at the image that Game Spy actually chose to illustrate the story with...

This is probably the way RTS games seem to our elders today.



It's worth it to go back through and read the chat at the bottom.

From the BBC sketch comedy show, The Wrong Door. A meeting with... the boss.

This is so many kinds of fucked up, I don't even know where to begin.


Luxury yachts offer pirate hunting cruises

Luxury ocean liners in Russia are offering pirate hunting cruises aboard armed private yachts off the Somali coast. Wealthy punters pay £3,500 per day to patrol the most dangerous waters in the world hoping to be attacked by raiders.

When attacked, they retaliate with grenade launchers, machine guns and rocket launchers, reports Austrian business paper Wirtschaftsblatt.

Passengers, who can pay an extra £5 a day for an AK-47 machine gun and £7 for 100 rounds of ammo, are also protected by a squad of ex special forces troops.

The yachts travel from Djibouti in Somalia to Mombasa in Kenya.

The ships deliberately cruise close to the coast at a speed of just five nautical miles in an attempt to attract the interest of pirates.

"They are worse than the pirates," said Russian yachtsman Vladimir Mironov. "At least the pirates have the decency to take hostages, these people are just paying to commit murder," he continued.

You're probably gonna get linked to this eventually anyway, so might as well post it. Politics aside, it was incredibly well animated.



You can ignore the advertising at the end.

Wow. Just when you thought you'd seen everything. Scrolling through news sites, I came across The Heart Attack Grill in Chandler, AZ. It started off sounding like a cool place, then it sounded more and more disturbing the more I read.

Summation of the place:
-Scantily clad waitresses in nurse outfits.
-They offer the Single, Double, Trible, and Quadruple Bypass Burgers. Quadruple is 8,000 calories.
-Frys are cooked in pure lard.
-If you finish a Quadruple Bypass, a "nurse" will give you a wheelchair ride out to your car.
-Anyone over 350 pounds gets to eat for free. That's right, they give free ludicrously fattening novelty food to the morbidly obese.

Medicare must be sending this guy hatemail every single day.

Report on the place from CBS Sunday Morning:


The restaurant's website also has the owner's Twitter feed. In it he shares such brilliant gems like how the waitresses come in drunk or hung over.
http://www.heartattackgrill.com/

I'm not all that familiar with this commentator, but I'm really tempted to make that scream into a ringtone.

This is the greatest nature shot ever as far as I'm concerned.

Scientists in Germany have introduced the human speech gene into lab mice to see how and if it will alter their behavior at all.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17206-human-speech-gene-gives-mouse-a-baritone-squeak.html


Germany: leading the world in mad science since God knows when.

This video (under the cut for graphic imagery) was edited from a police training video from the 80's about surviving encounters with edged weapons. Watch it through without skipping and you're in for a treat. You'll see what I mean at the 2:00 mark.

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With all the different metal that I've come across, it's easy to get the impression that no matter your geek niche there's likely to be a band or subgenre out there that will have it for a theme. In a by-no-means complete list of types and gimmicks off the top of my head, you've got: Prog Metal, Power Metal, Thrash Metal, Speed Metal, Death Metal, Black Metal, Symphonic Metal, Fantasy Metal, Pagan Metal, Folk Metal, Wizard Metal, Mysticism Metal, EGL Metal, Lovecraftian Metal, Seamonster Metal, Goth Metal, Christian Metal, Viking Metal, Celtic Metal, Troll Metal, Swamp Metal, Acapella Metal, Space Metal, Cyber Metal, Space Marine Metal, Video Game Metal, Superhero Metal, Combat Metal, Clown Metal, Alcoholic Metal, and most recently.... Pirate Metal.

Yesss, Pirate Metal. I'm starting to see more pirate themed metal bands catching on, and it's quite amusing. It started with Running Wild in the 80's and a few other lesser known bands like Verbal Deception. Recently a band called Alestorm has come on to the scene and is just soaking up the pirate nerd genre by essentially being a nautical Dragonforce. I thought that was almost the height of the cheesiness with it... then I found out about SWASHBUCKLE. If Metalocalypse did a pirate episode, that'd be these guys to a T. They're hilarious and I hear they put on a hell of a live show.


But with all of that, where the hell is the ninja metal? It's a bum wrap man, after all of that you just gotta have the ninja metal in there to counter. You sadly just don't see all that many Asian themes incorporated into metal. It's the style that calls Europe its motherland.
Now I come to find out there's a spark lit by three wackos in Sweden who've watched one too many "Ask a Ninja" episodes and call themselves NINJA MAGIC. If you see their stuff you figure it's just three guys in their mom's basement. Oh hell no, they manage to book open air concerts with pyrotechnics! Eh, it's a start but I'll take it.

Gillette has an interactive website with advice and tips on body shaving for men.

http://www.gillette.com/en-US/#/grooming/bodyshaving/en-us/

Their advice for shaving your back: Get a girlfriend and have her do it...

How the hell do you manage that if you want to do it so you can get a girl in the first place? It's a veritable chicken and the egg scenario I tell ya.

So, the actor Chris Hemsworth: You all saw him recently as George Kirk in the beginning of the new Star Trek. Well, he's gonna be attached to another major fandom property. He's the one who's finally been tagged as the guy to play THOR!

http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/05/16/chris-hemsworth-is-thor/

From Dresden Codak

The demo will be this Saturday at noon. We're expecting just a small turn out since we haven't heard all that many people express interest.

But I need to know, was anyone actually wanting to drop by and check it out? If so, I need to know because it's not the easiest place to find right now and I need to make sure anyone who wants to get there, can get there. I think qaexl expressed interest in wanting to see it so that's why I'm wanting to know.

Disney has just released its first trailer for The Princess and the Frog, the first traditional 2D film it's put out in quite some time.



Since the villain in this one is a voodoo witchdoctor, maybe we'll get to see the first Disney animated zombie horde since The Black Cauldron. GLEEEEE!

Regardless, it's nice to see Disney return to the traditional style that we all grew up loving about its films.

The SNL Digital Shorts crew has released a new Mother's Day sequel to the "Dick in a Box" sketch:


http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/clips/digital-short-motherlover/1099491/


so, so, so very wrong...