"Vaporizing sawdust and corn stalks yields a versatile petroleum stand-in called bio-oil. The product could help sate the world's dependence on black gold." Wired: Grow Your Own Oil, U.S.

It's not just science fiction anymore: the first "vertical takeoff and landing" (VTOL) Vehicle has landed. Traffic will never be the same again.

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Roy: Yeah, you do know how a button works, don't you? No, not on clothes. No, there you go, I just heard it come on. No, that's the music you hear when it comes on. No, that's the music you hear when... I'm sorry, are you from the past?"

Shirts for the IT Crowd

Via boingboing

Robot Football, great fun for the whole family! Battle of the Aibos, Clash of the Transformers, machine vs. machine. Robocup 2006 (14th - 2oth of June)

Lots of Rocky-toys, but the best part is that you can get plastic meat as a sparring partner.

Look, A real Transformer (video)! They're gonna make more and then they take over the world!

Is it possible to make a living off Japanese Subculture?

Don't know, but this is a really cool blog on japanese pop culture.

"Lego built a global empire out of little plastic blocks, then conquered the wired world with a robot kit called Mindstorms. So when the time came for an upgrade, they turned to their obsessed fans - and rewrote the rules of the innovation game."

Big story in the new issue of Wired!

Brauchen wir alle unbedingt ganz schnell

John Travolta was at a McDonalds in Israel

The site for the enquiring mind. With optical illusions, scientific toys, visual effects, and even a little magic.

No blogger should leave home without this! You never know when you might need that mini glitter gel pen or or the confetti flowers. Via Gothamist.

Yo!

"Half of all children aged four don't know their own name - but two thirds of three-year-olds can recognise the McDonald's golden arches. Jonathan Freedland investigates the multi-million-pound industry intent on turning teenagers and toddlers alike into avaricious consumers." Very interesting story in The Guardian

"Japanese toilets are something very special. Everything is raised automatically, the seat is heated and there's even a small Karcher at 180bar (ok, maybe not 180, but it's powerful) for the more intimate parts. And now there is an SD slot and an MP3 player!!!(...) We have a small video that explains how it works"

Und? Wer hat's gefunden?

Jetzt zuschlagen:

"Zu dem Affen gehören Kompressor und Hydraulikpumpe, eine Beschallungsanlage und programmierbare Steuerung neuester Bauart. (Chiptechnik)

Es handelt sich hierbei um die größte bewegliche Figur, die jemals in Deutschland gebaut worden ist."

YES!!! Von pathosfm gesteckt.

Imac mit Fernbedienung und Filmpod! Fehlen nur noch das Apple-Sofa und die Apple-Chips!

"Apple hat nicht einfach Kunden, sondern fanatische Gefolgsleute. Menschen, die sich das Firmenlogo eintätowieren lassen oder gar ihr Baby "Apple" taufen, wie die iPod-Enthusiastin Gwyneth Paltrow." (Stern)

"Apple kündigte eine Kooperation mit dem US-Fernsehsender ABC an, der zum Disney-Konzern gehört. Im Online-Filmverkauf sollen Episoden erfolgreicher US-Fernsehserien, wie "Desperate Housewives", für 1,99 Dollar (1,70 Euro) je Folge angeboten werden."

Kabelfensehen ist Geschichte!

Remember the time when toys had nothing to do with movies and they were simply toys?

"BERLIN (Reuters) - A German inventor said he has developed a method to produce crude oil products from waste that he believes can be an answer to the soaring costs of fuel, but denied a German newspaper story implying he also used dead cats.(...) 'Bild' on Tuesday wrote a headline: 'German inventor can turn cats into fuel -- for a tank he needs 20 cats.' The paper on Wednesday followed up with a story entitled: 'Can you really make fuel out of cats?'"

"The woman traveler stops by the security checkpoint. After placing her luggage on the screening machine, the airport employee checks her baggage. The traveler hands her spare change and watch to the security guard and proceeds through the metal detector. With no time to spare, she picks up her luggage and hurries to board her flight!

WARNING: Choking Hazard - Small parts. Not for children under 3 years."

-> amazon.com

"Hufu is the name of a tofu-based product designed to resemble the taste of human flesh. Billed as the "Healthy Human Flesh Alternative", it's designed to provide connoisseurs of people-eaters with a legal way to please their palates. The Hufu website provides a variety of recipes that originally called for human flesh, but now uses hufu as a replacement.

So what does human flesh taste like? According to the website: If you've never had human flesh before, think of the taste and texture of beef, except a little sweeter in taste and a little softer in texture. Contrary to popular belief, people do not taste like pork or chicken."

Copied from junkfoodblog.com!

Get the t-shirt at surrendermartha.com! Lots of other fun designs.

"Maybe they should have a toilet paper museum. Would you like that? So we can see all the toilet paper advancements down through the ages. Toilet paper in the Crusades. The development of the perforation. The first six-pack. "

• Jerry Seinfeld

I'm not quite sure whether I understand this article at popmatters.com! I might be too old for that drug called videogame!

Männer! Geschenk für Geburtstag, Weihnachten oder nur so für die Freundin? Also, die Damen stehen ja immer nicht so auf dicke Geldbeutel in der Disco und ziehen für da möglichst kleines Sturmgepäck vor. Also, Scheine, Kondom, Briefchen eventuell und das wars. Die bekannte und beliebte Designerin Anna Rahaa schafft da seit einiger Zeit erfolgreich Abhilfe. Jedes Exemplar ist handgemacht aus absolut reißfestem Material irgendwelcher Reise-Materialien, die die Globetrotterin Rahaa auf ihren ausgedehnten Weltreisen irgendwo einsammelt.

Jeder Geldbeutel ein Einzelstück	 
Klettverschluss	 
diverse Papiermotive mit Klebefolie bezogen	 
passend für Urlaub, Sport oder in die kleine Handtasche.	 

Jeder Geldbeutel kostet 9 Euro plus Versand (2 Euro) Exklusiv im Internetz bei Anna Rahaa ihre Website

Unter Berliner Szenehühnern der letzte Schrei!

" "...macht klug und stark." Shopblogger hat's gefunden.

"Attention! Videogames are a cost-effective investment for the US Army. The military spent $12 million making America's Army as a PR ploy to get kids playing soldier (for free!) again. Now the teen-rated first-person shooter has become so popular - 5 million PC users are playing for a combined 100,000 hours a day - that the Feds are cashing in and spinning it off. The Army has licensed the franchise to Ubisoft, which will release America's Army: Rise of a Soldier for Xbox and PS2 ($50) in August, and to indie toymaker Radioactive Clown, which is selling action figures ($13).

And the game is so realistic that other branches of the military are using it for training lessons.

Operation Spin-Off

Secret Service They can't shut down the White House to train, so the Secret Service used tech from the America's Army PC game to create a 3-D replica of the building for its agents to run drills in.

Navy Fire Support Overcoming the infamous rivalry between military branches, the Office of Naval Research developed an application with the A.A. game software to demo naval gunfire techniques.

Talon Robots The Army's Future Applications team is using the A.A. technology to put together a virtual training device for bomb-disposal bots being used in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Crows Turret Want to play with a remote-controlled machine gun turret for Humvees? After troops get this A.A.-based trainer, it will be added to the free consumer version (as will the Talon tutorial).

• John Gaudiosi (Wired)

Antiwear has some really cool shirts for the summer!